1. McPherson’s Political History of the United States, p. 1.
2. McPherson’s Pol. Hist., pp. 389–399; “Parson” Brownlow’s Book, pp. 54, 159, 160; Lalor’s Cyclopedia of Political Science, Political Economy and United States History, Vol. III. p. 698.
3. Letters and State Papers of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II. p. 112. The edition of Nicolay and Hay is used throughout.
4. The Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee, p. 24.
5. More correctly, 301,056. Ibid.
6. The Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee, p. 32.
7. Ibid.
8. Thirty years before President Lincoln published his Emancipation Proclamation Great Britain abolished slavery throughout her colonies. Naturally this action was viewed in no friendly spirit by the slave interest in America, for it brought the free negro to the very door of the Southern States, and though it was regarded as a menace to the “peculiar institution,” it was not until a positive loss was sustained that any controversy arose with England. In October, 1841, the brig Creole, of Richmond, with a cargo of 135 slaves left Hampton Roads for New Orleans. The negroes, under Madison Washington, killed one of the owners, took possession of the vessel and steered her into the port of Nassau. There those slaves not expressly charged with murder were set at liberty, and though the administration demanded their surrender they were not given up. The experience of the Creole was not singular, several cases of a similar nature being recorded. These facts showed the danger of navigating the Bahama channel after 1833, and at least one reason for preferring the overland route down the Tennessee valley was an expectation of avoiding such accidents.—(See Wilson’s Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, Vol. I. pp. 443–444; Lalor’s Cyclopedia of Political Science, etc., Vol. I. pp. 709–710.)
9. Brownlow’s Book, p. 52.
10. The Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee, pp. 80–81.
11. Brownlow’s Book, p. 67.
12. Art. I. sec. 10, Constitution of the United States.
13. McPherson’s Pol. Hist., p. 5.
14. Misc. Doc. No. 55, H. of R., 1 Sess. 39th Cong., p. 5.
15. Why The Solid South? p. 170.
16. Cutt’s Conquest of California and New Mexico, p. 246.
17. Statesman’s Manual, Vol. IV. p. 1742.
18. Ibid.
19. The Lost Cause, p. 209.
20. Ann. Cycl., 1862, p. 763.
21. Life and Speeches of Andrew Johnson, pp. 451–456. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1866.
22. Life, Speeches, and Services of Andrew Johnson, pp. 101–104. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers.
23. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Andrew Johnson, pp. 76–80; Memoir by Frank Moore, pp. xxvi-xxvii in Life and Speeches of Andrew Johnson. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
24. Life of Andrew Johnson, pp. 98–101; Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers.
25. Ann. Cycl., 1863, p. 828.
26. Letters and State Papers of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II. p. 318.
27. Abraham Lincoln, A History by Nicolay & Hay, Vol. VIII. p. 440.
28. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. p. 405.
29. History of Abraham Lincoln, by Isaac N. Arnold, p. 303.
30. Letters and State Papers of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II. p. 408.
31. Ibid., p. 419.
32. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. p. 443.
33. Art. I. sec. 5, Constitution of the U. S.
34. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. pp. 443–444.
35. Ibid., p. 486.
36. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. p. 487.
37. Ibid., pp. 504–505.
38. Misc. Doc. No. 55, p. 5, H. of R., 1 Sess. 39th Cong.
39. Misc. Doc. No. 55, p. 9, H. of R., 1 Sess. 39th Cong.
40. Life of Andrew Johnson, pp. 159–160.
41. Life of Andrew Johnson, pp. 160–161. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1866.
42. McClure’s Lincoln and Men of War Times, pp. 106–108; Blaine’s Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. II. p. 7; Hamlin’s Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin, pp. 449–489 and 591–615.
43. McPherson’s Pol. Hist., pp. 438–439.
44. Ibid., p. 425.
45. Ibid., p. 441.
46. For a discussion of this subject see Chapter IX.
47. Ann. Cycl., 1861, p. 427.
48. McPherson’s Pol. Hist., p. 4n.
49. McPherson’s Pol. Hist., p. 25; Ann. Cycl., 1861, p. 428.
50. Ann. Cycl., 1861, p. 432.
51. Ibid.
52. Taylor’s Destruction and Reconstruction, pp. 102–103.
53. McPherson’s Pol. Hist., p. 1.
54. Ann. Cycl., 1863, p. 589.
55. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II., pp. 214–215; Ann. Cycl., 1862, p. 650.
56. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II., p. 216.
57. Ibid., pp. 217–218.
58. Ann. Cycl., 1863, p. 586.
59. Ann. Cycl., 1863, p. 586.
60. Ibid.
61. Ann. Cycl., 1863, p. 586.
62. Ann. Cycl., 1863, p. 587; Ibid., pp. 770–776. Scott’s Reconstruction During the Civil War, pp. 325–326, 328–331, 376.
63. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. p. 247.
64. Ibid.
65. Ibid., p. 255.
66. Globe, Part I., 3 Sess. 37th Cong., p. 835.
67. Globe, Part I., 3 Sess. 37th Cong., pp. 831–837, 1030–1036.
68. McPherson’s Pol. Hist., pp. 228–229.
69. Blaine’s Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. II. p. 39; Nicolay and Hay’s Lincoln, Vol. VIII. p. 419.
70. Ann. Cycl., 1863, p. 589.
71. N. & H., Vol. VIII. p. 420.
72. Ann. Cycl., 1863, p. 590; Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. p. 536.
73. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. p. 356.
74. Ibid., pp. 214–215.
75. Ibid., p. 356.
76. Taylor’s Destruction and Reconstruction, ch. x; also the general history of military operations in the Red River country.
77. Bulloch’s Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe, Vol. II. chs. i and ii.
78. N. & H., Vol. VIII. pp. 285–286; Conduct of the War, Vol. II. pp. 1–401 (passim).
79. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. p. 380.
80. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. p. 436.
81. Ann. Cycl., 1863, p. 591.
82. Ibid.
83. Ann. Cycl., 1863, pp. 591–592.
84. Globe, Part I., 1 Sess. 38th Cong., pp. 5–6.
85. Globe, Part I., 1 Sess. 38th Cong., pp. 411–415, 543–547.
87. Ann. Cycl., 1863, pp. 592–593.
88. Globe, Part I., 1 Sess. 38th Cong., p. 543.
89. Ann. Cycl., 1863, p. 590.
90. Ann. Cycl., 1863, p. 591.
91. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. pp. 458–459.
92. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. pp. 465–466.
93. N. & H., Vol. VIII. pp. 428–430.
94. Ibid., p. 469.
95. Ann. Cycl., 1863, p. 592.
96. Ann. Cycl., 1863, pp. 592–593.
97. Ann. Cycl., 1864, p. 476.
98. Ibid.
99. Ann. Cycl., 1864, p. 476.
100. N. & H., Vol. VIII. pp. 432–433.
101. Ann. Cycl., 1863, pp. 593–594.
102. Ann. Cycl., 1864, p. 477.
103. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. p. 496.
104. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. II. p. 40.
105. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. p. 498.
106. Ann. Cycl., 1864, p. 478.
107. Ibid.
108. Ann. Cycl., 1864, pp. 478–479.
109. Ibid.
110. Ibid., p. 479.
111. Ann. Cycl., 1864, p. 479.
112. Ibid.
113. Ann. Cycl., 1861, p. 22.
114. Ibid.
115. McPherson’s Pol. Hist., p. 4.
116. Ann. Cycl., 1861, p. 22.
117. Ibid.
118. Ibid., p. 23.
119. Ibid., pp. 23–24.
120. Ann. Cycl., 1861, p. 24.
121. Ibid.
122. Ann. Cycl., 1861, p. 24.
123. Ibid.
124. Ibid.
125. Ann. Cycl., 1861, p. 25.
126. Ibid.
127. Ibid.
128. Ibid., 1862, p. 11.
129. Ann. Cycl., 1862, p. 11.
130. Ibid.
131. Ibid.
132. N. & H., Vol. VI. p. 346.
133. Ann. Cycl., 1863, p. 15.
134. Ann. Cycl., 1863, p. 15.
135. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. p. 379.
136. Ibid., p. 247.
137. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. p. 467.
138. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. pp. 472–473.
139. Ann. Cycl., 1864, p. 29; Hough’s American Constitutions, Vol. II. p. 81.
140. Quoted in N. & H., Vol. VIII. p. 414.
141. Hough’s Amer. Cons., Vol. II. p. 81.
142. Ann. Cycl., 1864, p. 29.
143. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. p. 475.
144. Ibid., p. 476.
145. Ibid., p. 479.
146. Ibid., p. 482.
147. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. pp. 483–484.
148. Ann. Cycl., 1864, pp. 29–30.
149. Ibid., p. 30.
150. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. p. 501.
151. Ibid., p. 515.
152. Ann. Cycl., 1864, p. 30.
153. See remarks of Senator Pomeroy, February 2, 1865, Congressional Globe, Part II., 2 Sess. 38th Cong., p. 555.
154. McPherson’s Pol. Hist., p. 7.
155. McPherson’s Pol. Hist., p. 7n.
156. Eighth Census, pp. 516–522.
157. Density maps in Tenth Census (Population), pp. xii-xiii, xiv-xv, xvi-xvii.
158. Blair in Appendix to Globe, pp. 327–331, 2 Sess. 37th Cong.; Eighth Census, pp. 516–522; Seventh Census, pp. 242–261.
159. Parker, The Formation of West Virginia, p. 125.
160. Globe, 2 Sess. 37th Cong., p. 3038.
161. Ann. Cycl., 1861, pp. 743–744.
162. The Formation of West Virginia, p. 36.
163. The Formation of West Virginia, p. 42.
164. Ann. Cycl., 1861, pp. 742–743.
165. The Formation of West Virginia, p. 43.
166. Ibid.
167. Ann. Cycl., 1861, p. 743; The Formation of West Virginia, p. 45, gives the oath in a form slightly different.
168. Ann. Cycl., 1861, p. 743.
169. Ann. Cycl., 1862, p. 801.
170. Mr. A. W. Campbell in The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, April 14, 1897.
171. Globe, 1 Sess. 37th Cong., pp. 103–109.
172. The Formation of West Virginia, pp. 47–48.
173. The Formation of West Virginia, pp. 48–50; also Ann. Cycl., 1861, p. 745.
174. The Formation of West Virginia, p. 57.
175. The Formation of West Virginia, p. 79.
176. Ibid., p. 93.
177. The Formation of West Virginia, p. 96, says 16,981 for and 441 against the constitution. The Annual Cyclopædia for 1862, p. 801, gives the vote as 18,862 in favor of, and 514 against, the constitution. Poore’s Charters and Constitutions, Vol. II. p. 1977, is the authority for the statement in the text.