436 "the country say!": Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, pp. 5758.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM

Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), is a brilliant study of the rhetoric and ideas of the Gettysburg Address. There is also useful information in William E. Barton, Lincoln at Gettysburg: What He Intended to Say; What He Said; What He Was Reported to Have Said; What He Wished He Had Said (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1930), and in Louis A. Warren, Lincoln's Gettysburg Declaration: "A New Birth of Freedom" (Fort Wayne, Ind.: Lincoln National Life Foundation, 1964).

437 "smash the crockery": New York Herald, June 4, 1863.

437 "prolong the war": E. M. Stanton to L. C. Turner, Sept. 19, 1863, Stanton MSS, LC.

437 "die for it": Chicago Tribune, June 11, 1863.

438 "act of the war": George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913), 1:372.

438 "with the situation": Day by Day, 3:183; Chicago Tribune, May 11, 1863.

438 "cool, clear and satisfied": Virginia Woodbury Fox, Diary, May 7,1863, Levi Woodbury MSS, LC.

438 "army [was] unshaken": New York Tribune, May 9, 1863.

438 "General Hooker twice": New York Herald, June 1, 1863.

438 "the recent one": CW, 6:201.

438 "kick the other": CW, 6:249.

439 "true objective point": CW, 6:257.

439 "as I may be": CW, 6:201, 281.

439 "he is an expert": Welles, Diary, 1:364.

439 "General-in-Chief": Ibid., 1:320.

439 "Commanding the Army": CW, 6:628.

440 "as regards myself": Welles, Diary, 1:333.

440 "lose his chance": Ibid., 1:344.

440 "try it again". Freeman Cleaves, Meade of Gettysburg (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960), p. 119.

440 "to obey them": CW, 6:282.

441 "strengthening the government": Browning, Diary, 1:631.

441 "the government overthrown": Browning, Diary, 1:630.

441 "and inst.i.tutions rest": Welles, Diary, 1:322.