NOTES
PICTURE OF A YOUNG
COPPERHEAD
1 Biographical notes on John W. Lowe by
Thomas O. Lowe, in Lowe Manuscripts Collection,
Dayton Public Library. All Lowe
manuscripts cited hereafter are in this collection. For an account
of John W. Lowe's life, see also the Xenia
Torchlight, September 18, 1861.
2 J. L. Rockey, History of Clermont
County, Ohio (Philadelphia, 1880), 137. Fishback had some
illustrious sons: George was an editor
of the St. Louis Democrat, and William was a law partner
of Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis.
3 U. S. Grant to John W. Lowe, June 26,
1846. The original letter is not in the Lowe Collection,
but the copy in that collection,
according to the penciled notes of Thomas Lowe, was made from
the original in the possession of his
brother William. The copy is identical with the copy pub-
lished by Hamlin Garland in "Grant
in the Mexican War," McClure's Magazine, VIII (1897),
366-380. In his biography of Grant, Captain
Sam Grant (Boston, 1950), Lloyd Lewis calls attention
to the friendship between Lowe and Grant
while they were living in and around Batavia.
4 Letters to his father of November 20,
1853, and March 12, 1854, contain vivid accounts of
these debates.
5 Freeman Cary to John W. Lowe, June 23,
1853; Thomas O. Lowe to John W. Lowe, March
12, 1854.
6 Thomas O. Lowe to John W. Lowe,
December 30, 1855.
7 Thomas O. Lowe to John W. Lowe, August
24, September 7, 1856. A fuller account of Tom
Lowe's youth may be found in Carl M.
Becker, "The Genesis of a Copperhead," Historical and
Philosophical Society of Ohio, Bulletin,
XIX (1961), 235-253.
8 Journal of Thomas O. Lowe.
9 An excellent definition of the factions in the wartime Democratic party
may be found in
William F. Zornow's "Clement L.
Vallandigham and the Democratic Party in 1864," Historical and
Philosophical Society of Ohio, Bulletin,
XIX (1961), 23.
10 Eugene H. Roseboom and Francis P.
Weisenburger, A History of Ohio (Columbus, 1956),
189; Wood Gray, The Hidden Civil War (New
York, 1942), 43, 74.
11 Thomas O. Lowe to John Wallace,
August 14, 1861.
12 Thomas
O. Lowe to John Wallace, August 24, 1861.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid.
15 Thomas O. Lowe to William R. Lowe,
January 20, 1862.
16 Thomas O. Lowe to William R. Lowe,
January 8, May 16, 1862.
17 Thomas O. Lowe to Members of the
Session of the Deacons of the First Presbyterian Church,
October 7, 1861.
18 Thomas O. Lowe to Dr. Thomas E.
Thomas, October 22, 1861, in Alfred A. Thomas, ed.,
Correspondence of Thomas E. Thomas ([Dayton?], 1909), 119-120.
19 Thomas O. Lowe to William R. Lowe,
April 27, 1862.
20 The story of political life in Dayton
during the war is described in Irving Schwartz, "Dayton,
Ohio, During the Civil War"
(unpublished master's thesis, Miami University, 1949).
21 Dayton Daily Journal, June 23, 1862; Dayton Weekly Empire, June 28,
1862.
22 Dayton Daily Journal, June 23, 1862.
23 Thomas O. Lowe to William R. Lowe,
June 28, 1862.
24 George H. Porter, Ohio Politics
During the Civil War Period (New York, 1911), 107, 139-140.
25 Thomas O. Lowe to William R. Lowe,
July 12, 21, 1862.
26 Thomas O. Lowe to William R. Lowe,
July 12, 1862.
27 Thomas O. Lowe to William R. Lowe,
August 9, 23, 1862.
28 Speech delivered at Pyrmont,
Centerville, Harshmanville, Alexandersville, Miamisburg, and
Dayton. Journal of Thomas O. Lowe. A
summary also appeared in the Dayton Daily Empire,
September 26, 1862.
29 "Peace," a speech delivered
sometime in October at Hamilton, Germantown, and New
Lebanon. Journal of Thomas O. Lowe.
30 Speech delivered in Dayton, August 2,
1862. Journal of Thomas O. Lowe. See also "Jacobins,"
in the Lowe journal.
31 See footnote 29 above.