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41. Ibid., 35 cong., 1 sess., App., 186.

42. George W. Julian, "George W. Julian's Journal--The Assassination of Lincoln,"

Indiana Magazine of History, XI (1915), 324-337, esp. 335.

43. James G. Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress (Norwich, Conn., 1886), II, 14.

44. Congressional Globe, 39 cong., 2 sess., 124.

45. Daily National Intelligencer (Washington), December 18, 1866.

46. Ibid., January 3, 1867; New York Times, January 9, 1867.

47. Daily National Intelligencer, January 3, 5, 1867.

48. Wade to Sumner, November 1, 1865. Sumner Papers, Harvard University.

49. Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, Jay Cooke, Financier of the Civil War (Philadelphia,

1907), II, 26.

50. Henrietta Larson, Jay Cooke, Private Banker (Cambridge, Mass., 1936), 344.

51. Edward Atkinson to Charles Sumner, February 25, 1868. Sumner Papers, Har-

vard University.

52. Brockett, Men of Our Day, 237-238; Cincinnati Daily Gazette, March 6, 1868.

53. Congressional Globe, 35 cong., 1 sess., 2451.

54. Ibid., 39 cong., 2 sess., 706.

55. Ibid., 1150, 1160.

56. New York Times, June 20, 1867.

57. George F. Edmunds, "Ex-Senator Edmunds on Reconstruction and Impeach-

ment," Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, LXXXV (1913), 862-863; New York

Tribune, May 19, 1868: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, May 7, 13, 14, 22, 1868; Alexander

McClure, Col. A. K. McClure's Recollections of Half a Century (Salem, Mass., 1902), 66.

58. Riddle, The Life of Benjamin F. Wade, 31-80; Williams, History of Ashtabula

County, 67.

59. Riddle, The Life of Benjamin F. Wade, 59-60.

60. Ibid., 81.

61. Wade to James Wade, June 20, 1861. Benjamin F. Wade Papers, Library of Con-

gress.

62. Riddle, The Life of Benjamin F. Wade, 104; Wade to Mrs. Wade, November 5,

1850, Wade Papers, Library of Congress.

63. Wade to Mrs. Wade, November 5, 1850. Wade Papers, Library of Congress.

All of Wade's letters to his wife cited here are in this collection.

64. Wade to Mrs. Wade, March 4, 1854.

65. Wade to Mrs. Wade, March 30, 1856.

66. Wade to Mrs. Wade, December 25, 1859.

67. Wade to Mrs. Wade, December 24, 1874.

68. Wade to Mrs. Wade, December 26, 1860.

69. Wade to Mrs. Wade, February 14, 1861.

70. Wade to Mrs. Wade, July 22, 1861.

71. Ashtabula Sentinel, August 1, 1861.

72. Dispatch of March 31, 1862. Rudolf Schleiden Papers, Staatsarchiv, Bremen

(microfilm copy, Library of Congress).

73. Wade to Sumner, July 29, 1865. Sumner Papers, Harvard University.

74. William Dean Howells, Stories of Ohio (New York, 1897), 259.

75. William Dean Howells, Years of My Youth (New York, 1916), 108.

76. Henry B. Stanton, Random Recollections (New York, 1887), 203-204.

77. Carl Schurz, The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz (New York, 1908), III, 102.

78. Noah Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, edited by Herbert Mitgang (New

York, 1958), 34.

79. Dispatch No. 1, January 6, 1862. Rudolf Schleiden Papers.

80. Welles, Diary, II, 95.

81. Christian F. Eckloff, Memoirs of a Senate Page (1855-1859), edited by Percival

G. Melbourne (New York, 1909), 4, 129, 135-136.

82. See above, p. 68.

83. Riddle, The Life of Benjamin F. Wade, passim, esp. 9-10; Blaine, Twenty Years

of Congress, I, 320.

84. Memorandum, March 7, 1878. Ward Hill Lamon Papers, Henry E. Huntington

Library, San Marino, California.

 

JOHN WILLIAM LOWE

 

1. David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd (New Haven, Conn., 1950), 14-15, passim.

2. For a brief commentary on the nature and incidence of business failure in the

Jacksonian era, see Marvin Meyers, The Jacksonian Persuasion (Stanford, Calif.,

1957), 97.

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3. Riesman, The Lonely Crowd, 129.

4. Biographical notes on John W. Lowe by Thomas Lowe, in Lowe Manuscripts

Collection, Dayton, Ohio, Public Library (all Lowe manuscripts cited herein are in

this collection). Unfortunately, a substantial portion of this biography is missing.

Some supplementary material bearing on Lowe's early life may be found in the

Xenia Torchlight, September 18, 1861, and in Whitelaw Reid, Ohio in the War (Cin-

cinnati, 1868), I, 1009-1010.

5. John Lowe to Thomas Lowe, January 18, 1857.

6. Xenia Torchlight, September 18, 28, 1861; New York Times, September 17, 1861.

7. The Castigator (Georgetown, Ohio), August 4, 18, 25, September 1, 22, 29, 1834.

The early movements of John W. Lowe in Ohio are difficult to trace. Indeed, although

two sources state that he was in Batavia in 1833, it is not certain that he resided

in Batavia before he was in Georgetown. On the other hand, Lowe's advertising

notices in the Georgetown newspaper, read carefully, do not necessarily place him

in Georgetown in 1834; they simply state that orders for his services could be left

at a Georgetown store. In any case, he certainly must have been living in Georgetown

in mid-1835 when he acted as marshal of the Fourth of July celebration there in

that year.

8. Xenia Torchlight, September 18, 28, 1861.

9. J. L. Rockey, comp., History of Clermont County, Ohio (Philadelphia, 1880),

137. Before gaining admission to the bar, Lowe studied with Fishback, as well as

with Hamer. New York Times, September 17, 1861.

10. Jesse Grant to John Lowe, December 8, 1840.

11. U. S. Grant to John Lowe, June 26, 1846, at Indiana University, Bloomington,

Indiana. I am indebted to Dr. John Y. Simon, the executive director of the Ulysses

S. Grant Association, for a copy of the letter.

12. Ibid.

13. John Lowe to Manorah Lowe, October 21, November 15, 1847, January 17,

March 1 [?], 1848.

14. Diary of John Lowe, October 4, 1847.

15. John Lowe to Manorah Lowe, October 17, November 9, 15, 1847, January 8,

17, 1848; John Lowe to Philip B. Swing, November 18, 1847.

16. John Lowe to Manorah Lowe, November 15, 1847, January 8, 1848.

17. John Lowe to Manorah Lowe, March 18, May 20, 1848. The treaty of Guada-

lupe Hidalgo had already been ratified by the United States Senate when Lowe wrote

these letters.

18. John Lowe to Manorah Lowe, May 14, 1848.

19. John Lowe to Manorah Lowe, October 17, November 15, 1847, January 9, 15,

23, April 10, 1848.

20. John Lowe to Manorah Lowe, March 1 [?], 1848.

21. John Lowe to Manorah Lowe, December 25, 1847.

22. John Lowe to Manorah Lowe, September 20, December 2, 1847, January 9, April

10, 1848.

23. John Lowe to Manorah Lowe, December 11, 1847, January 15, 1848.

24. John Lowe to Manorah Lowe, December 11, 1847, February 16, 1848.

25. John Lowe to Manorah Lowe, May 12, 1848.

26. John Lowe to Manorah Lowe, February 16, 1848.

27. John Lowe to Manorah Lowe, December 25, 1847.

28. Dayton Daily Journal, June 5, 1854.

29. Thomas Lowe to Manorah Lowe, June 1, 1855.

30. For a description of young Lowe's life, see Carl M. Becker, "The Genesis of a

Copperhead," Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, Bulletin, XIX (1961), 235-

253; "Picture of a Young Copperhead," Ohio History, LXXI (1962), 3-23; and "A

Buckeye in Tennessee: Sojourn of Alienation," Tennessee Historical Quarterly, XXII

(1963), 335-346.

31. Thomas Lowe to John Lowe, December 30, 1855, February 3, 1856.

32. John Lowe to Thomas Lowe, January 13, March 29, 1856.

33. John Lowe to Thomas Lowe, March 29, 1856.

34. John Lowe to Thomas Lowe, March 16, October 19, 26, December 28, 1856;

Thomas Lowe to John Lowe, October 12, 1856.

35. Manorah Lowe to Thomas Lowe, February 4, 1856; John Lowe to Thomas Lowe,

February 8, 22, 1857.

36. John Lowe to Thomas Lowe, October 19, 1856.

37. John Lowe to Thomas Lowe, January 18, 1857.

38. John Lowe to Thomas Lowe, March 15, 1857.

39. John Lowe to Thomas Lowe, September 14, 1856.

40. John Lowe to Thomas Lowe, January 4, 1857.

41. John Lowe to Thomas Lowe, September 14, 1856.

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42. John Lowe to Thomas Lowe, October 22, 1854.

43. John Lowe to Thomas Lowe, February 10, 1856.

44. John Lowe to Thomas Lowe, August 5, 1855, March 23, 1856.

45. John Lowe to Thomas Lowe, December 15, 1856.

46. John Lowe to Thomas Lowe, April 21, 1856.

47. John Lowe to Thomas Lowe, August 10, 18, 24, 31, September 8, 1856.

48. John Lowe to Thomas Lowe, March 23, 29, October 26, 1856, February 8, March

1, 21, 1857.

49. Lowe's activities in this period may be traced in various clippings in the Scrap-

book of John Lowe. See also the Xenia Torchlight, September 18, 1861, and Reid,

Ohio in the War, I, 1009.

50. This quarrel is vaguely alluded to in the following letters: Thomas Lowe to

Manorah Lowe, May 29, 1861; Thomas Lowe to William Lowe, June 5, 1861.

51. The role of Ammen in the election may be followed in his Civil War diary, par-

ticularly in the entries of May 1, 2, June 21, 22, 1861. Diary of Brigadier General Jacob

Ammen, in the Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield.

52. William Dennison to John Lowe, June 26, 1861.

53. Thomas Lowe to William Lowe, June 5, 14, 1861; Thomas Lowe to Manorah Lowe,

May 29, 1861.

54. Cincinnati Commercial, July 20, 1861.

55. Perrysburg Journal, July 22, 1861.

56. John Lowe to Thomas Lowe, August 1, 11, 1861.

57. M. D. Potter to Thomas Lowe, August 1, 1861.

58. Cincinnati Commercial, August 5, 1861. The Dayton Daily Journal also published

the accounts, along with Tom's appended statement that they proved the Commercial

to be an organ of libel. Dayton Daily Journal, August 6, 1861.

59. Statements of Colonel Charles Whittlesey, August 4, 1861, and Captain Ira Gibbs,

August 4, 1861, in Lowe Manuscripts Collection. The statements were published in the

Dayton Daily Journal. Introducing them in the Journal, Tom wrote that any man who

was at Scarey who would not corroborate the statements was either a "coward or a

thief." He also went on to say that the allegations had been precipitated by Norton,

who resented Colonel Lowe's preferential place as senior officer in Cox's command.

Dayton Daily Journal, August 16, 1861.

60. Cincinnati Commercial, August 22, 1861.

61. Cincinnati Daily Press, August 5, 1861.

62. Biographical notes on John W. Lowe by Thomas Lowe.

63. John Lowe to Manorah Lowe, September 6, 1861. The letter is a copy made by

Thomas Lowe of the original letter. Thomas Lowe's version is somewhat different from

Reid's quotation from the same letter. Reid, Ohio in the War, I, 1010.

64. Report of McClellan, July 19, 1861, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation

of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, 1880-1901),

Series I, Vol. II, 288. McClellan was so incensed by the performance of his generals

at Scarey that he sent a beseeching invocation to Colonel E. B. Townsend: "In Heaven's

name give me some general officers who understand their profession. I give orders and

find some who cannot execute them unless I stand by them." Ibid. Brigadier General

Henry Wise, commanding Confederate troops, reported that three-fourths of the Union

troops panicked under fire at Scarey. Ibid., 292.

65. Jacob D. Cox to John Lowe, August 15, 1861. After Lowe's death Cox wrote to

Tom that the "slander" against his father would be erased in time. Jacob D. Cox to

Thomas Lowe, November 15, 1861.

66. Jacob D. Cox, Military Reminiscences of the Civil War (New York, 1900), I,

69-70.

67. William C. Cochran, "Political Experiences of Major-General Jacob Dolson Cox"

(typed manuscript, Cincinnati Historical Society), I, 614-615.

68. Commercial Telegram (Toledo), March 18, 1885.

69. Ibid., March 24, 1885.

70. Cincinnati Gazette, July 20, 1861.

71. Reid, Ohio in the War, I, 1010.

72. Ibid., II, 149.

73. Report of Brigadier General Henry W. Benham, commanding First Brigade,

September 12, 1861, The War of the Rebellion, Series I, Vol. V, 134.

74. Cincinnati Gazette, September 16, 1861. Reid's florid description of Lowe's death

action seems supported by Thomas Taylor, who was serving with Company I of the

Twelfth. Taylor noted that "Lowe was leading on foot right bravely & urging the

men along when he received a shot." Thomas Taylor to Antoinette Taylor, October 2,

1861. Thomas Thomason Taylor Papers, Ohio Historical Society.

75. Cincinnati Commercial, September 13, 1861.

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