NOTES
BENJAMIN F. WADE
1. David Donald, Lincoln Reconsidered
(New York, 1956), 103 ff. This article was
first read as a paper at the annual
meeting of the Mississippi Valley Historical As-
sociation at Milwaukee, April 26-28,
1962.
2. A. G. Riddle, The Life of Benjamin
F. Wade (Cleveland, 1886).
3. Carl Russell Fish, The American
Civil War (New York, 1937), 310.
4. Burton J. Hendrick, Lincoln's War
Cabinet (Boston, 1946), 268.
5. Claude G. Bowers, in a personal
letter to the author, June 13, 1957.
6. Claude G. Bowers, The Tragic Era (Cambridge,
Mass., 1929), 88.
7. J. G. Randall, Lincoln the
President (New York, 1944-55), III, 91.
8. Howard K. Beale, ed., Diary of
Gideon Welles (New York, 1960), II, 95-96.
9. For example, Robert W. Winston, Andrew
Johnson, Plebeian and Patriot (New
York, 1928), 411-412; William A.
Dunning, Essays on the Civil War and Reconstruction
and Related Topics (New York, 1904), 255; Robert Selph Henry, The Story
of Recon-
struction (New York, 1938), 305.
10. David Miller De Witt, The
Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson (New
York, 1903), 167, 178-179.
11. Lloyd Paul Stryker, Andrew
Johnson: A Study in Courage (New York, 1929),
723.
12. T. Harry Williams, Lincoln and
the Radicals (Madison, Wis., 1941), 67.
13. Bruce Catton, This Hallowed
Ground (Garden City, N. Y., 1956), 83.
14. Randall, Lincoln the President, II,
63; Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, 10-11;
Robert Lynwood Fleming, The Sequel to
Appomattox (New Haven, Conn., 1919), 125.
15. Winston, Andrew Johnson, 336.
16. Hodding Carter, The Angry Scar:
The Story of Reconstruction (Garden City,
N. Y., 1959), 247.
17. Lloyd Lewis, "He Hated Southern
Gentlemen," American Mercury, XVIII (1929),
474-481.
18. Howard K. Beale, The Critical
Year (New York, 1930), 51; William B. Hessel-
tine, Ulysses S. Grant, Politician (New
York, 1935), 49; Carter, The Angry Scar, 25.
19. George Fort Milton, The Age of
Hate: Andrew Johnson and the Radicals (New
York, 1930), 405; E. Merton Coulter, The
South During Reconstruction (Wendell
Holmes Stephenson and E. Merton Coulter,
eds., A History of the South, III, Baton
Rouge, La., 1947), 115.
20. Coulter, The South During
Reconstruction, 114.
21. Fred A. Shannon, The Farmer's
Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860-1897 (Henry
David and others, The Economic
History of the United States, V, New York, 1945), 74.
22. Congressional Globe, 33
cong., 1 sess., 944, 1661, 1717, 1725, 1776; William W.
Williams, History of Ashtabula
County, Ohio (Philadelphia, 1878), 69.
23. Boston Evening Transcript, March
2, 1878; Riddle, The Life of Benjamin F.
Wade, 133; Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio (Cleveland,
1893), 130.
24. New York Tribune, October 12,
1867.
25. New York Herald, June 27,
1867.
26. Congressional Globe, 39
cong., 1 sess., 287, 2711, 4044, 4205 ff.
27. Cincinnati Daily Gazette, May
18, 1868; Riddle, The Life of Benjamin F. Wade,
286-287.
28. Hans L. Trefousse, "Ben Wade
and the Failure of the Impeachment of Johnson,"
Historical and Philosophical Society of
Ohio, Bulletin, XVIII (1960), 247 ff.
29. Daily Journal and Register (Columbus),
December 16, 1837, January 6, 23, 1838,
January 3, 1839; Triweekly Journal and Register (Columbus),
January 23, 1839; Ohio
State Journal (Columbus),
March 29, 1839.
30. Daily Journal and Register, January
3, 1838; Cincinnati Daily Gazette, January
5, 1838; L. P. Brockett, Men of Our Day (Philadelphia,
1868), 236.
31. See below, p. 73.
32. Cincinnati Daily Gazette, March
11, 1868.
33. Congressional Globe, 39
cong., 2 sess., 126.
34. Beale, The Critical Year, 51.
35. Congressional Globe, 33
cong., 2 sess., App., 220, 223.
36. Ulrich B. Phillips, The Life of
Robert Toombs (New York, 1913), 152.
37. Congressional Globe, 34
cong., 3 sess., 683, 686-687.
38. Ibid., 35 cong., 1 sess.,
App., 202.
39. Ibid., 1123.
40. Ibid., 33 cong., 2 sess.,
App., 220.