NOTES
279
dent McKinley," Century
Magazine, LXIII (1901), 275; Addresses of John Hay (New
York, 1907), 168ff; Herbert Croly, Marcus
Alonzo Hanna: His Life and Work (New
York, 1912), 358; Olcott, William McKinley, II,
300; Morgan, William McKinley and His
America, 508, 517-519.
55. The treaties which McKinley
negotiated were never subsequently implemented due
to Roosevelt's lack of interest in the
tariff problem, and his unwillingness to touch the
explosive issue. See Olcott, William
McKinley, II, 377ff; Stephenson, Nelson W. Aldrich,
172; Tyler Dennett, John Hay: From
Poetry to Politics (New York, 1934), 416ff.
56. Wilson lauded McKinley's changed
views on the tariff, and believed he would
have condemned the trusts that
supposedly grew up under protection. Speaking during
the campaign of 1912 in Canton, Ohio, he
said: "He [McKinley] saw that we had made
for ourselves a straitjacket, and that
we must alter its pattern and alter its fabric. . . .
I am one of those who have the utmost
confidence that McKinley would net have sanc-
tioned the later developments of the
policy with which he stands identified." John Wells
Davidson, ed., A Crossroads of
Freedom: The 1912 Campaign Speeches of Woodrow
Wilson (New Haven, Conn., 1956), 416ff.
PETROLEUM VESUVIUS
NASBY
1. Harvey S. Ford, comp., Civil War
Letters of Petroleum V. Nasby (Columbus,
1962), 5.
2. For a discussion of the evolution of
the letters, see ibid.
3. Ibid., 4. For the rest of the story of Locke's versatile and
fruitful career, see James
C. Austin, Petroleum V. Nasby (David
Ross Locke) (New York, 1965).
4. During the war Crawford County was
notoriously anti-war and anti-administration.
Near riots occurred in Bucyrus in 1863.
5. Ford, Civil War Letters of
Petroleum V. Nasby, 5.
6. Reprinted in ibid., 7-9.
7. For Lincoln's use of Nasby, see Carl
Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
(New York, 1939), II, 241; III, 274,
353-356; IV, 55, 61, 124, 270.
8. The dateline erroneously reads June
rather than November in Nasby: Divers
Views, Opinions, and Prophecies of
Yoors trooly Petroleum V Nasby (Cincinnati,
1866),
132.
GARFIELD LETTERS
1. Frederick D. Williams, ed., The
Wild Life of the Army: Civil War Letters of James
A. Garfield (East Lansing, Mich., 1964), 96.
2. Ibid., 77. In his previous
letter to his wife, dated March 19, Garfield remarked that
he had received his commission as
brigadier general, effective the preceding January 10.
Ibid. Williams had been promoted to major on March 14.
3. Ibid., 79. For an excellent
analysis of Garfield's Sandy Valley campaign, see
Allan Peskin, "The Hero of the
Sandy Valley: James A. Garfield's Kentucky Campaign
of 1861-1862," Ohio History, LXXII
(1963), 3-24, 129-139.
4. Frederick A. Henry, Captain Henry
of Geauga: A Family Chronicle (Cleveland,
1942), 125. The Official Roster of
the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the
Rebellion, 1861-1866, IV (Akron, Ohio, 1877), 752, shows Williams "died
of disease"
July 25, 1862, and was buried in Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky, indicating
he may have returned to duty in Kentucky
when he suffered the relapse.
5. Henry, Captain Henry of Geauga, 184-185;
Western Reserve Eclectic Institute,
Annual Catalogue for 1860.
6. F. H. Mason, The Forty-Second Ohio
Infantry (Cleveland, 1876), 10-11, 261-262;
Henry, Captain Henry of Geauga, 101.
7. Mason, The Forty-Second Ohio, 12-13.
8. The Fifty-Fourth General Assembly of
the State of Ohio. Garfield had been elected
in 1859 as senator from Portage and
Summit counties.
9. Garfield had managed the unsuccessful
senatorial campaign of his close friend
Governor William A. Dennison.
10. General Winfield Scott advocated
abandoning Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor,
as impractical to reinforce.
11. Major Robert Anderson, the commander
of Fort Sumter.