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Atlanta Campaign of 1864 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995).

Others in the South seemed to have a better appreciation than did Davis

that delaying Sherman fed popular discontent in the North before the

election. McPherson, Tried by War , 233.

83. McPherson, Tried by War , 240.


84. Cooper, Jeff erson Davis, American , 522, 525.


85. McPherson, Tried by War , 233–34, 240.


86. Foner, Reconstruction , 32. Th e three days of riots resulted in the deaths of
    as many as 500 persons and forced the Lincoln administration to send
    troops from the Army of the Potomac to assure order in the city. Some
    New York politicians, including Governor Horatio Seymour, contributed
    to the violence through their anti-draft statements. Hattaway and Jones,
    How the North Won , 440.


87. How much opposition Davis faced remains a matter of contention
    among historians. Th e most recent serious biography suggests that
    opposition was scattered and that he retained broad public backing.
    But draft resistance in the South was also serious, and some regions
    of the Confederacy, including East Tennessee and the mountainous
    western part of North Carolina, seem to have been barely under the
    control of the Confederate government. See Cooper, Jeff erson Davis,
    American. Davis did not have to stand for reelection during the war
    because the Confederate constitution gave the president a six-year
    term.


88. Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: Th e Political Genius of Abraham
    Lincoln (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005, 2006). See also Donald,
    Lincoln , 478–80.


89. Donald, Lincoln , 331–33.


90. On the constitutive role that skepticism toward executive power played
    in the Whig Party, see Michael F. Holt, Th e Rise and Fall of the American
    Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War (Oxford:
    Oxford University Press, 1999), 29.


91. McPherson, Tried by War , 234–40.


92. Donald, Lincoln , 525–26.


93. Donald, Lincoln , 441–42.


94. Lincoln, “Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,” 405.


95. Abraham Lincoln to Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864, in Lincoln, Selected
    Speeches and Writings (New York: Vintage Books/Library of America,
    1992), 419–21.


96. Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862, Lincoln, Selected
    Speeches and Writings (New York: Vintage Books/Library of America,
    1992), 343.


97. Donald, Lincoln , 368–69.


98. Samuel Kernell, “Life before Polls: Ohio Politicians Predict the 1828
    Presidential Vote,” PS: Political Science and Politics 33 (3) (September
    2000): 569–74.