[85] "Diary of Gideon Welles," 3 vols., passim.
[86] "Studies, Military and Diplomatic," p. 282 et seq. These studies make a volume of rare historic value.
[87] According to that standard work, E. P. Alexander's "Memoirs," pp. 244, 245, and 274, the Confederates, who stood their ground at Sharpsburg on the day of battle and the day after, lost in killed and wounded thirty-two per cent. The French army at Waterloo entirely dissolved, with a loss in killed and wounded of only thirty-one per cent. (See figures in Henderson's "Stonewall Jackson.")
[88] Gideon Welles in an essay, "Lincoln and Johnson," The Galaxy, April, 1872.
[89] "John Sherman's Recollections," vol. I, p. 361.
[90] "Fifty Years of Public Service," Cullom, p. 146.
[91] The final estimate of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under both Lincoln and Johnson, is this: "He (Johnson) has been faithful to the Constitution, although his administrative capabilities and management may not equal some of his predecessors. Of measures he was a good judge but not always of men."—"Diary of Gideon Welles," vol. III, p. 556.
[92] "Jefferson's Works," vol. I, p. 48.
[93] "Why the Solid South," p. 20.
[94] Ogden's "Life and Letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin," vol. II, p. 114.