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the election, their votes contributed only a small part of the Repub-lians' 15,000-vote victory (51.5 percent) over Woodward.
    Republicans additionally scored significant gains in state and local elections elsewhere. They interpreted these results as signs of a transformation of public opinion toward emancipation. The Republican newspaper in Lincoln's hometown of Springfield commented that if a referendum had been held on the Emancipation Proclamation a year earlier, "there is little doubt that the voice of a majority would have been against it. And yet not a year has passed before it is approved by an overwhelming majority." A New York Republican observed that "the change of opinion on this slavery question . . . is a great and historic fact. . . . Who could have predicted . . . this great and blessed revolution? . . . God pardon our blindness of three years ago." The Emancipation Proclamation had been "followed by dark and doubtful days," admitted Lincoln in his annual message to Congress on December 8, 1863. But now "the crisis which threatened the friends of the Union is past." 28 If Lincoln's optimism proved premature, it nevertheless mirrored the despair that threatened to undermine the southern will to continue fighting.
    28 . Illinois State Journal , Dec. 1, 1863, quoted in V. Jacque Voegeli, Free But Not Equal: The Midwest and the Negro during the Civil War (Chicago, 1967), 131; Strong, Diary , 408; CWL , VII, 49–50.









Abbreviated Titles
AHR
American Historical Review
Battles and Leaders
Clarence C. Buel and Robert U. Johnson, eds., Battles and Leaders of the Civil War , 4 vols. (New York, 1888)
CG
Congressional Globe
CWH
Civil War History
CWL
Roy C. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln , 9 vols. (New Brunswick, N.J., 1952–55)
Dennett, Lincoln/Hay
Tyler Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay (New York, 1939)
Foote, Civil War
Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative , 3 vols. (New York, 1958, 1963, 1974)
Jones, War Clerk's Diary (Miers)
John B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary , ed. Earl Schenck Miers (New York, 1958)
Jones, War Clerk's Diary (Swiggett)
John B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capitol , ed. Henry Swiggett (New York, 1935)
JAH
Journal of American History
JSH
Journal of Southern History
MVHR
Mississippi Valley Historical Review
Nevins, Ordeal
Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union , 2 vols. (New York, 1947). Vol. I: Fruits of Manifest Destiny, 1847–1852 . Vol. II: A House Dividing, 1852-1857
Nevins, Emergence
Allan Nevins, The Emergence of Lincoln , 2 vols. (New York, 1950). Vol. I: Douglas, Buchanan, and Party Chaos 1857–1859 . Vol. 11: Prologue to Civil War , 1859–1861
Nevins, War
Allan Nevins, The War for the Union , 4 vols. (New York, 1959, 1960, 1971). Vol. I: The Improvised War , 1861–1862. Vol. II: War Becomes Revolution . Vol. Ill: The Organized War , 1863–1864. Vol. IV: The Organized War to Victory , 1864–1865
O.R .
War of the Rebellion . . . Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies , 128 vols. (Washington, 1880–1901)
O.R. Navy
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion , 30 vols. (Washington, 1894–1922)
Potter, Impending Crisis
David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis 1848–1861 (New York, 1976)
Rowland, Davis
Dunbar Rowland, ed., Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist: His Letters, Papers, and Speeches , 10 vols. (Jackson, Miss., 1923)
Strong, Diary
The Diary of George Templeton Strong , vol. 3: The Civil War 1860–1865, ed. Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas (New York, 1952)
Wiley, Johnny Reb
Bell Irvin Wiley, The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy (Indianapolis, 1943)
Wiley, Billy Yank
Bell Irvin Wiley, The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union (Indianapolis, 1952)
Woodward, Chesnut's Civil War
C. Vann Woodward, ed., Mary Chesnut's Civil War (New Haven, 1981)

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