Clouds of Glory

Никогда не отступал, пока мог нанести удар,

Разделение слабых сил на опасной почве

И снова присоединиться к нему, чтобы победить сильного,

Насмехаясь над случайностью и всеми шансами войны.

Поступки, которые выглядели как безрассудство на волосок от гибели.

-Мы не называем их безрассудными, ведь он победил.

Мы не видим его безрассудного спокойствия.

Пропорция, контролирующая безрассудство.

Но атакующие качества были налицо.

Он не был мягким по отношению к жизни и не был одурманен справедливостью,

Он схватился с жизнью, как борец с быком,

Беспорядочно. Это не пришло ему в голову.

Пока он стоял и ждал в знаменитом облаке,

Он подошел к ней и взял ее за оба рога.

И бросил его на землю.

 

Примечания

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PREFACE The Portent

xvii “the apostle of the sword”: Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown: 1800–1859: A Biography Fifty Years After (New York: Knopf, 1943), 111.

xviii When he redrafted the Declaration of Independence: Ibid., 334.

xviii When he struck: Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Life and Letters of John Brown: Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia (London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searlef and Rivington, 1885), 40.

xxi “that an insurrection was in progress”: Villard, John Brown, 434.

xxii he had lived for fifteen years: Jean H. Baker, James Buchanan (New York: New York Times Books, 2004), 75.

xxiii The Arlington property alone: Douglas Southall Freeman, Robert E. Lee: A Biography (New York: Scribner, 1934), Vol. 1, 381.

xxiii Much as Lee: Ibid., 389.

xxiv “a foe without hate”: Benjamin Harvey Hill, Senator Benjamin Hill of Georgia: His Life, Speeches and Writings (Atlanta: T.H.P. Bloodworth, 1893), 406.

xxv “the sun was fiery hot”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 367.

xxv Secretary of War Floyd: Note of J. B. Floyd, secretary of war, to Colonel Drinkard, October 17, 1859, National Archives.

xxvii By midnight, Lee, Stuart, Lieutenant Green: Select Committee of the U.S. Senate, 36th Congress, 1st Session, Rep. Com. No. 278, June 15, 1860, 41.

xxvii With exquisite politeness: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 397, 398.

xxviii Calmly, Lee surveyed the ground: Ibid., 397.

xxix His mutilated corpse: David S. Reynolds, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights (New York: Knopf, 2005), 320.

xxx By mid-afternoon, men were falling: Ibid., 317–24; Villard, John Brown, 443.

xxx He sent an elderly civilian: Allan Keller, Thunder at Harper’s Ferry (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1958), 113.

xxx Brown took no umbrage: Villard, John Brown, 447.

xxxi “Oh, you will get over it”: Ibid., 448.

xxxiii “When Smith first came to the door”: Ibid., 451.

xxxiii “a ragged hole low down”: Ibid., 453.

xxxiii “With one son dead by his side”: Ibid.

xxxiv Colonel Washington cried out loudly: Keller, Thunder at Harper’s Ferry, 149.

xxxiv The rest “rushed in like tigers”: Villard, John Brown, 454.

xxxiv Lee “saw to it that the captured survivors”: Ibid.

xxxv “He is a man of clear head”: Ibid., 455.

xxxvii “No monument of quarried stone”: Susan Cheever, Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010), 129.

xxxvii “As it is a matter over which”: Robert E. Lee Jr., Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee (New York: Doubleday, Page, 1924), 21–22.

xxxvii In his majestic biography of Brown: Villard, John Brown, 555.

xxxviii In Philadelphia “a public prayer meeting”: Ibid., 559; Elizabeth Preston Allen, Life and Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903), 111–17.

xxxix “was draped in mourning”: Villard, John Brown, 559.

xl Southerners were dismayed: Ibid., 496.

xl “He has abolished slavery in Virginia”: Ibid., 562.

xl He was as little pleased: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 417.

xl He regarded secession: Ibid., 421.

xli “I hope,” he wrote: Ibid., 416.

xli “He had been taught to believe”: Ibid., 418.

xlii “Washington,” Everett wrote: Quoted ibid., 420.

xlii “Secession,” Lee wrote: Ibid., 421.

CHAPTER 1 “Not Heedless of the Future”

5 By the time of the American Revolution: Richard B. McCaslin, Lee in the Shadow of Washington (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001), 13.

7 The years between 1773 and 1776: Douglas Southall Freeman, Robert E. Lee: A Biography (New York: Scribner, 1934), Vol. 1, 2.

8 A year later: Ibid.

8 Washington, recognizing Lee’s special skills: Ibid., 3.

9 “much to the horror”: Ibid., 66.

9 “sensitive, resentful”: Ibid., 4.

10 When Matilda died in 1790: McCaslin, Lee in the Shadow of Washington, 17.

11 “Why didn’t you come home?”: Paul Nagel, The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 166.

11 In a half-baked scheme: Emory Thomas, Robert E. Lee (New York: Norton, 1995), 26.

11 On a visit to Shirley: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 8.

13 In these modest circumstances: Nagel, The Lees of Virginia, 175, 195–96.