Lyons to Russell, Aug.

23, 1864.] [Footnote 1211: June 3, 1864.] [Footnote 1212: The _Times_, August 4, 1864.

Letters dated June 27 and July 5, 1864.] [Footnote 1213: _A Cycle of Adams' Letters_, II, p.126.Henry Adams to his brother, May 13, 1864.

"The current is dead against us, and the atmosphere so uncongenial that the idea of the possibility of our success is not admitted."] [Footnote 1214: _Ibid._, p.136.Henry Adams to his brother, June 3, 1864.] [Footnote 1215: _The Index_, Feb.

19, 1863, p.