Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [503]
Nancy Hanks: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH, June 13, 1865, and John Hanks interview, May 25, 1865, in HI, pp. 5, 37; Benjamin P. Thomas, Abraham Lincoln: A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952), p. 6. On Nancy Hanks’s ancestry, see Paul H. Verduin, “New Evidence Suggest Lincoln’s Mother Born in Richmond County, Virginia, Giving Credibility to Planter-Grandfather Legend,” Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine XXXVIII (December 1988), pp. 4, 354–89.
Thomas in relentless poverty: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 5; Kenneth J. Winkle, The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln (Dallas: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2001), p. 13.
“Why Scripps, it is…‘annals of the poor’”: John L. Scripps to WHH, June 24, 1865, in HI, p. 57.
“was a woman…a brilliant woman”: Nathaniel Grigsby interview, September 12, 1865, in ibid., p. 113.
“read the good…benevolence as well”: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH (interview), June 13, 1865, in ibid., p. 40.
“beyond all doubt an intellectual woman”: John Hanks interview, [1865–1866], in ibid., p. 454.
“Remarkable” perception: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH, [December 1865?], in ibid., p. 149.
“very smart…naturally Strong minded”: William Wood interview, September 15, 1865, in ibid., p. 124.
“All that I am…God bless her”: AL, comment to WHH, quoted in Michael Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994), p. 42.
“milk sickness”: Philip D. Jordan, “The Death of Nancy Hanks Lincoln,” Indiana Magazine of History XL (June 1944), pp. 103–10.
Thomas and Elizabeth Sparrow: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, pp. 10–11.
“I am going away…return”: Nancy Lincoln, quoted in Robert Bruce, “The Riddle of Death,” in Gabor Boritt, ed., The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 132.
average life expectancy: Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution, p. 63.
“He restlessly looked…before his gaze”: Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. II, p. 187.
had a uniquely shattering impact: Bruce, “The Riddle of Death,” in The Lincoln Enigma, p. 132.
“a wild region”: AL, “Autobiography written for Jesse W. Fell,” December 20, 1859, in CW, III, p. 511.
“the panther’s…on the swine”: “The Bear Hunt,” [September 6, 1846?], in CW, I, p. 386.
Sarah, did the cooking…Dennis Hanks: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH (interview), June 13, 1865, in HI, p. 40.
a “quick minded woman…laugh”: Nathaniel Grigsby interview, September 12, 1865, in ibid., p. 113.
“wild—ragged and dirty”: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH, June 13, 1865, in ibid., p. 41.
soaped…“more human”: Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 106.
“sat down…to his grief”: Redmond Grigsby, quoted in Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, p. 95.
“From then on…you might say”: John W. Lamar, quoted in ibid.
“It is with deep grief…ever expect it”: AL to Fanny McCullough, December 23, 1862, in CW, VI, pp. 16–17.
“He was different…great potential”: Douglas L. Wilson, “Young Man Lincoln,” in The Lincoln Enigma, p. 35.
“clearly exceptional…intellectual equal”: Donald, Lincoln, p. 32.
“soared above us…guide and leader”: Nathaniel Grigsby interview, September 12, 1865, in HI, p. 114.
“a Boy of uncommon natural Talents”: A. H. Chapman statement, ante September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 99.
“His mind & mine…if he could”: Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., pp. 108, 107.
“He was a strong…neighborhood”: Leonard Swett, “Lincoln’s Story of His Own Life,” in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time, ed. Allen Thorndike Rice (1885; New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1909), p. 71.
his great gift for storytelling…fireplace at night: Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in HI, p. 107; John Hanks interview, [1865–1866], in ibid., p. 454.
along the old Cumberland Trail: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 7.
Thomas Lincoln would swap tales: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH, June 13, 1865, in HI, p. 37.
Young Abe listened…in his memory: Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 107.
Nothing was more upsetting