Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [530]
Stanton looked upon…and Byron: EMS to Edwin L. Stanton, quoted in Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 113.
“We years ago…cannot express”: EMS to Mary Lamson Stanton, December 16, 1842, EMS, “Mary Lamson, Wife of Edwin M. Stanton.”
deaths of Lucy and Mary: EMS, “Mary Lamson, Wife of Edwin M. Stanton”; Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” pp. 72, 99; Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, pp. 38, 44.
“verged on insanity”: Benjamin P. Thomas and Harold M. Hyman, Stanton: The Life and Times of Lincoln’s Secretary of War (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962), p. 35.
“She is my bride”…held that spring: Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 39.
“with lamp in hand…Where is Mary?”: Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 100.
Stanton’s responsibilities…go of his sorrow: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, pp. 35–36.
a letter of over a hundred pages: EMS, “Mary Lamson, Wife of Edwin M. Stanton.”
“tears obscuring his vision”: Gideon Stanton, ed., “Edwin M. Stanton.”
“anguish of heart”: EMS, “Mary Lamson, Wife of Edwin M. Stanton.”
“but time, care…for each other”: Ibid.
developed a high fever: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 40.
“He bled…few moments”: Alfred Taylor, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 45.
His mother watched: Ibid.
“the blood spouted…ceiling”: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 41.
Neighbors were sent…watching over him: Alfred Taylor, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 45.
“Where formerly…clasped behind”: Mrs. Davison Filson, quoted in ibid., p. 40.
Stanton’s change of personality in court: Ibid., p. 34.
“the most important”…He was greatly relieved: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, September 25, 1855, Stanton Papers, Donated Historical Materials, formerly Record Group 200, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. [hereafter Stanton Papers, DNA] (quote); Dickson, “Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati,” Harper’s (1884), p. 62.
Ellen Hutchison: See Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 66.
“radiant with beauty and intellect”: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, October 10, 1854, Stanton Papers, DNA.
in “agony”: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, October 28, 1854, Stanton Papers, DNA.
“the trouble…fresh blossoms”: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, October 10, 1854, Stanton Papers, DNA.
Ellen was vexed: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, May 21, 1855, and undated letter, Stanton Papers, DNA.
“his careless[ness]…feelings of all”: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, undated, Stanton Papers, DNA.
“there is so much…overlook”: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, May 21, 1855, Stanton Papers, DNA.
“blessed with…you condemn”: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, undated, Stanton Papers, DNA.
to marry Edwin on June 25, 1856: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, June 25, 1856, Stanton Papers, DNA.
Happier years followed: Gideon Stanton, ed., “Edwin M. Stanton.”
to Washington…a brick mansion: Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 79.
“Twenty-two…a monarch’s brow”: AL, “Fragment on Stephen A. Douglas,” [December 1856?], in CW, II, pp. 382–83.
“She had…ambition”: John T. Stuart interview, late June 1865, in HI, p. 63.
“I would rather…in the world”: MTL, quoted in Elizabeth Todd Edwards interview, 1865–1866, in HI, p. 444.
“a very little…does physically”: Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 140.
“no equal in the United States”: MTL, quoted in ibid., p. 144.
“unladylike”: MTL to Mercy Ann Levering, December [15?], 1840, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 21.
“the first bugle call…a new party”: Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. II, p. 34.
upheaval complicated by the emergence of the Know Nothings: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 142–43; Eugene H. Roseboom, “Salmon P. Chase and the Know Nothings,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 25 (December 1938), pp. 335–50.
the Know Nothing Party…“popery”: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, pp. 240–52 (quote p. 242); McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 32.
“How can any one…Russia, for instance”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, August 24, 1855, in CW, II, p. 323.
Republican Party, comprised of…over three decades: Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, pp. 114–17, 123–24, 224–25; Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, pp. 247, 249; McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom,