Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [555]
Lincoln’s spirits began to revive…thirty-four guns: Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of ’61, pp. 76, 77.
“the cheers”…before leaving Springfield: “Indianapolis Correspondence, 11 February 1861,” in Hay, Lincoln’s Journalist, pp. 25 (quote), 27.
a direct, powerful talk…“free-love arrangement”: AL, “Speech from the Balcony of the Bates House at Indianapolis, Indiana,” February 11, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 195.
“shaken off…tragedy would have been”: “Cincinnati Correspondence, 12 February 1861,” in Hay, Lincoln’s Journalist, p. 28.
fêted in the state Capitol…his election official: Entry for February 13, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 13.
“The votes have been…was no enemy”: FWS to Anna (Wharton) Seward, February 14, 1861, reel 116, Seward Papers.
“have passed the 13th…people have chosen”: WHS to home, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 505.
“full evening dress”…lavish military ball: Entry for February 13, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 13.
he danced with Chase’s lovely daughter: This story was told to the author by a tour guide at the Ohio State House during a visit to Columbus, Ohio, in 1998.
“Mrs. Lincoln was piqued…at Washington”: “Kate Chase in 1893,” Star clipping, KCS vertical file, DWP.
Never comfortable with extemporaneous speech: Harold Holzer, “Avoid Saying ‘Foolish Things’: The Legacy of Lincoln’s Impromptu Oratory,” in “We Cannot Escape History”: Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth, ed. James M. McPherson (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995), pp. 105–21.
“there is really…will come to an end”: AL, “Speech at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,” February 15, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 211.
“he should hardly…did not want to”: AL, “Remarks at Ashtabula, Ohio,” February 16, 1861, in ibid, p. 218.
he kissed Grace Bedell: Entry for February 16, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 14.
“a continuous carnival…grand popular ovation”: “Indianapolis Correspondence, 11 February 1861,” in Hay, Lincoln’s Journalist, p. 23.
Every glimpse of Mary: Entry for February 19, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 18.
“are rapidly reducing…frivolous and uncertain”: Entries for February 16 and 20, 1861, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 76.
“observed the utmost…his administration”: Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 170.
“the man does not…the foot down firmly”: AL, “Address to the New Jersey General Assembly at Trenton, New Jersey,” February 21, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 237.
“lifted his foot”…continue his remarks: “Philadelphia Correspondence, 21 February 1861,” in Hay, Lincoln’s Journalist, p. 40.
“consent to…Union itself was made”: AL, “Reply to Mayor Fernando Wood at New York City,” February 20, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 233.
“never had a feeling…to surrender it”: AL, “Speech in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,” February 22, 1861, in ibid., p. 240.
the Baltimore plot: See Isaac H. [sic] Arnold, “Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 37 (June 1868), pp. 123–28.
“This…in the afternoon”: Ward Hill Lamon, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847–1865, ed. Dorothy Lamon Teillard (n.p.: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1895; 1911; Lincoln, Nebr., and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1994), p. 39.
Fred was in the Senate gallery…“‘let you know in the morning’”: Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, pp. 509–10.
Pinkerton insisted…in the afternoon as scheduled: Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 78.
“side-tracked…Capitol came in sight”: Lamon, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 40, 45.
had “crept into Washington”: EMS, quoted in Helen Nicolay, Our Capital on the Potomac (New York and London: Century Co., 1924), p. 358.
A scurrilous rumor spread…a long military cloak: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 244.
“It’s to be hoped…on his Administration”: Entry for February 23, 1861, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 102.
“Genl Jackson…where he left”: MB to AL, December 8, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
had rented a private house: Lamon, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,