Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [560]
Scott’s reply…“20,000 volunteers”: Winfield Scott to AL, March 11, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“was disinclined…to be understood”: Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 6.
“was virtually…irresistible force”: FPB to MB, March 12, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
Fox’s ingenious plan: “Result of G.V. Fox’s Plan for Reinforcing Fort Sumpter; In His Own Writing,” in Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox, pp. 38–39; West, Gideon Welles, p. 98.
pacing up and down as he spoke: Helen Nicolay, “Lincoln’s Cabinet,” Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 5 (March 1949), p. 274.
“Assuming it to be…to attempt it?”: AL to WHS, March 15, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 284.
description of the State Department: Charles Lanman, Bohn’s Hand-Book of Washington (Washington, D.C.: Casimir Bohn, 1856), p. 35; Robert Mills, Guide to the National Executive Offices and the Capitol of the United States (Washington, D.C.: Peter Force Printer, 1841), published work 5007, reel 14, The Papers of Robert Mills, 1781–1855, ed. Pamela Scott, Scholarly Resources, microfilm edn.
Frederick…assistant secretary of state: WHS to FAS, March 8, 1861, in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 518.
Seward reiterated…emphatic negative reply: WHS to AL, March 15, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“If the attempt…cannot advise it”: SPC to AL, March 16, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“the organization of…its experiment”: SPC to Alphonso Taft, April 28, 1861, reel 15, Chase Papers.
“it seems to me…affirmative answer”: SPC to AL, March 16, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“to do any act…a civil war”: Entry for March 16, 1861, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 179.
“an inevitable…the better”: Simon Cameron to AL, March 16, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“impression has gone…untold disaster”: GW to AL, March 15, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“it would not…circumstances”: Caleb B. Smith to AL, March 16, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“every new conquest…those who administer it”: MB to AL, March 15, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
if he could keep Virginia…give up Sumter: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, pp. 251–52; Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 278.
“utterly ruinous…recognition abroad”: AL, “Message to Congress in Special Session,” July 4, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 424.
Lincoln sent Fox to talk directly: Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, p. 389.
half-rations…until April 15: Ari Hoogenboom, “Gustavus Fox and the Relief of Fort Sumter,” Civil War History 9 (December 1963), p. 386.
Lincoln sent Stephen Hurlbut…“a fixed fact”: Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, pp. 390–91 (quote p. 391).
“a cypher…a humdrum lawyer”: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 244.
“humiliating…their respective states”: WHS to AL, March 28, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“certainly have…show me”: SPC to AL, March 28, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“I believe…Whig & Democratic element”: FPB to SPC, March 26, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.
cabinet meetings set for Tuesdays and Fridays: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 247 (quote); Welles diary, Vol. I, (1960 edn.), pp. 7–8.
William Russell: Leech, Reveille in Washington, p. 51.
“a subtle, quick…state mysteries”: Entry for March 26, 1861, in William Howard Russell, My Diary North and South (Boston: T. O. H. P. Burnham, 1863), p. 34.
“put out his hand…‘the Mississippi’”: Entry for March 27, 1861, in ibid., p. 39.
“was already seated…agreeable, and sprightly”: Ibid., pp. 41–42.
“easily…or Reynolds”: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, pp. 5–6.
“In reality…charm and magnetism”: Mrs. Charles Walker, quoted in Cincinnati Enquirer, August 1, 1899.
“I shall be glad…me at any time”: Cincinnati Enquirer, August 1, 1899; Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, p. 4 (italics from Belden and Belden).
“there was a Babel…he is famous”: Entry for March 28, 1861, in Russell, My Diary North and South, pp. 43, 44.
“according to recent…slave-holding States”: Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, p. 394.
“A very oppressive silence…not General”: MB to GW, May 17, 1873, reel 25, Welles Papers.
“timid temporizing…you are lost”: FPB, Sr., to Martin Van Buren, May 1, 1861, reel 34, Papers of Martin Van