Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [561]
Lincoln was unable to sleep: Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, p. 395.
“of all the trials…to survive them”: Memorandum, July 3, 1861, quoted in Nicolay, With Lincoln in the White House, p. 46.
Lincoln presented…“for his expedition”: Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, pp. 429–33 (quote p. 433).
“would be impossible…of time”: JGN to TB, March 31, 1861, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
“it was finally…to go to war”: George Harrington, “President Lincoln and His Cabinet: Inside Glimpses,” undated, unpublished manuscript, George R. Harrington Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo.
“a peaceful…of the whole north”: Frederick L. Roberts to WHS, March 18, 1861, reel 62, Seward Papers.
“Unionists…save the country”: Benjamin Ogle Tayloe to WHS, April 3, 1861, reel 63, Seward Papers.
“no conception…equal to the hour”: Entries for March 28 (first quote) and March 31, 1861, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 76.
“two supreme illusions”: Frederic Bancroft, “Seward’s Proposition of April 1, 1861, For a Foreign War and a Dictatorship,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 99 (October 1899), p. 791.
Three commissioners…resorted to an indirect link: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, pp. 250–51.
“would be evacuated…next five days”: Ellsworth D. Draper and Joshua L. Rosenbloom, “Secession C: Fort Sumter: The Near Fiasco,” p. 9, Case Study, Lincoln and Fort Sumter, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1983, author’s collection.
“Some thoughts for the President’s consideration”: WHS to AL, April 1, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“handwriting…hands of any clerk”: Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, p. 149.
“We are…domestic or foreign”: WHS to AL, “Some thoughts for the President’s consideration,” April 1, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“the symbolism of Federal authority”: Draper and Rosenbloom, “Secession C: Fort Sumter,” p. 11.
under the heading of “For Foreign Nations”: Norman B. Ferris, “Lincoln and Seward in Civil War Diplomacy: Their Relationship at the Outset Reexamined,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 12 (1991), pp. 25–26.
“that there was no…the ruling party”: WHS, quoted by Rudolf Schleiden, quoted in Richard N. Current, “Comment,” JALA (1991), p. 45.
“whatever policy…assume responsibility”: WHS to AL, “Some thoughts for the President’s consideration,” April 1, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“had Mr. Lincoln…the whole affair”: Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 186, 187.
dashed off a reply…to respond in person: Donald, Lincoln, p. 290.
“without a policy…I must do it”: AL to WHS, April 1, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 316–17.
“to put down…this thing through”: Entry for March 31, 1861, private journal of Montgomery Meigs (copy), container 13, Nicolay Papers.
“fit out the Powhatan…she is fitting out”: AL to Andrew H. Foote, April 1, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 314.
three hundred sailors: Fox to MB, April 17, 1861, in Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox, p. 33; “Result of G.V. Fox’s Plan for Reinforcing Fort Sumpter; In His Own Writing,” reprinted in ibid., p. 39.
assigned the Powhatan simultaneously to both Pickens and Sumpter: “Result of G.V. Fox’s Plan for Reinforcing Fort Sumpter” p. 40; Fox to his wife [Virginia Woodbury Fox], May 2, 1861, ibid., pp. 42–43.
“Your father says…put my name?”: Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, p. 148.
“leave New York…disposing of your force”: Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 22–23.
“I am directed…without further notice”: Simon Cameron to Robert S. Chew, April 6, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 323.
Lincoln had devised a means: Don E. Fehrenbacher, “Lincoln’s Wartime Leadership: The First Hundred Days,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 9 (1987), esp. p. 7.
“embarrassed by…errors imputed to them”: Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 23–25.
Porter had already set sail…had priority: Hoogenboom, “Gustavus Fox and the Relief of Fort Sumter,” CWH (1963), p. 392.
Fox reached Charleston…futilely searching: Fox to MB, April 17, 1861, in Confidential Correspondence of