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Tad boasted…from the roof: Bayne, Tad Lincoln’s Father, pp. 68–69 (quotes p. 68).
“between the grey haired…plough hardened hands”: “20 April 1861, Saturday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 4.
“rather pale…all ‘go ahead’”: Entry for January 13, 1862, The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861–1865, available through “Washington During the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861–1865,” American Memory, Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov [hereafter Taft diary].
“More than once…arm of the chair”: Bayne, Tad Lincoln’s Father, pp. 35, 108.
Julia was appalled: Ibid., pp. 101, 102–06, 109–10.
“the most lovable…gentle-mannered”: Ibid., p. 8.
retreat to his mother’s room…write verses: Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 120.
“what she wanted when she wanted it”: Bayne, Tad Lincoln’s Father, p. 49.
A curious example…purple strings!: Ibid., pp. 43–48 (quotes p. 45).
brothers and brothers-in-law: Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 294; Ishbel Ross, The President’s Wife: Mary Todd Lincoln, A Biography (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973), p. 144.
the White House…“unsuccessful hotel”: Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, p. 26.
“the family apartments…(first President)”: Grimsley, “Six Months in the White House,” JISHS, p. 47.
went on a shopping trip: See entries for May 10–22, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, pp. 41–43.
$20,000 allowance to maintain the White House: Seale, The President’s House, Vol. I, p. 382.
state guest room…“clusters of grapes”: Betty C. Monkman, The White House: Its Historic Furnishings and First Families (New York: Abbeville Press, 2000), p. 125.
The press exaggerated…never even visited: Grimsley, “Six Months in the White House,” JISHS, pp. 58–59.
the bills added up: Entries for May 13, 21, 24, and 29, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, pp. 41, 43–45.
Kate Chase was hard at work…to borrow $10,000: Ross, Proud Kate, p. 62; SPC to Henry Carrington, April 16, 1861, reel 15, Chase Papers.
Chase later complained…with the president: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, p. 94.
“in a single season”…William Sprague: William Perrine, “The Dashing Kate Chase and Her Great Ambition,” Ladies’ Home Journal XVIII (June 1901), p. 11.
Kate had first met…“see the other”: Richard Parsons, quoted in Ohio State Journal, Columbus, Ohio, August 4, 1899.
Sprague would never forget…“it was yesterday”: William Sprague to KCS, May 27, 1866, William and Catherine Chase Sprague Papers, 1850–1900, MS 79. 17, Manuscript Division, Special Collections Department, Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island [hereafter Sprague Papers].
William Sprague: Peg A. Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague: Politics and Gender in a Civil War Marriage (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), pp. 27–28.
“I was thrust…highest positions”: William Sprague, quoted in Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague, p. 32.
As the largest employer…of his own money: “The Rhode Island Spragues,” unknown newspaper clipping, December 5, 1883, in KCS vertical file, DWP.
“a loan…the troops”: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, p. 42; ninety-six horses, Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague, p. 39.
On April 29…“movements of the regiment”: Star, April 29, 1861.
physical description of Sprague: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, p. 42.
“a small…wealth and social standing”: “26 April 1861, Friday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 12.
“When men like…such an army”: “30 April 1861, Tuesday,” in ibid., p. 14.
“the first, the only…lodgment there”: Entry for November 11, 1868, KCS diary, Sprague Papers.
“Do you remember…such in life”: William Sprague to KCS, May 27, 1866, Sprague Papers.
“accustomed to…be anticipated”: Entry for November 11, 1868, KCS diary, Sprague Papers.
Nettie Chase told Kate…would marry: KCS to Janet Chase Hoyt, September 29, 1861, reel 17, Chase Papers.
Elmer Ellsworth: Brian D. McKnight, “Ellsworth, Elmer Ephraim,” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed.