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wrote a personal note of condolence: AL to Ephrain D. and Phoebe Ellsworth, May 25, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 385–86.
“quite unable…out of my eyes”: JGN to TB, May 25, 1861, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
Mary was presented…packed away: Bayne, Tad Lincoln’s Father, p. 39.
a resolution…belligerent status: Entry for May 6, 1861, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, pp. 70–71; Norman A. Graebner, “Northern Diplomacy and European Neutrality,” in Why the North Won the Civil War, ed. David Donald (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1960; New York and London: Collier Books, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1962), p. 60.
“younger branch…is too late”: WHS to FAS, May 17, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, pp. 575–76.
“God damn ’em, I’ll give ’em hell”: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 298.
On May 21…two wars at once: Jay Monaghan, Diplomat in Carpet Slippers: Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1945), p. 114; Allen Thorndike Rice, “A Famous Diplomatic Dispatch,” North American Review 142 (April 1886), pp. 402–11.
“surprised and grieved…she has a natural claim”: AL, “Revision of William H. Seward to Charles Francis Adams,” May 21, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 377–78, 379 n14, 380.
the basis for a hard-line policy: Todd Anthony Rosa, “Diplomacy, U.S.A.” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 602.
“currency to Southern bonds”: WHS to TW, May 23, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 576.
“the ablest American”…his country’s position: Rice, “A Famous Diplomatic Dispatch,” NAR 142 (1886), pp. 402–3, 404 (quote).
“It is due to…every day”: WHS to FAS, May 17, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 575.
“Executive skill…assiduous cooperation”: WHS to FAS, June 5, 1861, quoted in ibid., p. 590.
“to his chief…personal attachment”: Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. IV, p. 449.
“a brilliant assemblage…twenty years more”: NYT, May 22, 1861.
forced to rely on government loans: Blue, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 143–46.
functions…belonged to the War Department: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 253–54; Bradley, Simon Cameron, pp. 177–78.
“the principal charge…regiments in Tennessee”: SPC to Trowbridge, March 21, 1864, reel 32, Chase Papers.
“The President…half-consciousness”: NYT, April 23, 1861, enclosed with SPC to AL, April 25, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“has too much truth in it”: SPC to AL, April 25, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“Oh, it was a terrible time…no anything”: NYT, June 3, 1878.
weapons in short supply…messengers, and watchmen: A. Howard Meneely, The War Department, 1861: A Study in Mobilization and Administration (New York: Columbia University Press, 1928), pp. 25–26, 106–11.
“I was…to be envied”: NYT, June 3, 1878.
“so large…without compensation”: AL, “To the Senate and House of Representatives,” May 26, 1862, in CW, V, p. 242.
Alexander Cummings: Bradley, Simon Cameron, pp. 196–97.
“embargo” on…“so strict”: NYT, June 22, 1861.
congressmen and senators…“President’s message”: NYT, July 4, 1861.
Senator Orville Browning…“of the Country”: Entry for July 3, 1861, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 475.
Jefferson had denounced: “From Time to Time: History of the State of the Union,” The White House, www.whitehouse.gov/stateoftheunion/history.html (accessed July 2003); “History of the State of the Union,” National Archives and Records Administration, http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/SOTU00/history/address.html (accessed July 2003).
had submitted their written messages: Entry for July 5, 1861, in Russell, My Diary North and South, p. 388.
“give the legal means…the government itself”: AL, “Message to Congress in Special Session,” July 4, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 426, 431–32, 437, 438.
“In spite of…masses of the people”: NYT, July 7, 1861.
Congress responded…patriotic fervor: Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. IV, pp. 370, 375–76, 382–83.
“No mention is…of the rebellion”: Douglass’ Monthly (August