Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [571]
Henry Wikoff…“and Thackeray”: John W. Forney, Anecdotes of Public Men, Vol. I (New York: Harper & Bros., 1873; New York: Da Capo Press, 1970), pp. 366–71 (quote p. 367).
“My wife…never fallen out”: AL, quoted in Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 196.
When Prince Napoleon…visited: Entry for August 3, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 58.
“We only have…proper season”: MTL to Hannah Shearer, August 1, 1861, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 96.
“beautiful dinner…predominated”: Grimsley, “Six Months in the White House,” JISHS, p. 70.
Mary requested Volume 9: Entry for August 5, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 59.
William Scott: Court-martial of Private William Scott, Co. K, 3rd Vermont Infantry, case file OO-209, Court-Martial Case Files, 1809–1894, entry 15, Records of the Office of the Judge Advocate General (Army), RG 153, DNA; NYT, September 10, 1861.
As the story was told: See L. E. Chittenden, Recollections of President Lincoln and His Administration (New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1901), p. 267.
“Think…much as he tried to”: Grimsley, “Six Months in the White House,” JISHS, p. 71.
Lincoln walked over…“‘Lady President’”: George B. McClellan, McClellan’s Own Story (New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1887), p. 91 (quote); entry for September 8, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 65.
“that it was asking…‘only one he had’”: Chittenden, Recollections of President Lincoln (1901 edn.), p. 273.
“the most beautiful…my own”: MTL to Hannah Shearer, July 11, 1861, Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 94.
drives with the Sewards: See entries for September 1, 3, and 6, 1861, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers, for examples of afternoons spent driving with Sewards; FAS to LW, [August 1861], reel 119, Seward Papers.
“a plain…& the crops”: FAS to LW, [July 1861?], reel 119, Seward Papers.
“I liked him…all over him”: Entry for September 1, 1861, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
“abandon of…climb a rope”: NYT, June 17, 1861.
“With one impulse…mouth to mouth”: Entry for September 6, 1861, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
“I love…and does”: Entry for September 9, 1861, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
“palatial…tasteful & attractive”: FAS to LW, [July 1861?], reel 119, Seward Papers.
confined to her bed by migraines: See FAS to LW, [August 1861], reel 119, Seward Papers; “‘I have supped full on horrors,’ from Fanny Seward’s Diary,” ed. Patricia Carley Johnson, American Heritage X (October 1959), p. 62.
vacation in upstate New York and Long Branch: Entry for August 14, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 60.
“especially as…her husband”: FAS to LW, [July 1861?], reel 119, Seward Papers.
word came…“company in the evening”: Entry for September 9, 1861, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
“If things…my husband”: MTL, quoted in George B. Lincoln to GW, April 25, 1874, quoted in “New Light on the Seward-Welles-Lincoln Controversy,” Lincoln Lore 1718 (April 1981), p. 3.
“It makes me…skein of thread”: MTL, quoted in Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes. Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House. The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers Series (New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1868; New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 131.
the long evenings Lincoln spent at Seward’s: Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 186.
“My friend…churchwarden!”: Wilson, Intimate Memories of Lincoln, p. 422.
“a tithe…read for ever”: Entry for October 12, 1861, in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 26.
“personal courage…the enemy is”: Entry for October 10, 1861, in ibid., p. 25.
brought up the Chicago convention…“his life in his hand”: Entry for October 17, 1861, in ibid., pp. 26, 27.
probably rekindled memories…on the circuit: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 188.
the fighting…in Missouri: See Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. IV, chapter 11, esp. pp. 206–11; Thomas L. Snead, “The First Year of the War in Missouri,” in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. I, Part I, Grant-Lee edition (New