Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [575]
“The general…domestic treason”: Entry for December 29, 1861, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 198.
“Presidents and Kings…unselfish heart”: Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, p. 26.
“Houses are being…life in the Capital”: “Miriam,” Iowa State Register, Des Moines, November 13, 1861.
a mansion transformed: Randall, Mary Lincoln, pp. 258–63, 266; Monkman, The White House, pp. 123–33.
the new rugs…“roses at your feet”: Mary Clemmer Ames, Ten Years in Washington. Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman Sees Them (Hartford, Conn.: A. D. Worthington & Co., 1871), p. 171.
“The President’s…comparative beauty”: Daily Alta California, May 12, 1862, quoted in Monkman, The White House, p. 132.
“elegant fitting up…in the least arrogant”: George Bancroft to his wife, December 12 and 14, 1862, in M. A. DeWolfe Howe, The Life and Letters of George Bancroft, Vol. II (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1908), pp. 144–45.
she had overspent…extra money over to her: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 187, 191.
She had replaced…the manure account: Entry for November 3, 1861, in William Howard Russell’s Civil War: Private Diary and Letters, 1861–1862, ed. Martin Crawford (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, 1992), p. 162.
She exchanged her patronage…wealthy donors: For a general discussion of MTL’s financial finagling, see Michael Burlingame, “Mary Todd Lincoln’s Unethical Conduct as First Lady,” appendix 2 in At Lincoln’s Side: John Hay’s Civil War Correspondence and Selected Writings, ed. Michael Burlingame (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000).
she asked John Hay…“the Steward’s salary”: JH to JGN, April 4 and 5, 1862, in ibid., pp. 19–20.
She had no recourse…to speak with her husband: Entry for December 16, 1861, in Benjamin Brown French, Witness to the Young Republic: A Yankee’s Journal, 1828–1870, ed. Donald B. Cole and John J. McDonough (Hanover, N.H., and London: University Press of New England, 1989), p. 382.
after he returned home…Edward Baker: NR, December 14, 1861.
“inexorable…his own pocket!”: Entry for December 16, 1861, in French, Witness to the Young Republic, p. 382.
“better and better…will defend her”: Entry for December 22, 1861, in ibid., p. 383.
hide a deficiency appropriation: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 190.
“I need hardly…his own expences”: SPC to KCS, October 25, 1861, reel 17, Chase Papers.
a questionable relationship…investment account for Chase: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, pp. 36–37.
“I will take…working as you do”: Jay Cooke to SPC, quoted in ibid., p. 37.
growth in size of the Union army: Simon Cameron to AL, December 1, 1861, OR, Ser. 3, Vol. I pp. 669, 700.
“incapable…general plans”: “A Private Paper. Conversation with the President, October 2d, 1861,” memorandum, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
“he would look…in the other”: Albert Gallatin Riddle, Recollection of War Times: Reminiscences of Men and Events in Washington, 1860–1865 (New York and London: G. P. Putman’s Sons, 1895), p. 180.
accusations of corruption…in the War Department: NYT, July 3 and 9, and August 28, 1861.
Congress appointed…Cameron was not charged: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 293; Macartney, Lincoln and His Cabinet, pp. 35–36; Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, pp. 222–23.
“It is better…with dissolution”: NYT, July 7, 1861.
Cameron sought…Republicans: Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 59.
“We agreed…in that opinion”: SPC to Trowbridge, March 31, 1844, quoted in Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, p. 420.
“extremist measures…absolute ruin”: National Intelligencer, Washington, D.C., November 14, 1861.
heated arguments with Bates, Blair, and Smith: Entry for November 20, 1862, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 203; Niven, Gideon Welles, p. 392.
Cameron maintained…“nigger hobby”: MB, paraphrased in entry of September 12, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 127 (quote); Bradley, Simon Cameron, p. 203.
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