Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [579]
More than a thousand troops: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 401.
“a most bloody…brought through”: Captain L. D. Waddell to William Coventry H. Wadell, quoted in NYT, February 26, 1862.
Hundred-gun salutes: NYT, February 18, 1862.
“quite wild with Excitement”: Entry for February 15, 1862, Taft diary.
“the gallery rose…enthusiastic cheers”: NYT, February 18, 1862.
to illuminate the capital’s public buildings…Washington’s birthday: NYH, February 21, 1862.
promoting him to major general: Entry for February 17, 1862, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 95.
Lincoln had been following: Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. I, p. 462.
“I have come among you…fellow-citizen”: USG, “Proclamation, to the Citizens of Paducah!” September 6, 1861, The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Vol. II: April–September 1861, ed. John Y. Simon (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969), p. 194.
“Grant had taken the field”…items to the front: Isaac N. Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, & Co., 1885), p. 281.
Fort Donelson’s capture…capture of New Orleans: For more on events from the surrender of Fort Donelson to the capture of New Orleans, see McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 402–20.
It is believed that both boys…typhoid fever: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 208: Seale, The President’s House, Vol. I, p. 379.
Willie was affected…more severely: MTL to Julia Ann Sprigg, May 29, 1862, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 128; Milton H. Shutes, “Mortality of the Five Lincoln Boys,” Lincoln Herald 57 (Spring– Summer 1955), p. 4.
“grew weaker…shadow-like”: Keckley, Behind the Scenes, p. 98.
symptoms of his illness: “Typhus, Typhoid, and Relapsing Fevers,” Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. XXIII, ed. Day Otis Kellogg (30 vols., New York and Chicago: The Werner Company, 1898), pp. 678–79.
“almost wore…with watching”: Benjamin B. French to Henry F. French, February 27, 1862, reel 5, Papers of Benjamin B. French Family, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress [hereafter French Family Papers, DLC].
She canceled the customary: Unknown Washington newspaper, quoted in Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 197.
“pretty much all his attention”: JGN to TB, February 11, 1862, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
Willie would call for…“tenderly to bed”: Bayne, Tad Lincoln’s Father, pp. 199–200.
celebratory illuminations were canceled: Entry for February 23, 1862, in French, Witness to the Young Republic, p. 388; Benjamin B. French to Henry F. French, February 27, 1862, reel 5, French Family Papers, DLC.
“the President…of their affliction”: Star, February 18, 1862.
“as if they did…So the doctors say”: Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, p. 66.
on Thursday, February 20, Willie died: Entry for February 20, 1862, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 96.
“Well, Nicolay…actually gone!”: Entry for February 20, 1862, notebook, February–March 1862, container 1, Nicolay Papers.
“buried his head…ofher old age”: Keckley, Behind the Scenes, pp. 103, 104.
She took to her bed…ease her grief: Rebecca R. Pomroy to “Mary,” March 27, 1862, Rebecca R. Pomroy Letters, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College [hereafter Pomroy Letters].
He sent his carriage to the Brownings…Tad’s bedside: Entries for February 20 and 21, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 530.
He asked…Mary Jane, to sit with the boy: Niven, Gideon Welles, pp. 442–43.
Julia Bates…also watched over him: Entry for February 22, 1862, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 236.
Lincoln turned to Dorothea Dix: Anna L. Boyden, Echoes from Hospital and White House: A Record of Mrs. Rebecca R. Pomroy’s Experience in War-times (Boston: D. Lothrop & Co., 1884), p. 52.
a powerful woman…“out of fashion”: Dorothy Clarke Wilson, Stranger and Traveler: The Story of Dorothea Dix, American Reformer (Boston: Little, Brown, 1975), p. 256.
Dix chose Rebecca Pomroy…“turn right in”: Pomroy to “Mary,” March 27, 1862, Pomroy Letters.
Willie’s body lay…“Oh, why is it?”: AL, quoted in Boyden, Echoes from Hospital