Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [580]
Tad would awaken…gown and slippers: Pomroy to “Mary,” March 27, 1862, Pomroy Letters.
Lincoln drove with Browning to Oak Hill Cemetery: Entry for February 23, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 531.
The funeral service…in the East Room: National Intelligencer, Washington, D.C., February 25, 1862; Star, February 24, 1862.
“keep the boys…in the casket”: Bayne, Tad Lincoln’s Father, p. 200.
“He lay with his eyes…for the evening”: Nathaniel Parker Willis, quoted in Keckley, Behind the Scenes, p. 108.
“no spectator”…the East Room service: Entry for March 2, 1862, in French, Witness to the Young Republic, p. 389.
Congress had adjourned: Star, February 24, 1862; National Intelligencer, Washington, D.C., February 25, 1862; entry for February 24, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 531.
a frightful storm arose: Benjamin B. French to Henry F. French, February 27, 1862, reel 5, French Family Papers, DLC; Star, February 25, 1862.
stormy weather…the grave: William G. Greene interview, May 30, 1865, in HI, p. 21.
Mary found it difficult to endure: Elizabeth Todd Edwards to Julia Edwards Baker, quoted in Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 287.
She never invited them back to the White House: Bayne, Tad Lincoln’s Father, p. 200.
In her talks with Mrs. Pomroy…her own family: Boyden, Echoes from Hospital and White House, pp. 58–59.
she should surrender to God’s will: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 214.
“to try us…is not with us”: MTL to Julia Ann Sprigg, May 29, 1862, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 128.
speculating that God…“of little else”: MTL to Hannah Shearer, November 20, 1864, in ibid., p. 189.
“foresaken…so lovely a child”: MTL to Mrs. Charles Eames, July 26, 1862, in ibid., p. 131.
“far happier…when on earth”: MTL to Mary Jane Welles, February 21, 1863, in ibid., p. 147.
“Death…blessed transition”: MTL to CS, July 4, 1865, in ibid., p. 256.
“where there are…no more tears shed”: MTL to Mary Jane Welles, July 11, 1865, in ibid., p. 257.
Through Elizabeth Keckley…celebrated medium: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 219.
the “veil…the ‘loved & lost’”: MTL to CS, July 4, 1865, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 256.
“the spirits of the dead…have become alive”: Princess Felix Salm-Salm, Ten Years of My Life (Detroit: Belford Bros., 1877), pp. 59, 60.
“offered tangible…power of sympathy”: Robert S. Cox, Body and Soul: A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2003), p. 85.
“an altered woman”…look at his picture: Keckley, Behind the Scenes, p. 116.
She sent all his toys…was laid out: Ibid., pp. 116–17; Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 210, 213.
On the Thursday…his terrible grief: Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, p. 67.
“That blow…never felt it before”: AL, quoted by Rev. Willets, in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 187–88.
Three months after…“my lost boy Willie”: AL, quoted in Le Grand B. Cannon, Personal Reminiscences of the Rebellion, 1861–1866. Black Heritage Library Collection (1895; Freeport, N.Y.: Books For Libraries Press, 1971), p. 174; the quotation from King John is in Act III, scene IV.
Lincoln cherished mementos…and tell stories: Randall, Mary Lincoln, pp. 291–92.
he invited Browning…important events: Entry for June 22, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 553.
“the memory…you have known before”: AL to Fanny McCullough, December 23, 1862, in CW, VI, p. 17.
CHAPTER 16: “HE WAS SIMPLY OUT-GENERALED”
the “sad calamity…be left undone”: GBM to AL, February 22, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
McClellan’s assurances…contentious meeting: Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, pp. 77–84; Bruce Tap, “Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War (1861–1865),” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 1086.
“that neither…defer to General McClellan”: George W. Julian, Political Recollections, 1840 to 1872 (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1884), p. 201.
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