Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [583]
While Kate hosted…lively, entertaining conversation: Phelps, Kate Chase, Dominant Daughter, pp. 111–12.
“Diplomats and statesmen…the Bourbons”: Washington Post, August 1, 1899.
the Chase home…a forum: Ross, Proud Kate, pp. 78, 93.
“parlor politics”: For more on Washington women using entertaining for political purposes see Catherine Allgor, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2000).
a “rival court”: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, p. 33.
the proclamation of General David Hunter: General Orders No. 11, May 9, 1862, quoted in AL, “Proclamation Revoking General Hunter’s Order of Military Emancipation of May 9, 1862,” May 19, 1862, in CW, V, p. 222.
“It seems to me…your Administration”: SPC to AL, May 16, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
“No commanding general…consulting me”: AL to SPC, [May 17, 1862], in CW, V, p. 219.
“dissatisfaction…believe would follow”: AL, “Appeal to Border State Representatives to Favor Compensated Emancipation,” July 12, 1862, in ibid., p. 318.
“among the more advanced…pusillanimity”: Carl Schurz to AL, May 19, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
“all the more warmly…of Hunter’s proclamation”: SPC to Horace Greeley, May 21, 1862, reel 20, Chase Papers.
Rumors began to surface: NYT, May 20, 1862.
“The cabin”…his “inexhaustible stock”: Viele, “A Trip with Lincoln, Chase, and Stanton,” Scribners Monthly (1878), pp. 813–14.
“called up by…behind his back”: Entry for April 19, 1862, in Madeline Vinton Dahlgren, Memoir of John A. Dahlgren, Rear-Admiral United States Navy (Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1882), p. 364 n2.
“muscular power…in vain to imitate him”: Viele, “A Trip with Lincoln, Chase, and Stanton,” Scribners Monthly (1878), pp. 815–16.
pored over maps…around Virginia: Ibid., p. 815; William E. Baringer, “On Enemy Soil: President Lincoln’s Norfolk Campaign,” Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 7 (March 1952), p. 6.
Union forces at Fort Monroe: “Map of Hampton Roads and Adjacent Shore,” in John Taylor Wood, “The First Fight of Iron-Clads,” in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. I, Part 2, p. 699. The mouths of the James, Nansemond, and Elizabeth rivers all converge at Hampton Roads.
Merrimac…devastating engagements: Gene A. Smith, “Monitor versus Virginia (8 March 1862),” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 1348. Although the Confederates had rechristened the ironclad the CSS Virginia, the vessel continued to be known by its previous name, the Merrimac.
“It is a disgrace…cannot cope”: Montgomery C. Meigs, quoted in Gorham, Life and Public Services of Edwin M. Stanton, Vol. I, p. 371.
An emergency cabinet meeting…“presence”: Niven, Gideon Welles, p. 403.
Monitor…“cheese box on a raft”: Entry for October 10, 1862, in French, Witness to the Young Republic, p. 412.
“a pigmy to a giant”: NYT, March 14, 1862 (quote); NYT, March 11, 1862.
When Stanton learned…“with diamonds”: NYT, March 16, 1862.
“The ringing of those plates”: Herman Melville, “A Utilitarian View of the Monitor’s Fight,” in The Works of Herman Melville, Vol. XVI (London: Constable & Co., 1924), pp. 44, 45.
huddled over maps…Navy Yard vulnerable: Baringer, “On Enemy Soil,” ALQ 7 (1952), p. 8; Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol. I: Fort Sumter to Perryville (New York: Random House, 1958; New York: Vintage Books, 1986), p. 414.
Lincoln and his little group…“Treasury to follow”: SPC to Janet Chase Hoyt, May 7, 1862, reel 20, Chase Papers.
one leg permanently damaged: Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 131.
Goldsborough approved…across the water: Foote, The Civil War, Vol. I, p. 414.
“a smoke curled…turned back”: SPC to Janet Chase Hoyt, May 8, 1862, quoted in Warden, Private Life and Public Services, p. 428.
each personally surveyed…delay the attack: SPC to Janet Chase Hoyt, May 11, 1862, reel 20, Chase Papers; Baringer, “On Enemy Soil,” ALQ (1952),