Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [587]
“this quiet and beautiful…along the hills”: Iowa State Register, Des Moines, July 2, 1862.
At Mary’s urging: Pinsker, Lincoln’s Sanctuary, pp. 4–5.
“We are truly…to Cambridge”: MTL to Mrs. Charles Eames, July 26, [1862], in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 131.
For Tad…campfire at night: Pinsker, Lincoln’s Sanctuary, p. 78.
the Lincolns could entertain…among family and friends: Ibid., pp. 9–10.
“helped him…attorney in Illinois”: Ibid., pp. 15 (quote), 81–82.
“daily habit…in the District”: Saturday Evening Post, June 21, 1862.
“But for these humane…lost her child”: Mrs. E. F. Ellet, The Court Circles of the Republic (Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Publishing Co., 1869; New York: Arno Press, 1975), p. 526.
“little cares…into nothing”: Walt Whitman to Louisa Whitman, December 29, 1862, in Walt Whitman, The Wound Dresser: A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington During the War of the Rebellion, ed. Richard Maurice Bucke (Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1898; Folcroft, Penn.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1975), p. 48.
“nothing of ordinary…it used to”: Walt Whitman to Louisa Whitman, August 25, 1863, in ibid., p. 104.
“to form an immense army”: NYTrib, July 9, 1862.
steamers arrived…Ambulances stood by: NR, June 30, 1862.
a massive project of…military hospitals: see NR, June 17–23, 1862; Iowa State Register, Des Moines, July 9, 1862.
Union Hotel Hospital…“sup their wine”: NR, January 9, 1862.
“many of the doors…could christen it”: Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches (New York: Sagamore Press, 1957), p. 59.
The Braddock House…old chairs and desks: Freeman, The Boys in White, p. 37.
the Patent Office…transformed into a hospital ward: NR, June 27 and September 2, 1862.
“a curious scene…pavement under foot”: Walt Whitman, quoted in NYT, February 26, 1863.
the Methodist Episcopal Church on 20th Street: NR, June 18, 1862.
covering pews…laboratory and kitchen: NR, June 23, 1862.
more than three thousand patients: NR, April 11, 1862.
baskets of fruit…pillows of wounded men: NYTrib, August 13, 1862 (quote); Ellet, The Court Circles of the Republic, p. 526; AL to Hiram P. Barney, August 16, 1862, in CW, V, pp. 377–78.
One wounded soldier…signature: MTL to “Mrs. Agen,” August 10, 1864, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 179.
of “commanding stature…for it so eagerly”: Alcott, Hospital Sketches, pp. 89–92, 99–100, 103, 104.
“singularly cool…(full of maggots)”: Walt Whitman to Louisa Whitman, October 6, 1863, in Whitman, The Wound Dresser, pp. 123–24.
“heap of feet”…hospital grounds: Walt Whitman to Louisa Whitman, December 29, 1862, in ibid., p. 48.
she found it difficult…“wounded occupant”: Alcott, Hospital Sketches, p. 59.
“Death itself…such a relief”: Walt Whitman to Louisa Whitman, August 25, 1863, in Whitman, The Wound Dresser, p. 104.
“was so blackened”…eventually recovered: Amanda Stearns to her sister, May 14, 1863, reprinted in Amanda Akin Stearns, The Lady Nurse of Ward E (New York: Baker & Taylor Co., 1909), pp. 25–26 (quote p. 25).
Another youth…“on the Judgment Day”: Alcott, Hospital Sketches, pp. 62–63 (quote p. 63).
“If she were worldly wise…many journals”: Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, p. 48.
“While her sister-women…the White House”: Ames, Ten Years in Washington, p. 237.
Mary continued…work discreetly: Chicago Tribune, July 4, 1872; Mary Elizabeth Massey, Bonnet Brigades (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966), p. 44.
“our ever-bountiful benefactress & friend”: NR, December 27, 1861.
“an angel of mercy”: NR, June 27, 1862.
Lincoln had asked the legislature: AL, “Message to Congress,” March 6, 1862, in CW, V, pp. 144–46.
“less than one half-day’s”…border states combined: AL to James A. McDougall, March 14, 1862, in CW, V, p. 160.
“to surrender…the Union dissolved”: NYT, July 13, 1862.
If the rebels…lose heart: AL, “Message to Congress,” March 6, 1862, in CW, V, p. 145.
“emancipation in any form…the Border States”: Editors’ note on majority reply to AL, “Appeal to Border State Representatives to Favor Compensated Emancipation,” July 12, 1862,