Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [595]
Word had already leaked…“course of difficulties”: Henry Cooke to Jay Cooke, December 20, 1862, in Oberholtzer, Jay Cooke, pp. 224, 226 (quotes p. 226).
“had been painfully…neither of you longer”: Entry for December 20, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 201–02.
Lincoln wrote a letter…“your Departments respectively”: AL to WHS and SPC, December 20, 1862, in CW, VI, p. 12.
“Seward comforts…deems a necessity”: Entry for December 23, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 205.
“Yes, Judge…end of my bag!”: AL, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, p. 148.
“I have cheerfully…to your command”: WHS to AL, December 21, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
“come as soon as possible”: Entry for December 22, 1862, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
“Will you allow me…than in your cabinet”: SPC to AL, December 20, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
When Chase received…return to the Treasury: SPC to AL, December 22, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
“Seward was feeling…had been for weeks”: Entry for December 23, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 205.
Seward magnanimously invited…Christmas Eve: SPC to FWS, December 24, 1862, reel 24, Chase Papers.
“a triumph over…drive him out”: JGN to TB, December 23, 1862, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
Chase declined…“his hospitality”: SPC to FWS, December 24, 1862, reel 24, Chase Papers.
“she regretted”…exception of Monty Blair: EBL to SPL, January 14, [1863], in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 231.
a visit to a Georgetown spiritualist…“had success”: Entry for January 1, 1863, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, pp. 608–09.
“I do not now see…I put it through”: “30 October 1863, Friday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 104.
CHAPTER 19: “FIRE IN THE REAR”
a “general air of doubt”: NYT, December 27, 1862.
“Will Lincoln’s…Nobody knows”: Entry for December 30, 1862, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 284.
As Frederick Douglass…give up ground: Douglass’ Monthly (October 1862).
The final proclamation…“upon this act”: Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), pp. 178–81, 254–60 (quotes p. 260); entry for December 31, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 210–11.
On the morning…fitful sleep: Quarles, Lincoln and the Negro, p. 140; Guelzo, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, p. 181.
He then met with General Burnside…offered to resign: Conversations with Lincoln, ed. Charles M. Segal (1961; New Brunswick, N.J., and London: Transaction Publishers, 2002), pp. 232–34 (quote p. 232); Donald, Lincoln, pp. 409–11.
he would replace Burnside with “Fighting Joe” Hooker: Entry for January 25, 1863, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 165.
A West Point graduate…at Antietam: “Hooker, Joseph (1814–1879),” in Sifakis, Who Was Who in the Union, pp. 199–200.
Seward returned…for correction: Guelzo, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, p. 181.
New Year’s reception…“trimming on the waist”: Entry for January 1, 1863, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
“looking like a fairy queen”: EBL to SPL, January 1, 1863, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 224.
“Oh how pretty she is”: Entry for January 1, 1863, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
the gates to the White House…shake the president’s hand: Noah Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington: Selections from the Writings of Noah Brooks, Civil War Correspondent, ed. P. J. Staudenraus (South Brunswick, N.J.: Thomas Yoseloff, 1967), pp. 58–60.
“grievously altered…cavernous eyes”: Ibid., p. 29.
“his blessed…People’s Levee”: Ibid., p. 60.
“Oh Mr. French…remain until it ended”: Benjamin B. French, quoted in Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 320.
At Chase’s mansion…“china, glass, and silver”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, pp. 61–62.
“little, aristocratic”…years as a lawyer: Ibid., p. 176.
Stanton’s salary…Ellen’s dreams: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 392.
At 2 p.m…. soon joined him: Guelzo, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, p. 182.
he “took a pen”…put the pen down: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 269.
“I never…signing this