Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [597]
The time had come…let her go: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 70.
Saulsbury…removed from the Senate floor: Ibid., pp. 87–88.
“baneful…only for the negro”: Andrew H. Foote, paraphrased in entry for January 9, 1863, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 611.
Orville Browning, who considered…“the government”: Entry for January 26, 1863, in ibid., p. 620.
“conversed with…will re enlist”: Entry for January 29, 1863, in ibid., pp. 620–21 (quotes p. 621).
“the alarming condition…a fixed thing”: Entry for January 19, 1863, in ibid., p. 616.
“the democrats would soon…leave them”: Entry for January 26, 1863, in ibid., p. 620.
“The resources…can be maintained”: AL, “To the Workingmen of London,” February 2, 1863, in CW, VI, pp. 88–89.
the people’s representatives had passed: See Curry, Blueprint for Modern America.
“the grandest pledge…means to prevail”: NYT, February 20, 1863.
“largest popular gathering…home of the brave”: NYT, April 21, 1863.
“the greatest popular…in Washington”: Daily Morning Chronicle, Washington, D.C., April 1, 1863.
Lincoln was dressed…of his father’s embrace: Jane Grey Swisshelm, quoted in St. Cloud [Minn.] Democrat, April 9, 1863, in Frank Klement, “Jane Grey Swisshelm and Lincoln: A Feminist Fusses and Frets,” Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 6 (December 1950), pp. 235–36.
Lincoln sent a telegram to Thurlow Weed…“and so I sent for you”: AL, quoted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, pp. 434–35.
The amount needed was $15,000: Ibid., p. 435; AL to TW, February 19, 1862, in CW, VI, pp. 112–13.
“to influence…Connecticut elections”: Entry for February 10, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 235.
“a stunning blow to the Copperheads”: NYT, April 8, 1863.
“puts the Administration…seas to the end”: NYT, April 9, 1863.
“frightened”…depress voter sentiment: JH to Mrs. Charles Hay, April 23, 1863, in Hay, At Lincoln’s Side, p. 38.
“I rejoiced…the War commenced”: EMS to Isabella Beecher Hooker, May 6, 1863, in Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 160.
“The feeling of…everywhere manifest”: JGN to TB, March 22, 1863, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
“The glamour…the denunciations”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 138.
when Lincoln engaged…“be crippled”: Entry for January 17, 1863, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
“Well…not one has got there yet”: AL, quoted in “Personal,” Daily Morning Chronicle, Washington, D.C., May 2, 1863.
“smoking cigars…‘good victuals’”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 175.
At one dinner party…“[had] ever known”: Entry for January 28, 1863, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 292.
welcome diversion in the telegraph office: Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, pp. 41–42, 143, 190.
“Abe was in…‘none anywhere else’”: AL, quoted in entry for April 21, 1863, in Dahlgren, Memoir of John A. Dahlgren, p. 390.
“a little after midnight…queer little conceits”: Entry for April 30, 1864, in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 194.
“Only those…heart bleeds”: MTL to Mary Janes Welles, February 21, 1863, reel 35, Welles Papers.
Mary had gamely resumed…“to bear up”: MTL to Benjamin B. French, March 10, 1863, in Thomas F. Schwartz and Kim M. Bauer, “Unpublished Mary Todd Lincoln,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 17 (Summer 1996), p. 5.
“affable and pleasant…out of sight”: Entry for February 22, 1863, in French, Witness to the Young Republic, p. 417.
“much shorter…his composition”: Entry for February 12, 1863, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
In gratitude to Rebecca Pomroy…“look their best”: Boyden, Echoes from Hospital and White House, pp. 131–32.
“brilliantly lighted…children’s children”: Pomroy, quoted in ibid., pp. 132–33.
Swisshelm had initially…“and its cause”: Jane Grey Swisshelm, Half a Century (Chicago: J. G. Swisshelm, 1880), pp. 236–37 (quotes p. 237).
Mary was delighted…Nettie Colburn: Nettie Colburn Maynard, Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist?, or Curious Revelations from the Life of a Trance Medium (Philadelphia: Rufus C. Hartranft, 1891), p. 83.
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