Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [598]
“Welcome, Mr. Lincoln…I was coming”: Mr. Laurie and AL, quoted in Maynard, Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist?, p. 83.
The guests settled into…“easy chairs of the day”: S. P. Kase, quoted in J. J. Fitzgerrell, Lincoln Was a Spiritualist (Los Angeles: Austin Publishing Co., 1924), pp. 18–19.
“Well, Miss Nettie…say to me to-night?”: Maynard, Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist?, p. 85.
There is no evidence that Lincoln…“learn the secret”: “Lord Colchester—Spirit Medium,” Lincoln Lore, no. 1497 (November 1962), p. 4.
She spoke for an hour…“not this wonderful?”: S. P. Kase, quoted in Fitzgerrell, Lincoln Was a Spiritualist, pp. 20–21.
“I have neither…I must resume it”: SPC to Horace Greeley, January 28, 1863, reel 24, Chase Papers.
Chase became physically ill…make it through: SPC to Richard C. Parsons, February 16, 1863, reel 25, Chase Papers.
his own handsome face…every dollar bill: SPC, “Going Home to Vote.” Authentic Speeches of S. P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, During His Visit to Ohio, with His Speeches at Indianapolis, and at the Mass Meeting in Baltimore, October, 1863 (Washington, D.C.: W. H. Moore, 1863), p. 25; Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 176.
his own strained finances…bonds to the public: SPC to Jay Cooke, June 2, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers.
Charles Benjamin…quickly make amends: Benjamin, “Recollections of Secretary Edwin M. Stanton,” Century (1887), p. 759.
asked why he disliked…“detested it”: Entry for April 25, 1863, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 314.
“nervous irritability”: E. D. Townsend, Anecdotes of the Civil War in the United States (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1884), p. 136.
his asthma…consent to seek rest: Benjamin, “Recollections of Secretary Edwin M. Stanton,” Century (1887), pp. 759–60.
he enjoyed reading…attitude to the war: Ibid., p. 766; Johnson, “Reminiscences of the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton,” RCHS (1910), p. 80 (quote).
Stanton refused to bring…remained at his post: Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 161; Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, pp. 165–66.
“would rather make”…ask Stanton for a favor: JH to JGN, November 25, 1863, quoted in Hay, At Lincoln’s Side, p. 69.
Even when Stanton’s own son…an official appointment: Johnson, “Reminiscences of the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton,” RCHS (1910), p. 92.
rarely returned to Steubenville…for the funeral in Ohio: NYT, April 14, 1863; Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 130a.
Pamphila’s conviction…died from overwork: Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 159.
the War Department utilize the services…“to Mr. Capen”: AL, “Memorandum Concerning Francis L. Capen’s Weather Forecasts,” April 28, 1863, in CW, VI, pp. 190–91.
warring factions in Missouri…“hold of the case”: AL to Henry T. Blow, Charles D. Drake and Others, May 15, 1863, in ibid., p. 218.
hastily written note to General Franz Sigel…“keep it up”: AL to Franz Sigel, February 5, 1863, in ibid., p. 93.
The story is told: AL, quoted in Pinsker, Lincoln’s Sanctuary, pp. 52–53.
Carl Schurz laid the blame…“We parted as better friends than ever”: Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. II, pp. 393–96.
excursion to Falmouth: Noah Brooks, “A Boy in the White House,” St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 10 (November 1882), p. 62; Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, pp. 147–64.
“one of the purest…in the world”: Anson G. Henry to his wife, April 12, 1863, transcribed in “Another Hooker Letter,” Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 2 (March 1942), pp. 10–11.
Bates agreed…spring battles began: Entry for April 4, 1863, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 288.
weather conditions: Sun, Baltimore, Md., April 6, 1863; entry for April 4, 1863, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 287; Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 51.
the steamer Carrie Martin…of George Washington: Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, p. 185; Noah Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, ed. Herbert Mitgang (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971; Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, 1989),