Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [599]
the escalating storm…to the dinner menu: Brooks, “A Boy in the White House,” St. Nicholas (1882), p. 62.
“the chief magistrate…firing a shot”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, pp. 148–49.
“at its height”…a special train: Sun, Baltimore, Md., April 7, 1863 (quote); Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 149.
“snow piled in huge…over the hills”: NYH, April 10, 1863 (quotes); Brooks, Washington, D.C. in Lincoln’s Time, p. 52.
Hooker’s headquarters…133,000 soldiers: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, pp. 150–51; Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol. II: Fredericksburg to Meridian (New York: Random House, 1963: New York: Vintage Books, 1986), p. 235.
General Hooker and his accommodations: Entry for April 27, 1863, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers; NYH, April 10, 1863; Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 150.
“I believe you to be…give us victories”: AL to Joseph Hooker, January 26, 1863, in CW, VI, pp. 78–79.
was so moved by…printed in gold letters: Anson G. Henry to his wife, April 12, 1863, transcribed in “Another Hooker Letter,” ALQ 2 (1942), p. 11.
“That is just such…man who wrote it”: Joseph Hooker, quoted in Brooks, Washington, D.C. in Lincoln’s Time, p. 57.
Mary’s curiosity…“pleasant to her”: NYH, April 10, 1863 (quote); Star, April 7, 1863; Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 150.
reported badinage between…“‘sort of rebel’”: Brooks, Washington, D.C. in Lincoln’s Time, p. 59.
Stormy weather…“shafts of wit”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 150; NYH, April 10, 1863 (quote).
The roar of artillery…“among them”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 53; NYH, April 11, 1863; Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 153 (quote).
his gray cloak…faithfully by his side: Brooks, “A Boy in the White House,” St. Nicholas (1882), p. 62.
“And thereby hangs…folds of the banners”: NYH, April 11, 1863.
At the review of the infantry…“far away”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, pp. 154, 158–59 (quote).
he extended his visit: Ibid., p. 161.
“the former stood…turn their backs”: NYH, April 10, 1863.
rebel camps across the river…stars and bars: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, pp. 155–56.
Union pickets…“belonging to friendly armies”: Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, p. 162 (first quote); NYH, April 10, 1863 (last quote).
a Confederate officer…“politely and retired”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 156.
“It was a saddening…should arrive”: Ibid., pp. 153–54.
issued one final directive…all your men”: AL, quoted in Couch, “Sumner’s ‘Right Grand Division,’” in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. III, Pt. I, p. 120.
boarded the Carrie Martin…“flags displayed”: NYH, April 12, 1863.
were defending James S. Pleasants…“very bitter”: EBL to SPL, April 16, 1863, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 259 (quotes); Court-martial file of James Snowden Pleasants, file MM-15, entry 15, RG 153, DNA; Sun, Baltimore, Md., April 9, 1863.
sent the Peterhoff…to the Navy Department: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 350–51; Monaghan, Diplomat in Carpet Slippers, pp. 303–04.
led to rumors of…“from the real question”: Entries for April 23–28, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 285–87 (quotes p. 287).
Montgomery Blair also sided…“in the Cabinet”: Entry for April 17, 1863, ibid., pp. 274–75 (quote p. 275).
“I feel that…my present position”: SPC to AL, March 2, 1863, Lincoln Papers.
This squabble was provoked…“my resignation”: SPC to AL, May 11, 1863, Lincoln Papers.
“Chase’s feelings were hurt”: AL to Anson G. Henry, May 13, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 215.
he called at Chase’s…“I finally succeeded”: Field, Memories of Many Men, p. 303.
$45 million in bonds…“as do ours”: NYT, May 3, 1863.
he placed his prickly secretary’s third resignation: Riddle, Recollections of War Times, p. 273.
Blair, meanwhile, resented Chase…“private counsellor”: Entry for May 10, 1863, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, pp. 290–91.
the Battle of Chancellorsville: See Stephen W. Sears, Chancellorsville (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1996); Stanley S. McGowen, “Chancellorsville, Battle of,” in Encyclopedia