Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [600]
“We have been…definite information”: JGN to TB, May 4, 1863, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
Welles joined Lincoln: Entry of May 4, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 291.
Bates was particularly tense…“dangerous service”: Entry for May 5, 1863, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 289.
Lincoln admitted…what was going on: EBL to SPL, May 4, 1863, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 264.
“no reliable…does not express them”: Entry for May 5, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 292–93.
“While I am anxious…or discomfort”: AL to Joseph Hooker, April 28, 1863, in CW, VI, pp. 189–90.
“God bless you…with despatches”: AL to Joseph Hooker, 9:40 a.m. telegram, May 6, 1863, in ibid., p. 199.
an unwelcome telegram…the order to retreat: Joseph Hooker to AL, May 6, 1863, Lincoln Papers; Sears, Chancellorsville, p. 492; Darius N. Couch, “The Chancellorsville Campaign,” in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. III, Pt. I, pp. 164 (first quote), 167, 169–71 (second and third quotes p. 171).
“I shall never forget…of despair”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 60.
“Had a thunderbolt…would again commence”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 179.
“ashen” face…“‘will the country say!’”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 61.
The president informed Senator Sumner…“I know not where”: Entry for May 6, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 293–94.
“This is the darkest day of the war”: JH paraphrasing EMS, quoted in Lincoln’s Third Secretary: The Memoirs of William O. Stoddard, ed. William O. Stoddard, Jr. (New York: Exposition Press, 1955), p. 173.
At the Willard…bound for Hooker’s headquarters: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 180.
“All accounts agree…back into the fray”: NYT, May 12, 1863.
casualties at Chancellorsville: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 645; Sears, Chancellorsville, pp. 492, 501.
death of Stonewall Jackson: James I. Robertson, Jr., “Jackson, Thomas Jonathan,” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 1065.
“Since the death…death of Jackson”: Richmond Whig, May 12, 1863.
“If possible”…ready to assist Hooker: AL to Joseph Hooker, May 7, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 201.
CHAPTER 20: “THE TYCOON IS IN FINE WHACK”
General Orders No. 38…tried by a military court: “General Orders, No. 38,” Department of the Ohio, April 13, 1863, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XXIII, Part II, p. 237.
“hurl King Lincoln from his throne”: Clement L. Vallandigham speech, May 1, 1863, quoted in Fletcher Pratt, Stanton: Lincoln’s Secretary of War (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1953), p. 289.
“The door resisted”…a side entrance: Cincinnati Commercial, quoted in Star, May 9, 1863.
found him guilty…habeas corpus was denied: Trial of Clement L. Vallandigham, enclosure in Ambrose E. Burnside to Henry W. Halleck, May 18, 1863, and General Orders, No. 68, Headquarters, Department of the Ohio, May 16, 1863, OR, Ser. 2, Vol. V, pp. 633–46; McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 597.
the Chicago Times…the paper down: Entry for June 3, 1863, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 632.
While he later admitted…uphold Burnside: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 597; entry for June 3, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 321.
Thurlow Weed deplored the arrest: TW to John Bigelow, June 27, 1863, in John Bigelow, Retrospective of an Active Life. Vol. II: 1863–1865 (New York: Baker & Taylor Co., 1909), p. 23.
Senator Trumbull…“government overthrown”: Entry for May 17, 1863, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 630.
“by a large and honest”…the loyal states: Nathaniel P. Tallmadge to WHS, May 24, 1863, Lincoln Papers.
Lincoln, searching…Confederate lines: Charles F. Howlett, “Vallandigham, Clement Laird,” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 2012.
his Copperhead body…“where his heart already was”: Schuyler Colfax to AL, June 13, 1863, Lincoln Papers.
“general satisfaction…power for