Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [611]
A Pennsylvanian politician…“out of both eyes”: “25 October 1863, Sunday,” in ibid., p. 100.
John Hay learned…Independent to his side: “28 November 1863, Saturday,” in ibid., p. 120.
“Chase’s mad hunt after the Presidency”: “29 October 1863, Thursday,” in ibid., p. 103.
“plowing corn…make his department go”: “[July–August 1863],” in ibid., pp. 78, 313 n143.
Lincoln agreed…“very bad taste”: AL, quoted in “18 October 1863, Sunday,” in ibid., p. 93.
“was sorry…that it ought to”: “29 October 1863, Thursday,” in ibid., p. 103.
Lincoln’s friends…“President’s interests”: Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, p. 176.
let “Chase have…what he asks”: “29 October 1863, Thursday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 103.
a “frank, guileless…for the first one”: Leonard Swett to WHH, January 17, 1866, in HI, pp. 168, 164.
After criticizing…“So I still work on”: SPC to James Watson Webb, November 7, 1863, reel 29, Chase Papers.
“all along clearly…from New Orleans”: AL, quoted in “18 October 1863, Sunday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 93.
“Chase would try…spot he can find”: “29 October 1863, Thursday,” in ibid., p. 103.
the people of Missouri…extinguish slavery: AL to Charles D. Drake and Others, October 5, 1863, in CW, VI, pp. 499–504; Foner, Reconstruction, pp. 41–42.
Governor Gamble worried…a conservative partisan: Hamilton R. Gamble to AL, October 1, 1863, Lincoln Papers.
He was accused…guise of military necessity: AL to Charles D. Drake and Others, October 5, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 500; “Conversation with Hon. M. S. Wilkinson, May 22 1876,” in Nicolay, An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 59–60; Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 299.
a delegation of radicals…“not to alienate them”: “29 September 1863, Tuesday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, pp. 88–89 (quote); Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 299.
“these Radical men…side with the Radicals”: AL, paraphrased in “10 December 1863, Thursday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 125.
“they are nearer…set Zionwards”: AL, quoted in “28 October 1863, Wednesday,” in ibid., p. 101.
resented the radicals’ demand…“short statutes of limitations”: “10 December 1863, Thursday,” in ibid., p. 125.
“So intense and fierce…saddest features of the times”: Entry for September 29, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 448.
“show that…powerful as they may be”: AL, quoted in “29 September 1863, Tuesday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, pp. 88–89.
an invitation to spend the evening: EB to J. O. Broadhead, October 24, 1863, Broadhead Papers, MoSHi.
“surprised and mortified…as traitors”: EB to Hamilton R. Gamble, October 10, 1863, Bates Papers, MoSHi (quote); entry for September 30, 1863, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 308.
Bates should hardly be…if he were to decide to run against Lincoln: Hamilton R. Gamble to EB, October 17, 1863, Bates Papers, MoSHi.
meeting with the Missourians…“instead of wind”: “30 September 1863, Wednesday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 89.
Lincoln listened attentively…remove him from command: AL to Charles D. Drake and Others, October 5, 1863, in CW, VI, pp. 500 (quotes), 503.
“The President never…his candid logic”: “30 September 1863, Wednesday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, pp. 89–90.
Lincoln emerged…“as he supposed”: Entry for September 30, 1863, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 308.
“whoever commands…or conservatives”: AL to Charles D. Drake and Others, October 5, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 504.
he wrote to remind…“injury to the Military”: AL to John M. Schofield, October 1, 1863, in ibid., p. 492.
leaning toward…“conflicting elements”: “13 December 1863, Sunday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 127.
he decided to replace him with Rosecrans: “Rosecrans, William Starke (1819–1898),” and “Schofield, John McAllister (1831–1906),” in Sifakis, Who Was Who in the Union, pp. 342, 355.
Before an overflowing crowd…Jefferson Davis himself: Speech by Frank Blair, reprinted in Missouri Republican, St. Louis, September 27, 1863.
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