Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [620]
recalled bringing…“pleasant interval” from his work: William Kelley, in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1886 edn.), pp. 264–67, 270.
“Edwin Booth has done…any other man”: Lucia Gilbert Calhoun, “Edwin Booth,” Galaxy 7 (January 1869), p. 85.
captivated audiences…generation: Richard Lockridge, Darling of Misfortune: Edwin Booth, 1833–1893 (New York: Century Co., 1932; New York: Benjamin Blom, 1971), pp. 14, 24, 38–39, 56, 78–79, 81; Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 22 (April 1861), p. 702; E. C. Stedman, “Edwin Booth,” Atlantic Monthly 17 (May 1866), p. 589.
Lincoln and Seward attended…Merchant of Venice: Entries for February 19, 25, 26; March 2, 4, and 10, 1864, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, pp. 241–45; NR, March 3, 5, and 10, 1864; Grover, “Lincoln’s Interest in the Theater,” Century (1909), p. 946.
Booth came to dinner…“want of body in wine”: Entry for March 1864, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
anticipating Booth’s Hamlet…“upon the stage”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 49–51 (quotep. 51).
“laugh…‘ “Midsummer Night’s Dream” ’”: Ibid., p. 150.
Chase and Bates considered…“Satanic diversion”: Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 10.
Stanton came only once…Tad loved the theater: Grover, “Lincoln’s Interest in the Theater,” Century (1909), pp. 946, 944–45.
Tad would laugh…“seeing clearly why”: “24 April 1864, Sunday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 188.
“felt at home”…actually appeared in a play: Grover, “Lincoln’s Interest in the Theater,” Century (1909), p. 945.
who broke down in tears…and the Taft boys: Bayne, Tad Lincoln’s Father, p. 201.
arrived in the nation’s capital: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 290.
Congress had revived…the Western armies: Smith, Grant, pp. 284, 286, 293, 294.
He walked into the Willard…the accommodations: Smith, Grant, p. 289; Brooks D. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822–1865 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000), pp. 258–59.
Grant took his son…and took a bow: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 290 (quotes); Smith, Grant, p. 289.
walked over to the White House…“a tone of familiarity”: Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant (New York: Century Co., 1897; New York: Konecky & Konecky, 1992), pp. 18–19.
“a degree of awkwardness”: Entry for March 9, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 538.
Lincoln referred him to Seward: Smith, Grant, pp. 289–90; entry for March 9, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 538–39.
“laces were torn…much mixed”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 290.
Seward rapidly maneuvered…see his face: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 56.
“He blushed…and over his face”: NYH, March 12, 1864.
“his warmest campaign during the war”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 56.
The president…“walk it abreast”: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, p. 20.
Grant wanted nothing more…“presidential chair”: J. Russell Jones recollections, quoted in Tarbell, Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II (1917 edn.), pp. 187–88.
made their way back…Grant wrote out his statement: Smith, Grant, p. 290; Memorandum, March 9, 1864, container 3, Nicolay Papers.
“quite embarrassed…difficult to read”: Memorandum, March 9, 1864, container 3, Nicolay Papers.
went upstairs to talk…assistance was needed: Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, p. 370.
Grant journeyed…“‘show’ business!”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 57.
“trappings and…canopy of heaven”: Elihu Washburne, quoted in Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, p. 510.
his preference for pork…“in spasms”: NYT, March 31, 1864.
“was done exactly…into history”: McFeely, Grant, p. 152.
“unusually backward”…end of the month: Entry for May 1, 1864, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 363.
“stormy and inclement…of the Old Dominion”: Dispatch