Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [621]
“the toughest snowstorm…ever I saw him”: Entry for March 23, 1864, in French, Witness to the Young Republic, p. 447.
“as pleasant and funny”…Saturday levee: Benjamin B. French to Pamela Prentiss French, April 10, 1864, transcription, reel 10, French Family Papers, DLC.
he strolled into John Hay’s room…“‘is of me’”: “24 April 1864, Sunday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 188.
“a beleaguered nation…was never bright”: J. G. Randall, The Civil War and Reconstruction (1937; Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1953), pp. 670, 347.
“real suffering…in the social scale”: NYT, July 7, 1864.
Food riots had broken out…vandalized: Randall, The Civil War and Reconstruction, p. 670; Emory M. Thomas, The Confederate Nation, 1861–1865. New American Nation Series (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), pp. 199–206.
Davis’s health gradually…isolated himself: Davis, Jefferson Davis, pp. 539–40, 551–53.
The “tramp” of his feet: Entry for May 8, 1864, in Mary Chesnut, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, ed. C. Vann Woodward (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), p. 601.
Washington was filled…were imminent: Dispatch of May 2, 1864, in Stoddard, Dispatches from Lincoln’s White House, p. 223.
“beginning to feel…generally been failures”: JGN to TB, May 1, 1864, container 3, Nicolay Papers.
Lincoln wrote him a letter…“dignity at once”: “30 April 1864, Saturday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 192.
“entire satisfaction…power to give”: AL to USG, April 30, 1864, in CW, VII, p. 324.
“been astonished…fault is not with you”: USG to AL, May 1, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
the Army…from the James River: Michael Korda, Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero. Eminent Lives Series (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), p. 97.
“This concerted movement…in numbers”: “30 April 1864, Saturday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 193.
great “solicitude…great advantages”: Entry for May 1, 1864, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 668.
the Wilderness: E. M. Law, “From the Wilderness to Cold Harbor,” in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. IV, Pt. I, p. 122; McFeely, Grant, p. 167; Gordon C. Rhea, The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5–6, 1864 (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1994), pp. 27, 51, 142, 163, 178, 193.
climb over the dead…“three and four deep”: NYT, May 15, 1864.
“a nightmare of inhumanity”: McFeely, Grant, p. 165.
86,000 Union and Confederate casualties: Table of casualties, Noah Andre Trudeau, Bloody Roads South: The Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May–June 1864 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1989), p. 341.
“The world has never seen…never will again”: USG to Julia Dent Grant, May 13, 1864, in The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Vol. X: January 1–May 31, 1864, ed. John Y. Simon (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982), p. 444.
“always regretted…was ever made”: Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, p. 462.
as steamers reached the city…“torture and pain”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, pp. 320, 323 (quotes).
Judge Taft was present…others limping along: Entry for May 11, 1864, Taft diary.
As each steamer landed…“and manly”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 323.
Elizabeth Blair fled…“for my nerves”: EBL to SPL, May 30, 1864, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 386.
“The carnage has been unexampled”: Entry for May 15, 1864, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 366.
“it seems to myself…battle of the war”: WHS, diplomatic circular of May 16, 1864, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, p. 219.
“The intense anxiety…for mental activity”: Entry for May 17, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 33.
“more nervous and anxious…and disaster”: JGN to TB, May 15, 1864, container 3, Nicolay Papers.
nights when Lincoln did not sleep: Entry for May 7, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 25.
“met him…his breast”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 30.
made time…an opera: Grover, “Lincoln’s Interest in the Theater,” Century (1909), p. 947; entry for May 18, 1864, in Lincoln Day by Day,