Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [623]
“Harmony was…their kerchiefs”: NR, June 9, 1864.
his towering presence…allotted to a single state: Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, pp. 199–200; Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 326.
Weed had initially supported…the victorious Johnson: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 429.
“Stanton’s theory…the United States”: Albert E. H. Johnson, quoted in New York Evening Post, July 13, 1891.
a clerk handed him a dispatch…“a President?”: AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 163.
“the cart before the horse”: NR, June 9, 1864.
The embarrassed operator…“on my return”: AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 163.
a committee appointed…of his nomination: Ibid., p. 166; entry for June 9, 1864, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 263.
did not assume…“‘when crossing streams’”: AL, “Reply to Delegation from the National Union League,” June 9, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 383–84 (quote p. 384).
the Ohio delegation…“under his command”: AL, “Response to a Serenade by the Ohio Delegation,” June 9, 1864, in ibid., p. 384.
“nothing could defeat…like to die of”: NYT, June 13, 1864.
CHAPTER 24: “ATLANTA IS OURS”
“Our troops have…but little”: Entry for June 20, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, pp. 54–55.
“The immense slaughter…sickens us all”: Entry for June 2, 1864, ibid., p. 44.
“steady courage”: Dispatch of June 6, 1864, in Stoddard, Dispatches from Lincoln’s White House, p. 234.
nearly lost his life at Cold Harbor: Janet W. Seward, “Personal Experiences of the Civil War,” Seward Papers, NRU.
“I cannot yet…a holy cause”: FAS to William H. Seward, Jr., May 20, 1864, reel 115, Seward Papers.
a “righteous” conflict…Mexican War: FAS to Augustus Seward, May 15, 1864, reel 115, Seward Papers.
“so nervous…all night with terror”: EBL to SPL, June 19, [1864], in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 394.
“grave & anxious”: EBL to SPL, June 21, 1864, in ibid., p. 395.
if Frank were taken…“are politically”: EBL to SPL, June 22, 1864, in note 2 of EBL to SPL, June 21, 1864, in ibid., p. 396.
Welles was pained…“unfit for any labor”: Entry for July 20, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 82.
the Great Central Fair in Philadelphia: William Thompson, “Sanitary Fairs of the Civil War,” Civil War History 4 (March 1958), p. 60; NR, June 16, 1864.
“miracles as many…world of magic”: Unknown observer, quoted in Thompson, “Sanitary Fairs of the Civil War,” CWH 4 (1958), p. 60.
Lincoln, Mary, and Tad left: Entry for June 16, 1864, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 265.
they were escorted…“in Philadelphia”: NR, June 16 and 17, 1864 (quote June 17).
“War, at the best…until that time”: AL, “Speech at Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,” June 16, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 394, 395.
his own “intense anxiety…his post here”: Entry for June 20, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 55.
Accompanied by Tad…of June 20: Entry for June 20, 1864, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 266.
“came down from…all who met him”: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 217, 218.
“plain and substantial…hero of Vicksburg”: NYH, June 25, 1864.
Lincoln conversed…“three capital jokes”: Sylvanus Cadwallader, Three Years with Grant: As Recalled by War Correspondent Sylvanus Cadwallader, ed. Benjamin P. Thomas (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956), p. 232.
Grant suggested a ride…“met him on all sides”: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, p. 218 (quote); NR, June 24, 1864.
“a long and lingering look”: NYH, June 25, 1864.
passed a brigade…“spontaneous outburst”: Cadwallader, Three Years with Grant, p. 233.
“and his voice…if he had inherited it”: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 222–23.
General Grant took Lincoln aside…“but I will go in”: USG, quoted in entry for June 26, 1864, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 673.
“sunburnt and…position and good spirits”: “23 June 1864, Thursday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 210.
regular Friday cabinet meeting…“the General and army”: Entry for June 24, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 58.
project his own renewed hope…“as a commander”: NYTrib,