Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [631]
Lincoln asked Welles…“to gather votes”: Entry for October 11, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 175.
“I would rather be…elected without it”: Ida M. Tarbell, A Reporter for Lincoln: Story of Henry E. Wing, Soldier and Newspaperman (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927), p. 70.
“before this morning’s…ceaseless strife”: NYT, November 8, 1864.
“dark and rainy…entirely alone”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 195.
the tenth time…beginning of the country: WHS, “Perseverance in War. Auburn, November 7, 1864,” in Works of William H. Seward, Vol. V, p. 505.
Fessenden was in New York…with a fever: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 195; Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 385.
“I am just enough…ofTad’s quick-wittedness”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 196.
As the clock struck…a supper of fried oysters: “8 November 1864, Tuesday” in Inside Lincoln’s White House, pp. 243–46.
Lincoln’s victory was assured…separated by about 400,000 votes: Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, p. 354.
the results were far better…of U.S. senators: Zornow, Lincoln & the Party Divided, p. 198.
It was after 2 a.m…. “tops of their voices”: Pratt, Stanton, p. 391.
“the verdict of the people…no dispute”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 197.
the soldier vote…seven out of every ten soldiers: Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, p. 354.
the Confederacy was obviously…Napoleon would win: Davis, Lincoln’s Men, p. 210.
“The men had come…the term implied”: Corporal Leander Stillwell, quoted in ibid., p. 226.
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immense crowd…second-floor window: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 200.
“undesirable strife…a possibility”: AL, “Response to a Serenade,” November 10, 1864, in CW, VIII, p. 101.
“in an exceedingly…frame of mind”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 200.
“we will all come…United States”: WHS, “The Assurance of Victory,” November 10, 1864, Works of William H. Seward, Vol. V, pp. 513–14.
“I advise you…my foreign relations”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, pp. 200–01.
symbolized the animosity…the cabinet: William C. Harris, Lincoln’s Last Months (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004), p. 83.
Welles even acknowledged…“amicable”: Entry for November 26, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 185.
Stanton was sounding…Reconstruction: Entry for November 25, 1864, ibid., p. 179.
asserted that Seward…had outlived: NYT, November 29, 1864.
“His confidence in Seward is great”: Entry for September 27, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 160.
“spends more or less…the President”: Entry for October 1, 1864, ibid., p. 166.
“of the gravest…and adviser”: Entry for July 22, 1864, ibid., p. 84.
plan to foster…“by contribution”: H. P. Livingston to AL, November 14, 1864, Lincoln Papers; AL to WHS, November 17, 1864, endorsement on Livingston to AL, ibid.; WHS to AL, November 17, 1864, endorsement on Livingston to AL, ibid. (quote).
Seward had long since…“by the President”: Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 528.
“Henceforth…of the human race”: WHS, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, p. 250.
“looked older…long one, perhaps”: Benjamin, “Recollections of Secretary Edwin M. Stanton,” Century (1887), pp. 758, 759–60.
letter to Chase…“labor and care”: EMS to SPC, November 19, 1864, quoted in Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 334.
unwritten code…“felt it necessary”: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 390.
president’s assent…“interfere with him”: Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, pp. 369–70.
pressed by relatives…“circumspection”: AL to EMS, March 18, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 254–55.
Stanton replied…“promptly obeyed”: EMS to AL, March 19, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
Lincoln looked…“his friends”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 172.
clerk recalled…“wail of anguish”: William H. Whiton, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, pp. 418–19.
group of Pennsylvania…“have to be done”: EMS and AL, quoted in Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 387.
“I send this…in this blunder”: AL to USG, September 22, 1864, in