Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [634]
Lincoln wrote to General Grant…“encumbered”: AL to USG, January 19, 1865, in CW, VIII, p. 223.
Grant replied…“Military family”: USG to AL, January 21, 1865, Lincoln Papers.
Stationed at Grant’s…“of the nation”: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 388–89.
“passing time and accumulating years”: Entry for January 1, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 218.
last surviving…buried in Ohio: Entry for January 1, 1865, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 511.
Chase wrote to…New Year’s reception: SPC to AL, January 2, 1865, Lincoln Papers.
“Without your note…bereavement”: AL to SPC, January 2, 1865, in CW, VIII, p. 195.
“a great contrast…in good spirits”: Entry for January 1, 1865, Taft diary.
“Our joy…Confederacy were numbered”: Hugh McCullough, quoted in Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 342.
“anxious…than to acquiesce”: AL to William T. Sherman, December 26, 1864, in CW, VIII, p. 181.
“We have destroyed…for six months”: FB to FPB, December 16, 1864, quoted in Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, p. 180.
also paid tribute…“great light”: AL to William T. Sherman, December 26, 1864, in CW, VIII, p. 182.
telegram announcing…“candle in his hand”: Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, pp. 316–17 (quotes p. 317).
Fort Fisher…“rebels from abroad”: NR, January 17, 1865 (quote); NR, January 18, 1865.
at the cabinet…“President was happy”: Entry for January 17, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 227.
Stephens considered…“or Atlanta”: Alexander H. Stephens, A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States, Vol. II (Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, 1870), p. 619.
nearly every other…munitions and supplies: Ibid., p. 620.
was in Savannah…“delivered to [him]”: EMS to AL, quoted in NR, January 18, 1865.
journeyed to North Carolina…“the real Stanton”: Mrs. Rufus Saxton, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 420.
confer with Sherman…“criminal dislike”: Sherman, Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, pp. 604–07; Henry W. Halleck to William Sherman, December 30, 1865, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XLIV, p. 836 (quote).
Sherman countered…“our substance”: William T. Sherman to SPC, January 11, 1865, in The Salmon P. Chase Papers, Vol. 5: Correspondence, 1865–1873, ed. John Niven (Kent, Ohio, and London, England: Kent State University Press, 1998), pp. 6–7.
“Special Field Orders…tillable ground”: Sherman, Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, p. 609; Special Field Orders, No. 15, Headquarters, Military Division of the Mississippi, January 16, 1865, OR, Ser. I, Vol. XLVII, Part II, pp. 60–62.
Freedmen’s Bureau…the South: Foner, Reconstruction, pp. 68–69.
“A question might…all the evils”: AL, “Response to a Serenade,” February 1, 1865, in CW, VIII, p. 254.
previous spring…party lines: “Thirteenth Amendment,” in Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, p. 308.
annual message…bipartisan unity: AL, “Annual Message to Congress,” December 6, 1864, in CW, VIII, p. 149.
“I have sent for you…border state vote”: AL, quoted by James S. Rollins, “The King’s Cure-All for All Evils,” in Conversations with Lincoln, ed. Segal, pp. 363–64.
assigned two…“procure those votes”: AL, quoted in John B. Alley, in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1886 edn.), pp. 585–86.
powers extended…in New York: “Thirteenth Amendment,” in Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, p. 308.
Elizabeth Blair noted…several members: EBL to SPL, January 31, 1865, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 469.
Ashley learned…“the more resolute”: AL, quoted in JGN memorandum, January 18, 1865, in Nicolay, With Lincoln in the White House, pp. 171, 257 n11.
leader of the…“political associates”: Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, p. 537.
Democrats who considered changing: Harris, Lincoln’s Last Months, p. 128.
“We are like whalers…into eternity”: AL, quoted in John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol. X (New York: Century Co., 1890), p. 74.
Rumors circulated…“have failed”: AL and James M. Ashley correspondence, quoted in James M. Ashley to WHH, November 23, 1866, in HI, pp. 413–14.
“never before…within hearing”: Address of Hon. J.