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position paid…start married life: JGN to TB, March 12, 1865, quoted in ibid., p. 225.
Hay had recognized…“personal preeminence”: “Hay’s Reminiscences of the Civil War,” in Hay, At Lincoln’s Side, p. 129.
arranged for Hay…for another month: JH to Charles Hay, March 31, 1865, in Hay, At Lincoln’s Side, p. 103.
“It will be…at the same time”: JGN to TB, quoted in Nicolay, Lincoln’s Secretary, p. 227.
“We are having…laid aside”: MTL to Abram Wakeman, March 20, [1865], in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 205–06.
note to Sumner…“familiar to me”: MTL to CS, March 23, 1865, in ibid., p. 209.
“an emotional temperament…heart would break”: Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 32.
an incident…“giving me up the key”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 91–92.
“so full of life…little sprite”: NYTrib, July 17, 1871.
Grant had issued…“to be asked”: The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant), ed. John Y. Simon (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975), p. 141.
“Can you not…would do you good”: USG to AL, March 20, 1865, Lincoln Papers.
Fox was not happy…“making the journey”: John S. Barnes, “With Lincoln from Washington to Richmond in 1865,” Part 1, Appleton’s 9 (June 1907), p. 519.
ordered John Barnes…“very funny terms”: Ibid., pp. 517–20.
presidential party…Wharf at Sixth Street: Entry for March 23, 1865, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 322.
Stanton had been laid up…minutes after: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 350.
“a hurricane swept over the city”: Star, February 15, 1896.
“terrific squalls…and its driver”: NYH, March 24, 1865.
“while down the river…great violence”: Star, February 15, 1896.
Stanton went…“at Point Lookout”: EMS to AL, March 23, 1865, Lincoln Papers.
Tad raced around…“delicious fish”: William H. Crook, “Lincoln as I Knew Him,” Harper’s Monthly 115 (May/June 1907), p. 46.
“Feeling so… loved so well”: MTL to Francis B. Carpenter, November 15, [1865], in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 284.
“it was after…headquarters at the top”: Crook, “Lincoln as I Knew Him,” Harper’s Monthly (1907), p. 46.
Robert Lincoln…“was awaiting”: Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant, p. 142.
men went into…talked late into the night: Crook, “Lincoln as I Knew Him,” Harper’s Monthly (1907), pp. 46, 47.
While the Lincolns…original line: Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol. III: Red River to Appomattox (New York: Random House, 1958; New York: Vintage Books, 1986), pp. 838, 840–45.
walked up the bluff…“ruin of homes”: Barnes, “With Lincoln from Washington to Richmond in 1865,” Part 1, Appleton’s (1907), pp. 521–22.
“I am here…states—1600”: AL to EMS, March 25, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 374.
Stanton replied…“‘further off’”: EMS to AL, March 25, 1865, Lincoln Papers.
Lincoln’s presence…“of their triumphs”: NYH, March 28, 1865.
Lincoln seemed…“anecdotes”: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, p. 407.
“Mr. President…old grudge against England to stand”: USG and AL, quoted in Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 408–9.
Porter’s naval flotilla…“Come along!”: Barnes, “With Lincoln from Washington to Richmond in 1865,” Part 1, Appleton’s (1907), pp. 522–23.
ambulance carrying…“ark of refuge”: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 413–14 (quotes p. 414).
saw the attractive…“shocked and horrified”: Adam Badeau, quoted in Foote, The Civil War, Vol. III, p. 847.
“was always that…impressed by it”: John S. Barnes, “With Lincoln from Washington to Richmond in 1865,” Part II, Appleton’s (1907), p. 743.
had no desire…irrational outburst: Randall, Mary Lincoln, pp. 372–74.
Sherman was on his way…final push: William T. Sherman to Isaac N. Arnold, November 28, 1872, in Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 421.
“their hands locked”…River Queen: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 417–18, 419.
greeted Sherman…depend upon the actions: William T. Sherman to Isaac N. Arnold, November 28, 1872, in Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 421–22.
long talk with Lincoln…“their shops”: Sherman, Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, p. 682.
“Let them have…to the laws”: AL, quoted in David D. Porter,