Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [639]
privately wished…“goodness, than any other”: Sherman, Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, pp. 682–83.
walked to the railroad…“bless you all!”: AL, quoted in Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 425–26.
“I think…the wisest course”: Entry for March 30, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 269.
“We presume…palpable to be doubted”: NYTrib, March 30, 1865.
“change of air & rest”: MTL to CS, March 23, 1865, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 209.
“to escape the…pressure of visitors”: Philadelphia Inquirer, March 24, 1865.
underscore his directive…“own hands”: EMS to USG, March 3, 1865, CW, VIII, pp. 330–31.
“I begin to feel…little had been done”: AL to EMS, March 30, 1865, ibid., p. 377.
“I hope you will…All well here”: EMS to AL, March 31, 1865, ibid., p. 378 n1.
accompanied Mary…was well: Entry for April 1, 1865, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 324; Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 374.
“overwhelmingly charming…astounding person”: Carl Schurz to his wife, April 2, 1865, in Schurz, Intimate Letters of Carl Schurz, 1841–1869, pp. 326–27.
“the flash of the cannon…in his that night”: Through Five Administrations: Reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook, Body-Guard to President Lincoln, ed. Margarita Spalding Gerry (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1910), p. 47.
broken through Petersburg’s…and Richmond: Foote, The Civil War, Vol. III, pp. 876–80.
Lincoln received…“12,000 prisoners”: AL to MTL, April 2, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 384.
Lincoln had moved…“a foot sideways”: AL, quoted in Porter, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War, pp. 284–85.
“a comfortable…yard in front”: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, p. 449.
battlefields, littered…“lines of sadness”: Through Five Administrations, ed. Gerry, p. 48.
“dismounted in the street”…strolled by: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 450, 451.
Grant surmised…“and cut him off”: Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, p. 559.
back at City Point…“nightmare is gone”: AL, quoted in Porter, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War, p. 294.
in his customary pew…“retreating that evening”: Davis, Jefferson Davis, p. 603; Jefferson Davis to Varina Davis, quoted in Robert McElroy, Jefferson Davis: The Unreal and the Real (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1937; New York: Smithmark, 1995), p. 454 (quote).
“Thereupon…all eyes in the house”: NYTrib, April 8, 1865.
Summoning his cabinet…west to Danville: Davis, Jefferson Davis, p. 604.
small fire…“three-quarters of a mile”: Charles A. Dana to EMS, April 6, 1865, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XLVI, Part III, p. 594.
All the public buildings…were destroyed: NYTrib, April 8, 1865.
leaving only…the Spotswood Hotel: Charles A. Dana to EMS, April 6, 1865, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XLVI, Part III, p. 594.
“Here is…Richmond has fallen”: Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, pp. 360–61.
“spread by a thousand mouths”: Star, April 3, 1865.
“almost by magic…fullness of their joy”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 219.
“wept as children…vows of friendship”: NYH, April 4, 1865.
crowd called for Stanton…“his emotion”: Star, February 15, 1896.
“gratitude to Almighty…with their blood”: EMS, quoted in Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 220.
“so overcome by emotion…speak continuously”: Ibid.
Seward…“Secretary of War as this”: WHS, quoted in ibid., p. 221.
crowd erupted…“loud and lusty” cheers: NR, April 3, 1865.
“beaming” Stanton…“The Star Spangled Banner”: NYTrib, April 4, 1865.
“The demand seemed…press to supply”: Star, April 3, 1865.
One hundred Herald… section of the city: NYH, April 4, 1865.
EXTRA!…first to enter the city: NR, April 3, 1865.
eight hundred guns, fired at Stanton’s order: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 431.
dinner at Stanton’s house: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 353.
“if there were to be…of the danger”: James Speed to Joseph H. Barrett, 1885 September 16, Lincoln Collection, Lincoln Miscellaneous Manuscripts, Box 9, Folder 66, Special Collections, Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
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