Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [642]
planning a speech…“dribble it all out”: AL, “Response to Serenade,” National Intelligencer version, April 10, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 393.
If he said something…“not to make mistakes”: AL, “Response to Serenade,” NR version, April 10, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 394.
finally appeared…“waving their handkerchiefs”: NR, April 11, 1865.
“I am very greatly…with its performance”: AL, “Response to Serenade,” National Intelligencer version, April 10, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 393.
“it is good to show the rebels…hear it again”: Chambrun, “Personal Recollections of Mr. Lincoln,” Scribner’s (1893), p. 34.
band followed “Dixie”…“in high good-humor”: Through Five Administrations, ed. Gerry, p. 62 (quote); National Intelligencer, April 11, 1865, in CW, VIII, pp. 393–94 n1.
“If possible…than last Monday”: MTL to CS, April 10, 1865, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 216.
exhilaration was evident…“qu’en pensez vous?”: MTL to CS, April 11, 1865, in ibid., p. 217.
Illuminated once again…miles around: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 225.
“Bonfires blazed…rockets were fired”: NYTrib, April 12, 1865.
decorating the front…“and evergreens”: Star, February 15, 1896.
a second-story window…“of a different character”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, pp. 226–27.
“the greatest question…practical statesmanship”: “31 July 1863, Friday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 69.
acknowledged that in Louisiana…“by smashing it?”: AL, “Last Public Address,” April 11, 1865, CW, VIII, pp. 403–04.
John Wilkes Booth…passion for the rebels’ cause: Lockridge, Darling of Misfortune, p. 111.
evolved a plan to kidnap…not ready to yield: Michael W. Kauffman, American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies (New York: Random House, 2004), pp. 134, 211–12.
“Our cause being almost…great must be done”: Text of John Wilkes Booth diary, available through Abraham Lincoln research website, http://members/aol.com/RVSNorton1/Lincoln52.html (accessed May 2005).
Two other conspirators…“put him through”: John Wilkes Booth, quoted in Donald, Lincoln, p. 588.
Curiously…“God knows what is best”: Lamon, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 116–18.
Fehrenbacher is persuasive…confused: Commentary on Lamon recollection, Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Fehrenbacher and Fehrenbacher, p. 293.
While radicals…control of the seceded states: Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. IV, p. 236; SPC to AL, April 12, 1865, Lincoln Papers.
“a large majority of the people”: NYH, quoted in Harris, Lincoln’s Last Months, p. 216.
“Reunion…in the minds of men”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 228.
“there must be…robber bands and guerillas”: Entry for April 13, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 279.
Lincoln had hoped…“their own work”: Ibid.
“that to place…bring trouble with Congress”: A. E. H. Johnson, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 272.
Stanton insisted…“absolutely null and void”: EMS, quoted in ibid., p. 271.
Speed expressed his accord…with Lincoln: Williams, “James and Joshua Speed,” p. 148.
confessed to Welles…tremendously: Gideon Welles, “Lincoln and Johnson,” Galaxy 13 (April 1872), p. 524.
“doubted the policy…correct it if he had”: Entry for April 13, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, pp. 279–80.
telegram from Campbell…originally discussed: John A. Campbell to Godfrey Weitzel, April 7, 1865, CW, VIII, pp. 407–08 n1.
Lincoln walked over…“any specific acts”: A. E. H. Johnson, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 272.
Lincoln stood up…“safe-return to their homes”: AL to Godfrey Weitzel, April 12, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 407 (quote); EMS, in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 271.
“that… was exactly right”: Ibid.
“As we reached…‘candles from my department’”: Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant, pp. 153, 154.
received a delightful note…“drive with me!”: MTL to Mary Jane Welles, July 11, 1865, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 257.
“We are rejoicing…glorious victories”: MTL to James Gordon Bennett, [April 13, 1865], in ibid., p. 219.