Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [643]
“charming time…into a lad of sixteen”: MTL to Abram Wakeman, April 13, [1865], in ibid., p. 220.
told Sumner…a visit with General Grant: MTL to CS, [April] 13, [1865], in ibid., p. 219.
“Well, my son…for a long while”: Keckley, Behind the Scenes, pp. 137–38.
Grant arrived…this event would be favorable: Entry for April 14, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, pp. 282–83.
Stanton had drafted…“asked me to read it”: EMS, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 301.
cabinet concurred…two separate states: Entry for April 14, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 281; Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. X (1890 edn.), p. 284.
“he thought it providential…harmony and union”: Gideon Welles, “Lincoln and Johnson,” Galaxy 13 (April 1872), p. 526.
“Didn’t our Chief…hair and whiskers”: Speed to Barrett, September 16, 1885, Lincoln Collection, University of Chicago Library.
Lincoln seemed “more cheerful…at home and abroad”: EMS to Charles Francis Adams, April 15, 1865, Telegrams Sent by the Secretary of War, Vol. 185–186, December 27, 1864–April 20, 1865, Telegrams Collected by the Office of the Secretary of War (Bound) (National Archives Microfilm Publication M-473, reel88), Records of the Office of the Secretary of War, RG 107, DNA.
“spoke very kindly…of the Confederacy”: EMS to John A. Dix, April 15, 1865, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XLVI, Part III, p. 780.
“in marked degree…distinguished him”: EMS to Charles Francis Adams, April 15, 1865 (M-473, reel 88), RG 107, DNA.
“a conspicuous…best to let him run”: Dana, Recollection of the Civil War (1996 edn.), pp. 273–74.
She had never seen…“‘been very miserable’”: MTL to Francis B. Carpenter, November 15, [1865], in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 284–85.
“he spoke of his old…riding the circuit”: Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 429–30.
hoped to travel…back home to Illinois: MTL interview, [September 1866], in HI, p. 359; Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 382.
group of old friends…“to dinner at once”: Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II (1900 edn.), p. 235.
met with Noah Brooks…“its pleasures”: AL, quoted in Hollister, Life of Schuyler Colfax, p. 252.
invited Colfax to join…that night: Ibid., p. 253.
“more hopeful…nearly so with gold”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 443.
Republican had announced…box that night: NR, April 14, 1865.
Julia Grant…asked to be excused: Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, p. 592; Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant, p. 155.
The Stantons also declined: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 395.
“unwilling to encourage…poker over his arm”: Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, p. 367.
“I suppose it’s time…would rather stay”: AL, quoted in Hollister, Life of Schuyler Colfax, p. 253.
“It has been advertised…disappoint the people”: AL, quoted in Through Five Administrations, p. 67.
Booth had devised a plan…assassinate the president: Kauffman, American Brutus, pp. 212–15.
Booth believed he would be…“greater tyrant”: Text of John Wilkes Booth diary, available through Abraham Lincoln research website, http://members/aol.com/RVSNorton1/Lincoln52.html (accessed May 2005).
“Booth knew…martyr of Caesar”: Kauffman, American Brutus, p. 212.
slept well the previous…“for the first time”: Entry for April 14, 1865, in Johnson, “Sensitivity and Civil War,” p. 876.
“listened with a look…the Cabinet meeting”: Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, p. 258.
Fanny’s reading…how much he enjoyed it: Entry for April 14, 1865, in Johnson, “Sensitivity and Civil War,” p. 876.
Stanton had stopped by…serenading him: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 396.
“quiet arrangements”…opposite side of the bed: Entry for April 14, 1865, in Johnson, “Sensitivity and Civil War,” p. 877.
“there seemed nothing unusual…presented himself”: Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, p. 258.
Powell told the servant…but Fred refused: Verdi, “The Assassination of the Sewards,” The Republic (1873), p. 293.
“stood apparently irresolute…pulled the trigger”: Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, p. 259.
last memory Fred