Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [646]
“a new birth of freedom…perish from the earth”: AL, “Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg,” final text, November 19, 1863, in CW, VII, p. 23.
second day belonged…“with our swords”: Sherman, Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, p. 731.
All of Washington…“All felt this”: Entry for April 19, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 310.
“a Cabinet which should…than one counsellor”: WHS, “The President and His Cabinet,” October 20, 1865, Works of William H. Seward, Vol. V, p. 527.
“I have no doubt…greatest man I ever knew”: Tribute by General Grant, in Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 7.
“I have more than once…Nineteenth Century”: Walt Whitman, “November Boughs,” The Complete Prose Works of Walt Whitman, Vol. III (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Knickerbocker Press, 1902), pp. 206–07.
Leo Tolstoy…“light beams directly on us”: Leo Tolstoy, quoted in The World, New York, February 7, 1908.
“Every man is said…yet to be developed”: AL, “Communication to the People of Sangamo County,” March 9, 1832, in CW, I, p. 8.
“he had done nothing…that he had lived”: AL, paraphrased in Joshua F. Speed to WHH, February 7, 1866, in HI, p. 197.
“conceived in Liberty…all men are created equal”: AL, “Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863; Edward Everett Copy,” in CW, VII, p. 21.
“With malice toward none; with charity for all”: AL, “Second Inaugural Address,” March 4, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 333.
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“night of horrors”: Entries for April 14, 1865, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 529.
“vicarious suffering”: FAS, in “Miscellaneous Fragments in Mrs. Seward’s Handwriting,” reel 197, Seward Papers.
“the largest…woman in America”: New York Independent, undated, in Seward family scrapbook, Seward House Foundation Historical Association, Inc., Library, Auburn, N.Y.
Fanny remained…tuberculosis: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 266.
Seward was inconsolable: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 417.
“Truly it may…mother and daughter”: Washington Republican, undated, in Seward family scrapbook, Seward House.
attempts to mediate…radicals in Congress: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 452.
“Seward’s Folly”: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 278.
spent his last years traveling: Ibid., pp. 290–91, 292–94; NYT, October 11, 1872.
Jenny asked…“Love one another”: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 296; Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, p. 508 (quote).
Thurlow Weed…wept openly: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 296.
Stanton’s remaining…asked for his resignation: Pratt, Stanton, p. 452; Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 583.
Refusing to honor…removal order: George C. Gorham, Life and Public Services of Edwin M. Stanton, Vol. II (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, Riverside Press, 1899), p. 444.
“barricaded himself”: Pratt, Stanton, p. 452.
taking his meals in the department: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 595.
Tenure of Office Act: “Tenure of Office Act,” in The Reader’s Companion to American History, ed. Foner and Garraty, pp. 1,063–64.
impeachment failed…submitted his resignation: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 608.
Grant nominated him…“only office”: Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 178.
short-lived…severe asthma attack: Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. IX, ed. Dumas Malone (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935; 1964), p. 520; Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, pp. 637–38; Christopher Bates, “Stanton, Edwin McMasters,” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 1852.
“I know that it is…he was then”: Robert Todd Lincoln to Edwin L. Stanton, quoted in Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 638.
close-knit family…Confederate Army: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, p. 330.
“it was in his social…death cannot sever”: Address by Colonel J. C. Broadhead, in “Addresses by the Members of the St. Louis Bar on the Death of Edward Bates,” Bates Papers, MoSHi.
impeachment trial…resting with the Democrats: Blue, Salmon P. Chase, p. 285.
Kate serving…derailed his ambitions: Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. II, ed. Allen Johnson and Dumas