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Lincoln himself...considered humiliating: Hendrick, Lincoln's War Cabinet, p. 205.
"the British side...cheerfully": WHS to Lord Lyons, December 26, 1861, in The Works of William H. Seward, Vol. V, ed. George E. Baker (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884; New York: AMS Press, 1972), pp. 295309 (quotes pp. 30709).
"There was great...power of England": Entry for December 25, 1861, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 216.
"gall and wormwood...I possess": Entry for December 25, 1861, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 320.
Only Monty Blair...with Seward: Hendrick, Lincoln's War Cabinet, p. 206.
Charles Sumner..."the North's problems": Monaghan, Diplomat in Carpet Slippers, p. 191.
"Governor Seward...on each side": Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 25.
Seward finished...read it to Chase: Monaghan, Diplomat in Carpet Slippers, p. 191; entry for December 26, 1861, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.
"I am consoled...simply doing right": Entry for December 25, 1861, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 320.
"a great point...Government": Carpenter, "A Day with Governor Seward," Seward Papers.
"an argument...the right one": Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 26.
Seward hosted a dinner party: Entry for December 27, 1861, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 519; entry for December 27, 1861, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.
"a great homely...iron grey": Entry for December 27, 1861, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.
The conversation at dinner..."on the floor cloth": Ibid.
"swore vehemently": Entry for December 27, 1861, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 519.
"doom [Seward] to unpopularity": Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 26.
"The general...domestic treason": Entry for December 29, 1861, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 198.
"Presidents and Kings...unselfish heart": Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 26.
"Houses are being...life in the Capital": "Miriam," Iowa State Register, Des Moines, November 13, 1861.
a mansion transformed: Randall, Mary Lincoln, pp. 25863, 266; Monkman, The White House, pp. 12333.
the new rugs..."roses at your feet": Mary Clemmer Ames, Ten Years in Was.h.i.+ngton. Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman Sees Them (Hartford, Conn.: A. D. Worthington & Co., 1871), p. 171.
"The President's...comparative beauty": Daily Alta California, May 12, 1862, quoted in Monkman, The White House, p. 132.
"elegant fitting up...in the least arrogant": George Bancroft to his wife, December 12 and 14, 1862, in M. A. DeWolfe Howe, The Life and Letters of George Bancroft, Vol. II (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908), pp. 14445.
she had overspent...extra money over to her: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 187, 191.
She had replaced...the manure account: Entry for November 3, 1861, in William Howard Russell's Civil War: Private Diary and Letters, 18611862, ed. Martin Crawford (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, 1992), p. 162.
She exchanged her patronage...wealthy donors: For a general discussion of MTL's financial finagling, see Michael Burlingame, "Mary Todd Lincoln's Unethical Conduct as First Lady," appendix 2 in At Lincoln's Side: John Hay's Civil War Correspondence and Selected Writings, ed. Michael Burlingame (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000).
she asked John Hay..."the Steward's salary": JH to JGN, April 4 and 5, 1862, in ibid., pp. 1920.
She had no recourse...to speak with her husband: Entry for December 16, 1861, in Benjamin Brown French, Witness to the Young Republic: A Yankee's Journal, 18281870, ed. Donald B. Cole and John J. McDonough (Hanover, N.H., and London: University Press of New England, 1989), p. 382.
after he returned home...Edward Baker: NR, December 14, 1861.
"inexorable...his own pocket!": Entry for December 16, 1861, in French, Witness to the Young Republic, p. 382.
"better and better...will defend her": Entry for December 22, 1861, in ibid., p. 383.
hide a deficiency appropriation: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 190.
"I need hardly...his own expences": SPC to KCS, October 25, 1861, reel 17, Chase Papers.
a questionable relations.h.i.+p...investment account for Chase: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, pp. 3637.
"I will take...working as you do": Jay Cooke to SPC, quoted in ibid., p. 37.
growth in size of the Union army: Simon Cameron to AL, December 1, 1861, OR, Ser. 3, Vol. I pp. 669, 700.
"incapable...general plans": "A Private Paper. Conversation with the President, October 2d, 1861," memorandum, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
"he would look...in the other": Albert Gallatin Riddle, Recollection of War Times: Reminiscences of Men and Events in Was.h.i.+ngton, 18601865 (New York and London: G. P. Putman's Sons, 1895), p. 180.
accusations of corruption...in the War Department: NYT, July 3 and 9, and August 28, 1861.
Congress appointed...Cameron was not charged: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 293; Macartney, Lincoln and His Cabinet, pp. 3536; Hendrick, Lincoln's War Cabinet, pp. 22223.
"It is better...with dissolution": NYT, July 7, 1861.
Cameron sought...Republicans: Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 59.
"We agreed...in that opinion": SPC to Trowbridge, March 31, 1844, quoted in Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, p. 420.
"extremist measures...absolute ruin": National Intelligencer, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., November 14, 1861.
heated arguments with Bates, Blair, and Smith: Entry for November 20, 1862, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 203; Niven, Gideon Welles, p. 392.
Cameron maintained..."n.i.g.g.e.r hobby": MB, paraphrased in entry of September 12, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 127 (quote); Bradley, Simon Cameron, p. 203.
Each department customarily presented: Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. V, p. 125.
Cameron read his draft: Henry Wilson, "Edwin M. Stanton," Atlantic Monthly 25 (February 1870), p. 238; Bradley, Simon Cameron, p. 203.
"I sought out...Edwin Stanton": Simon Cameron, quoted in Henry Wilson, "Jeremiah S. Black and Edwin M. Stanton," Atlantic Monthly 26 (October 1870), p. 470.
"read the report...hearty support": Ibid.
