Team Of Rivals Part 147

Mary Lincoln sent..."to believe it": MTL to Daniel E. Sickles, February 6, 1864, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 16768; see also note 3 of MTL to Sickles.

when Emilie...Martha Todd White: See note 1 to JGN to Benjamin F. Butler, April 19, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

Lincoln issued a pa.s.s: On the subject of Martha Todd White's dealings with the Lincolns, see JGN to Butler, April 19, 1864; Butler to JGN, April 21, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

"Here...of your master": Undated newspaper article pasted in JGN to Butler, April 19, 1863, container 28, Butler Papers; newspaper reports of Martha Todd White's statements to General Butler, quoted in Butler to JGN, April 21, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

he directed Nicolay to ascertain the facts: JGN to Butler, April 19, 1863, container 28, Butler Papers.

Butler replied...untoward had been found: Butler to JGN, April 21, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

Nicolay used Butler's letter: JGN to Butler, April 28, 1864; JGN to Horace Greeley, April 25, 1864; Greeley to JGN, April 26, 1864, Lincoln Papers. For an example of reb.u.t.tal issued, see NYTrib, April 27, 1864.

Butler was surprised...so "silly": Butler to JGN, April 21, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

Nor did he want...sustain the rebel cause: O. Stewart to AL, April 27, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

Browning requested a favor..."very good humor": Entry for February 6, 1894, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 659.

he had visited...Owen Lovejoy: Entry for February 6, 1864, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 238.

"the best friend [he] had in Congress": AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 18.

suffering from a debilitating liver and kidney ailment: NYT, March 28, 1864; Edward Magdol, Owen Lovejoy: Abolitionist in Congress (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1967), pp. 400, 40203.

"This war is eating...live to see the end": AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 17.

a fire alarm rang...his brother, Willie: Robert W. McBride, Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1926), pp. 2930, 4446 (quotes pp. 4445); Star, February 11, 1864; Daily Morning Chronicle, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., February 11, 1864.

A coachman...setting the fire: Star, February 11, 1864; JGN to JH, February 10, 1864, in Nicolay, With Lincoln in the White House, p. 126.

instructed him to consult..."have it rebuilt": Commissioner B. B. French to John H. Rice, February 11, 1863, pp. 29596, Vol. 14, reel 7, M371, RG 42, DNA (quote); Star, February 11, 1864.

"carefully veiled...a hopeless one": McClure, Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-Times, p. 136.

Friends of Chase...biographical sketch: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 358.

"no matter how...flimsy political trick": William Orton to SPC, January 6, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. IV, p. 247.

"malignant denunciations": SPC to AL, January 13, 1864, reel 30, Chase Papers.

twenty-five long letters...inspirational book: Chase's series of autobiographical letters to John T. Trowbridge began on December 27, 1863, and ended on March 22, 1864, see Chase Papers; [John T. Trowbridge], The Ferry-Boy and the Financier, by a Contributor to the "Atlantic" (Boston: Walker, Wise, & Co., 1864).

An excerpt appeared: J. T. Trowbridge, "The First Visit to Was.h.i.+ngton," Atlantic Monthly 13 (April 1864), pp. 44857.

"So far...otherwise than I have": SPC to J. W. Hartwell, February 2, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.

"I think of you...you are-where?": SPC to Charlotte S. Eastman, February 1, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.

Susan Walker..."bluestocking": Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 97 (quote), 20304.

"I wish you could come...you enough": SPC to Susan Walker, January 23, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.

the public announcement...held a large interest: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 357, 35960; Blue, Salmon P. Chase, p. 222.

"eating a man's bread...the same time": David Davis, quoted in King, Lincoln's Manager, p. 213.

Chase busied himself lining up support: Hart, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 30910.

"gratified...should he be reelected": SPC to Flamen Ball, February 2, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.

"lamented the...distinct feeler": Entry for February 3, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 52021.

"immeasurably"...to any other candidate: Entry for March 22, 1864, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 350.

"fair plump lady...altogether the advantage": Entry for February 19, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 528.

the Pomeroy Committee..."available candidate": "The Pomeroy Circular," quoted in Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, pp. 499500.

Pomeroy circular was leaked to the press: J. M. Winch.e.l.l, quoted in NYT, September 15, 1874.

"No sensible man...if it killed me": David Davis, quoted in King, Lincoln's Manager, p. 215.

"had no knowledge...entire confidence": SPC to AL, February 22, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

the circular's author..."would sustain": J. M. Winch.e.l.l, quoted in NYT, September 15, 1874.

He understood the political..."enemies": Entry for February 13, 1864, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 333.

acknowledged receipt..."time to do so": AL to SPC, February 23, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.

"Its recoil...than Lincoln": Entry for February 22, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 529.

"It is unworthy...of this movement": NYT, February 24, 1864.

the effect of the circular...Chase's prospects: JGN to TB, February 28, 1864, container 3, Nicolay Papers.

In state after state...Lincoln's renomination: NYT, February 24, 1864; Fitz Henry Warren to TW, March 25, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

Pomeroy's home state...support for Lincoln: W. W. H. Lawrence to Abel C. Wilder and James H. Lane, February 15, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

the "long list...degree with Abraham Lincoln": NYT, February 29, 1864.

Harper's Weekly..."had been blinded": Harper's Weekly, March 5, 1864, p. 146.

"The ma.s.ses...earnest and honest": Entry for January 3, 1864, in Gurowski, Diary: 1863'64'65, p. 60.

The fatal blow: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 361.