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"a quarter-million"...deposit in their hometowns: William C. Davis, Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln became Father to an Army and a Nation (New York: Free Press, 1999), pp. 214 (quote), 211.
had wired General Sherman..."no sense, an order": AL to William T. Sherman, September 19, 1864, in CW, VIII, p. 11.
Stanton followed up..."re-election of Mr. Lincoln": Dana, Recollections of the Civil War (1963 edn.), p. 227.
Weed alerted...New Yorkers ready to vote: TW to FWS, October 10, 1864, reel 85, Seward Papers.
Lincoln asked Welles..."to gather votes": Entry for October 11, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 175.
"I would rather be...elected without it": Ida M. Tarbell, A Reporter for Lincoln: Story of Henry E. Wing, Soldier and Newspaperman (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927), p. 70.
"before this morning's...ceaseless strife": NYT, November 8, 1864.
"dark and rainy...entirely alone": Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 195.
the tenth time...beginning of the country: WHS, "Perseverance in War. Auburn, November 7, 1864," in Works of William H. Seward, Vol. V, p. 505.
Fessenden was in New York...with a fever: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 195; Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 385.
"I am just enough...ofTad's quick-wittedness": Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 196.
As the clock struck...a supper of fried oysters: "8 November 1864, Tuesday" in Inside Lincoln's White House, pp. 24346.
Lincoln's victory was a.s.sured...separated by about 400,000 votes: Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, p. 354.
the results were far better...of U.S. senators: Zornow, Lincoln & the Party Divided, p. 198.
It was after 2 a.m.... "tops of their voices": Pratt, Stanton, p. 391.
"the verdict of the people...no dispute": Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 197.
the soldier vote...seven out of every ten soldiers: Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, p. 354.
the Confederacy was obviously...Napoleon would win: Davis, Lincoln's Men, p. 210.
"The men had come...the term implied": Corporal Leander Stillwell, quoted in ibid., p. 226.
CHAPTER 25: "A SACRED EFFORT"
immense crowd...second-floor window: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 200.
"undesirable strife...a possibility": AL, "Response to a Serenade," November 10, 1864, in CW, VIII, p. 101.
"in an exceedingly...frame of mind": Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 200.
"we will all come...United States": WHS, "The a.s.surance of Victory," November 10, 1864, Works of William H. Seward, Vol. V, pp. 51314.
"I advise you...my foreign relations": Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, pp. 20001.
symbolized the animosity...the cabinet: William C. Harris, Lincoln's Last Months (Cambridge, Ma.s.s., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004), p. 83.
Welles even acknowledged..."amicable": Entry for November 26, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 185.
Stanton was sounding...Reconstruction: Entry for November 25, 1864, ibid., p. 179.
a.s.serted that Seward...had outlived: NYT, November 29, 1864.
"His confidence in Seward is great": Entry for September 27, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 160.
"spends more or less...the President": Entry for October 1, 1864, ibid., p. 166.
"of the gravest...and adviser": Entry for July 22, 1864, ibid., p. 84.
plan to foster..."by contribution": H. P. Livingston to AL, November 14, 1864, Lincoln Papers; AL to WHS, November 17, 1864, endors.e.m.e.nt on Livingston to AL, ibid.; WHS to AL, November 17, 1864, endors.e.m.e.nt on Livingston to AL, ibid. (quote).
Seward had long since..."by the President": Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 528.
"Henceforth...of the human race": WHS, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 250.
"looked older...long one, perhaps": Benjamin, "Recollections of Secretary Edwin M. Stanton," Century (1887), pp. 758, 75960.
letter to Chase..."labor and care": EMS to SPC, November 19, 1864, quoted in Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 334.
unwritten code..."felt it necessary": Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 390.
president's a.s.sent..."interfere with him": Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, pp. 36970.
pressed by relatives..."circ.u.mspection": AL to EMS, March 18, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 25455.
Stanton replied..."promptly obeyed": EMS to AL, March 19, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
Lincoln looked..."his friends": Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 172.
clerk recalled..."wail of anguish": William H. Whiton, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, pp. 41819.
group of Pennsylvania..."have to be done": EMS and AL, quoted in Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 387.
"I send this...in this blunder": AL to USG, September 22, 1864, in CW, VIII, p. 17.
"his firmness...into arrogance": Alonzo Rothschild, Lincoln, Master of Men: A Study in Character (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906), p. 231.
"hard to vote...is a ruffian": Entry for September 17, 1864, in Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 489.
"Go home...be found guilty": Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 246.
"Folks come up...don't know 'em!": AL, quoted in Rothschild, Lincoln, Master of Men, p. 285.
