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"it was always plain...judicious and appropriate": Charles A. Dana, quoted in Hay, "Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln," Century (1890), p. 36.
CHAPTER 26: THE FINAL WEEKS
"he was in mind...all-sufficing strength": Hay, "Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln," Century (1890), p. 37.
"a tired spot": Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 161.
avoid the thousands..."Egyptian locusts": JGN to TB, March 5, 1865, in Nicolay, With Lincoln in the White House, p. 175.
"The bare thought...crush me": AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 276.
"they don't want...must see them": AL, quoted in Hay, "Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln," Century (1890), p. 33.
"I think now...nineteen enemies": AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 276.
hope that consul...wished to help: AL to WHS, March 6, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 337.
"at all times...of public trusts": AL to Winfield Scott and others, March 1, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 327.
Fessenden had been a.s.sured..."with regret": Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, pp. 365, 367 (quote).
"I desire gratefully...this great people": William Pitt Fessenden to AL, quoted in Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, p. 366.
he was nervous..."never sorry": Hugh McCulloch, Men and Measures of Half a Century: Sketches and Comments (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888; 1900), pp. 19394.
intended to replace Usher: "Usher, John Palmer," in Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, p. 317.
Hay was particularly adept..."his influence": William Leete Stone, quoted by Michael Burlingame, in introduction to Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. xiii.
Nicolay functioned...and New York: Donald, "We Are Lincoln Men," p. 209.
Hay was chosen...reconstruction of Florida: "Hay, John Milton," in Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, p. 149.
had come to believe..."the hand of G.o.d": JH to JGN, August 7, 1863, in Hay, At Lincoln's Side, p. 49 (quote); "Hay, John Milton," in Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, p. 149.
If the "patent...blinking eyes": JH to WHH, September 5, 1866, in HI, p. 332.
contemplating the purchase of a newspaper: Nicolay, Lincoln's Secretary, p. 224.
Mary had enlisted...Noah Brooks: Anson G. Henry to his wife, March 13, 1865, in Concerning Mr. Lincoln, comp. Pratt, p. 117.
tried to talk...any such discussion: JGN to TB, quoted in Nicolay, Lincoln's Secretary, p. 223.
Seward found...dissenting vote: NR, quoted in ibid., p. 224.
position paid...start married life: JGN to TB, March 12, 1865, quoted in ibid., p. 225.
Hay had recognized..."personal preeminence": "Hay's Reminiscences of the Civil War," in Hay, At Lincoln's Side, p. 129.
arranged for Hay...for another month: JH to Charles Hay, March 31, 1865, in Hay, At Lincoln's Side, p. 103.
"It will be...at the same time": JGN to TB, quoted in Nicolay, Lincoln's Secretary, p. 227.
"We are having...laid aside": MTL to Abram Wakeman, March 20, [1865], in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 20506.
note to Sumner..."familiar to me": MTL to CS, March 23, 1865, in ibid., p. 209.
"an emotional temperament...heart would break": Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 32.
an incident..."giving me up the key": Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 9192.
"so full of life...little sprite": NYTrib, July 17, 1871.
Grant had issued..."to be asked": The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant), ed. John Y. Simon (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1975), p. 141.
"Can you not...would do you good": USG to AL, March 20, 1865, Lincoln Papers.
Fox was not happy..."making the journey": John S. Barnes, "With Lincoln from Was.h.i.+ngton to Richmond in 1865," Part 1, Appleton's 9 (June 1907), p. 519.
ordered John Barnes..."very funny terms": Ibid., pp. 51720.
presidential party...Wharf at Sixth Street: Entry for March 23, 1865, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 322.
Stanton had been laid up...minutes after: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 350.
"a hurricane swept over the city": Star, February 15, 1896.
"terrific squalls...and its driver": NYH, March 24, 1865.
"while down the river...great violence": Star, February 15, 1896.
Stanton went..."at Point Lookout": EMS to AL, March 23, 1865, Lincoln Papers.
Tad raced around..."delicious fish": William H. Crook, "Lincoln as I Knew Him," Harper's Monthly 115 (May/June 1907), p. 46.
"Feeling so... loved so well": MTL to Francis B. Carpenter, November 15, [1865], in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 284.
"it was after...headquarters at the top": Crook, "Lincoln as I Knew Him," Harper's Monthly (1907), p. 46.
Robert Lincoln..."was awaiting": Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant, p. 142.
men went into...talked late into the night: Crook, "Lincoln as I Knew Him," Harper's Monthly (1907), pp. 46, 47.
While the Lincolns...original line: Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol. III: Red River to Appomattox (New York: Random House, 1958; New York: Vintage Books, 1986), pp. 838, 84045.
walked up the bluff..."ruin of homes": Barnes, "With Lincoln from Was.h.i.+ngton to Richmond in 1865," Part 1, Appleton's (1907), pp. 52122.
