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424 Department of Agriculture: For careful studies of this nonmilitary legislation, see Leonard P. Curry, Blueprint for Modern America: Nonmilitary Legislation of the First Civil War Congress (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968), and Heather c.o.x Richardson, "Constructing 'the Greatest Nation of the Earth': Economic Policies of the Republican Party During the American Civil War" (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1992).
424 "if they deserve it": James Ford Rhodes, History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 (New York: Macmillan Co., 1907), 4:24ln.
425 "get along yet": T. Harry Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1941), pp. 280281.
425 "ray of hope left": E. B. Ward to B. F. Wade, Feb. 7,1863, Wade MSS, LC.
425 "of James Buchanan": Asa Mahan to Zachariah Chandler, Mar. 3, 1863, Chandler MSS, LC.
425 "a traitor out and out": Chandler to Let.i.tia Chandler, Feb. 7, 1863, Chandler MSS, LC.
425 declined to sign it: For White's campaign against Seward, see White's unsigned memorial to AL, Jan. [12] 1863, William Butler MSS, Chicago Historical Society; White to Benjamin F. Wade, Dec. 27, 1862, Wade MSS, LC; White to Simon Cameron, Jan. 11, 1863, Cameron MSS, LC; Lyman Trumbull to William Butler, Jan. 11,1863, Butler MSS; Donald, Sumner, pp. 103105.
425 removal of Seward: New York Tribune, Jan. 19,1863.
426 "stand by the President": Hamlin to Ellen Hamlin, Jan. 11,1863, Hamlin MSS, microfilm, Columbia University; Charles E. Hamlin, The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin (Cambridge, Ma.s.s.: Riverside Press, 1899), pp. 452453.
426 "almost dictatorial powers":. J. F. Ankeny to E. B. Washburne, Feb. 3, 1863, Washburne MSS, LC.
426 "be no serious opposition": Giddings to Salmon P. Chase, Jan. 13,1863, Chase MSS.
426 "and really republican": Salmon P. Chase to Benjamin F. Butler, Dec. 14,1862, Chase MSS.
426 was "growing feeble": Benjamin Brown French, Witness to the Young Republic (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1989), pp. 416417.
426 "tells a joke now": Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, Memoir of John A Dahlgren (Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1882), p. 387.
426 "as I have been": Moncure Daniel Conway, Autobiography: Memories and Experiences (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1904), 1:379.
427 "of these anniversaries": Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 147.
427 "sometimes with him": The evidence on Mary Lincoln and spiritualism is admirably summarized in Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 217222.
427 her guests mechanically: For a sympathetic account of Mrs. Lincoln during these years, see Randall, Mary Lincoln, esp. chap. 25.
427 three-foot-four-inch guest: San Francisco Daily Alta California, Mar. 18,1863.
428 "forefeet up": Leonard Swett to "My Dear Boy," Feb. 23, 1863, David Davis MSS, ISHL.
428 now mostly slept: This paragraph draws on the full, sympathetic account of Tad in Ruth Painter Randall, Lincoln's Sons (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1955), esp. pp. 137138.
428 "better than he had": Virginia Woodbury Fox, Diary, Apr. 29, 1863, Levi Woodbury MSS, LC.
429 "was laughing at": Hay, Diary, p. 179.
429 "a great man": Ibid., p. 91.
429 "everything seem wrong": Conway, Autobiography, 1:379.
