Lincoln Part 169

569 enjoyed them all: The following pages draw heavily on R. Gerald McMurtry, "Lincoln Knew Shakespeare," Indiana Magazine of History 31 (Dec. 1935): 265277.

569 understand their anxieties: For perceptive commentary on Lincoln's interest in Shakespeare, see James A. Stevenson, "Abraham Lincoln's Affinity for Macbeth," Midwest Quarterly 31 (Winter 1990): 270279; Charles B. Strozier, Lincoln's Quest for Union: Public and Private Meanings (New York: Basic Books, 1982), pp. 228231; and Fehrenbacher, Lincoln in Text and Context, pp. 157163.

569 "smells to heaven": Carpenter, Six Months, pp. 4950.

569 "It is wonderful": CW, 6:392. The reference to Henry VIII, which today is rarely performed or read, may seem puzzling, but the play was highly esteemed in the nineteenth century.

569 "used to it": CW, 6:558559.

569 and the opera: The definitive treatment is Bernard, Lincoln and the Music of the Civil War, esp. chap. 16.

570 "to finish it": James Grant Wilson, "Recollections of Lincoln," Putnam's Magazine 5 (Feb. 1909): 528529; and 5 (Mar. 1909): 673.

570 "roving and travelling": WHH, interview with Mary Lincoln, Sept. 5, 1866, HWC.

570 comfortably provided for: For Lincoln's savings during the presidency, see Pratt, Personal Finances, chap. 8.

571 now in the army: On Robert's enlistment and military service, see John S. Goff, Robert Todd Lincoln: A Man in His Own Right (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969), pp. 6066.

571 "and a few others": CW, 8:367.

571 "of the crew": Pfanz, The Petersburg Campaign, p. 4. In Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1961), chaps. 2627 offer a full account of the Lincolns' visit.

572 "fatigued appearance": John W. Grattan, "Under the Blue Pennant, or Notes of a Naval Officer," p. 219, Grattan MSS, LC.

572 "him very much": Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 371.

572 "head of affairs": George R. Aga.s.siz, ed., Meade's Headquarters, 18631865: Letters of Colonel Theodore Lyman (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922), pp. 324325.

573 "following up the President": For a sensational account of this episode-the only time in her years in Was.h.i.+ngton that Mary Lincoln lost control of herself-see Adam Badeau, Grant in Peace: From Appomattox to Mount McGregor (Hartford: S. S. Scranton & Co., 1887), pp. 358360. For a more balanced account, see Randall, Mary Lincoln, pp. 372374.

573 "many b.l.o.o.d.y battles": David D. Porter's statement in Segal, Conversations, 382384. Cf. William T. Sherman, Memoirs (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1875), 2:326328.

573 "conferences or conventions": CW, 8:330331. Though this letter is signed by Stanton, it is in Lincoln's handwriting.

574 "lawlessness and anarchy": Alexander K. McClure, Recollections of Half a Century (Salem, Ma.s.s.: Salem Press Co., 1902), p. 296.

574 "to their homes": Sherman's statement in Isaac N. Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, & Co., 1885), p. 423n.

574 "to the laws": David D. Porter's statement in Segal, Conversations, p. 382.

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: I WILL TAKE CARE OF MYSELF

Donald C. Pfanz, The Petersburg Campaign: Abraham Lincoln at City Point (Lynchburg, Va.: H. E. Howard, 1989), gives a full account of Lincoln's visit to Richmond. William Hanchett, The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983), is an excellent guide to the huge literature on the conspiracy to abduct and murder Lincoln. George S. Bryan, The Great American Myth (New York: Carrick & Evans, 1940), remains the best account of the conspiracy. Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service and the a.s.sa.s.sination of Lincoln, by William A. Tidwell, James O. Hall, and David Winfred Gaddy (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1988), is an important study that comes close to linking the Confederate government to Booth's plot. Albert Furtw.a.n.gler, a.s.sa.s.sin on Stage: Brutus, Hamlet, and the Death of Lincoln (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991), is a brilliant reinterpretation of the a.s.sa.s.sination in terms of the theatrical tradition of tyrannicide. Much useful information is contained in Otto Eisenschiml, Why Was Lincoln Murdered? (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1937), and in Theodore Roscoe, The Web of Conspiracy: The Complete Story of the Men Who Murdered Abraham Lincoln (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959), but both are marred by attempts to link Stanton to the a.s.sa.s.sination. For a devastating critique of this discredited interpretation, see William Hanchett, "The Eisenschiml Thesis," Civil War History 25 (Sept. 1979): 197217. In Pursuit of...: Continuing Research in the Field of the Lincoln a.s.sa.s.sination (Surratt Society, 1990), provides many fascinating details on the plot and the a.s.sa.s.sins. W. Emerson Reck, A. Lincoln: His Last 24 Hours (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1987), is a very full and complete account.

Several excellent books deal with topics related to the a.s.sa.s.sination that are outside the scope of this biography. Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Twenty Days (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), is a fascinating pictorial history mostly concerned with the aftermath of the a.s.sa.s.sination. Thomas Reed Turner, Beware the People Weeping: Public Opinion and the a.s.sa.s.sination of Abraham Lincoln (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982), is an excellent account by a professional historian. Roy Z. Chamlee, Jr., Lincoln's a.s.sa.s.sination: A Complete Account of Their Capture, Trial, and Punishment (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1990), deals largely with the fate of the conspirators.

575 feat but failed: Carpenter, Six Months, pp. 288289.