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41 "kindness and honesty": Mentor Graham to WHH, May 29, 1865, HWC.
41 "old law functionary": Jason Duncan to WHH, [1865], HWC.
42 "dollars per month": CW, 1:320.
42 "plenty of friends": Roy P. Basler, ed., "James Quay Howard's Notes on Lincoln," ALQ 4 (Dec. 1947): 391.
43 "in the country": All quotations in the following paragraphs are from this announcement. CW, 1:59.
43 "cabin steamer Talisman": For a detailed account, see Harry E. Pratt, "Lincoln Pilots the Talisman," ALQ 2 (Sept. 1943): 319329.
44 "brain rattling man": Hardin Bale to WHH, May 29, 1865, HWC.
44 down the river: Mentor Graham to WHH, May 29, 1865, HWC.
44 "petered out": Herndon's Lincoln, 1:85.
44 Black Hawk War: For detailed accounts of Lincoln's military experiences, see Harry E. Pratt, "Lincoln in the Black Hawk War," Bulletin of the Abraham Lincoln a.s.sociation, no. 54 (Dec. 1938): 313, and Pratt's article on the same subject in O. Fritiof Ander, ed., The John H. Hauberg Historical Essays (Rock Island, III.: Augustana Book Concern, 1954), pp. 1828.
44 sworn in to service: Wayne C. Temple, Lincoln's Arms, Dress and Military Duty During and After the Black Hawk War (Springfield: State of Illinois Military and Naval Department, 1981), p. 12.
44 and joined them: Reep, Lincoln at New Salem, p. 40.
44 "have had since": CW, 3:512.
45 "to do so": W. G. Greene to WHH, May 30, 1865, HWC.
45 "often very hungry": CW, 1:509510.
45 "than enlist again ": Herndon's Lincoln, 1:100.
46 "Rivers of Illinois": Henry McHenry to WHH, May 29, 1865, HWC.
46 "and a straw hat": Herndon's Lincoln, 1:103.
46 "or Clay, man": Lincoln's corrections in W. D. Howells, Life of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, Ill.: Abraham Lincoln a.s.sociation, 1938), p. 40.
46 "old woman's dance": Herndon's Lincoln, 1:104.
46 "of the people": CW, 4:64.
46 "to go to": Ibid., pp. 6465.
47 "of the whole": Herndon's Lincoln, 1:107.
47 selection of shoes: Beveridge, 1:127.
47 and American novelists: The story that Lincoln read the sentimental novels of Caroline Lee Hentz at this time is incorrect, since Mrs. Hentz's first novel was not published until 1846. Roy P. Basler, ed., Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings (Cleveland: World Publis.h.i.+ng Co., 1946), p. 6.
