Authors: Doris Kearns Goodwin
“the most beautiful…my own”: MTL to Hannah Shearer, July 11, 1861, Turner and Turner,
Mary Todd Lincoln,
p. 94.
drives with the Sewards: See entries for September 1, 3, and 6, 1861, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers, for examples of afternoons spent driving with Sewards; FAS to LW, [August 1861], reel 119, Seward Papers.
“a plain…& the crops”: FAS to LW, [July 1861?], reel 119, Seward Papers.
“I liked him…all over him”: Entry for September 1, 1861, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
“
abandon
of…climb a rope”:
NYT,
June 17, 1861.
“With one impulse…mouth to mouth”: Entry for September 6, 1861, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
“I love…and does”: Entry for September 9, 1861, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
“palatial…tasteful & attractive”: FAS to LW, [July 1861?], reel 119, Seward Papers.
confined to her bed by migraines: See FAS to LW, [August 1861], reel 119, Seward Papers; “‘I have supped full on horrors,’ from Fanny Seward’s Diary,” ed. Patricia Carley Johnson,
American Heritage
X (October 1959), p. 62.
vacation in upstate New York and Long Branch: Entry for August 14, 1861, in
Lincoln Day by Day,
Vol. III, p. 60.
“especially as…her husband”: FAS to LW, [July 1861?], reel 119, Seward Papers.
word came…“company in the evening”: Entry for September 9, 1861, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
“If things…my husband”: MTL, quoted in George B. Lincoln to GW, April 25, 1874, quoted in “New Light on the Seward-Welles-Lincoln Controversy,”
Lincoln Lore
1718 (April 1981), p. 3.
“It makes me…skein of thread”: MTL, quoted in Elizabeth Keckley,
Behind the Scenes. Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House.
The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers Series (New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1868; New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 131.
the long evenings Lincoln spent at Seward’s: Hendrick,
Lincoln’s War Cabinet,
p. 186.
“My friend…churchwarden!”: Wilson,
Intimate Memories of Lincoln,
p. 422.
“a tithe…read for ever”: Entry for October 12, 1861, in Hay,
Inside Lincoln’s White House,
p. 26.
“personal courage…the enemy is”: Entry for October 10, 1861, in ibid., p. 25.
brought up the Chicago convention…“his life in his hand”: Entry for October 17, 1861, in ibid., pp. 26, 27.
probably rekindled memories…on the circuit: Taylor,
William Henry Seward,
p. 188.
the fighting…in Missouri: See Nicolay and Hay,
Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. IV, chapter 11, esp. pp. 206–11; Thomas L. Snead, “The First Year of the War in Missouri,” in
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,
Vol. I,
Part I,
Grant-Lee edition (New York: Century Co., 1887–88; Harrisburg, Penn.: Archive Society, 1991), pp. 262–65.
Frank Blair…General Nathaniel Lyon: Snead, “The First Year of the War in Missouri,”
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,
Vol. I, Pt. 1, pp. 264–68; Williams,
Lincoln and the Radicals,
p. 39; “Missouri for the Union,” in Parrish,
Frank Blair.
“thickly veiled”…revolvers: Snead, “The First Year of the War in Missouri,”
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,
Vol. I, Pt. 1, p. 265 (quote); see also Franklin A. Dick, “Memorandum of Matters in Missouri,” Papers ofF. A. Dick, Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
the “earnest solicitation”: Entry for December 9, 1863, in Hay,
Inside Lincoln’s White House,
p. 123.
“He is just…eminently practical”: “Editorial, 3 August 1861,” in Hay,
Lincoln’s Journalist,
p. 84.
“There was…magical influence”: Koerner,
Memoirs of Gustave Koerner,
Vol. II, p. 162.
“recklessness in expenditures”: JGN, memorandum of September 17, 1861, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
Tales circulated…unwanted visitors: Ibid.; FB to Governor Dennison, September 19, 1861, quoted in Smith,
The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics,
Vol. II, pp. 79–80.
Frémont…had chosen to stay: Lorenzo Thomas to Simon Cameron, October 21, 1861, in
OR,
Ser. 1, Vol. III, p. 543; Parrish,
Frank Blair,
p. 116.
General Lyon’s death…devastating defeat: Entries for August 10 and September 20, 1861, in Long,
The Civil War Day by Day,
pp. 107, 120.
Frémont issued a bold proclamation…“declared freemen”: Proclamation of John C. Frémont, August 30, 1861, in
OR,
Ser. 1, Vol. III, pp. 466–67 (quotes p. 467).
far exceeded…their future status: Joseph Holt to AL, September 12, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
Lincoln learned of…a private letter to Frémont: Nicolay and Hay,
Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. IV, pp. 416, 417–18.
unilaterally recast…war against slavery: Benjamin Quarles,
Lincoln and the Negro
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1962; repr. New York: Da Capo Press, 1990), p. 71.
has “anxiety…so as to conform”: AL to John C. Frémont, September 2, 1861, in
CW,
IV, p. 506.
“Fremont’s proclamation…future condition”: AL to Orville H. Browning, September 22, 1861, in ibid., p. 531.
“The trouble…only to himself”: Carpenter, “A Day with Governor Seward,” Seward Papers.
“unable to eat…on such a principle”: Joshua Speed to AL, September 3, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“I know that you…to the very foundations”: FB to MB, September 1, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
he himself had reluctantly concluded: Williams,
Lincoln and the Radicals,
pp. 48–49.
“but being…public interests”: MB to AL, September 4, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
General Meigs and Montgomery Blair…“look into the affair”: JGN, memorandum of September 17, 1861, container 2, Nicolay Papers; entry for September 10 to September 18, 1861, extracts from diary of Montgomery C. Meigs, container 13, Nicolay Papers.
Jessie…arrived in Washington: “The Lincoln Interview: Excerpt from ‘Great Events,’” in
The Letters of Jessie Benton Frémont,
ed. Pamela Herr and Mary Lee Spence (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993), pp. 264–65.
“If I were…I did not do so”: John C. Frémont to AL, September 8, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“You are quite a female politician”: “The Lincoln Interview,”
Letters of Jessie Benton Frémont,
p. 266.
“taxed me…for himself”: Entry for December 9, 1863, in Hay,
Inside Lincoln’s White House,
p. 123.
she asked Lincoln…when he was ready: “The Lincoln Interview,”
Letters of Jessie Benton Frémont,
p. 266.
Lincoln wrote…“an open order”: AL to John C. Frémont, September 11, 1861, in
CW,
IV, pp. 517–18.
he sent it to be mailed: Jessie Benton Frémont to AL, September 12, 1861, in
Letters of Jessie Benton Frémont,
p. 271 n1.
“He had always…now very angry”: “The Lincoln Interview,”
Letters of Jessie Benton Frémont,
p. 267.
the elder Blair revealed: Jessie B. Frémont to AL, September 12, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“examine into that Department”: AL to Jessie B. Frémont, September 12, 1861, draft copy, Lincoln Papers.
“threatened the old man…from responsibility”: MB to W. O. Barlett, September 26, 1861, copy, reel 21, Blair Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress [hereafter Blair Family Papers, DLC].
“most incautious”: EBL to SPL, October 7, 1861, in
Wartime Washington,
ed. Laas, p. 83.
“The rebels…for defence”: Entry for September 10 to September 18, 1861, extracts from diary of Montgomery C. Meigs, container 13, Nicolay Papers.
“a full & plain…should be consulted”: MB to AL, September 14, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
Rumors circulated: Entry for December 28, 1861, in
The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866,
p. 217; EBL to SPL, October 19, 1861, in
Wartime Washington,
ed. Laas, pp. 88, 90 n2.
“with a view…removal”:
NYT,
September 17, 1861.
“unbecoming…gentleman”: Smith,
The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics,
Vol. II, p. 78.
Monty interceded: MB to John C. Frémont, September 20, 1861, copy, reel 21, Blair Family Papers, DLC.
the trial, which would never take place: MB to FPB, October 1, 1861, box 7, folder 6, Blair-Lee Papers, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library [hereafter Blair-Lee Papers, NjP-SC].
“Were you not…proclamation?”: FAS to LW, [c. September 4, 1861], quoted in Seward,
Seward at Washington…1846–1861,
p. 612.
“has cast…
step backwards”
: Joseph Medill to SPC, September 15, 1861, reel 17, Chase Papers.
“poor white trash”: Benjamin F. Wade to Zachariah Chandler, September 23, 1861, reel 1, Papers of Zachariah Chandler, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
“Many blunders…them all”:
Douglass’ Monthly
(October 1861), pp. 530–31.
Blair and Meigs delivered: Entry for September 18, 1861, in
Lincoln Day by Day,
Vol. III, p. 67.
“is determined…Missouri”: MB to FPB, October 1, 1861, box 7, folder 6, Blair-Lee Papers, NjP-SC.
“more damage…can do”: EB to SPC, September 11, 1861, reel 17, Chase Papers.
“distressed & mortified”: EB to James O. Broadhead, September 28, 1861, Broadhead Papers, MoSHi.
“Immense mischief…place of action”: EB to Hamilton Gamble, October 3, 1861, Hamilton Rowan Gamble Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo. [hereafter Gamble Papers, MoShi].
“I think God…in his Cabinet”: FB to MB, October 7, 1861, quoted in Smith,
The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics,
Vol. II, pp. 83–84.
“a letter directing…and conduct”: Simon Cameron to AL, October 12, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“was very much mortified”…talked with the president: Simon Cameron to AL, October 14, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“constitution…with its management”:
NYT,
October 31, 1861. For the report, see Lorenzo Thomas to Simon Cameron, October 21, 1861, in
OR,
Ser. 1, Vol. III, pp. 540–49.
“yielded to delay…
deserve it”
: Entry of October 22, 1861, in
The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866,
pp. 198–99.
Lincoln dispatched…Swett: Entry for October 24, 1861, in
Lincoln Day by Day,
Vol. III, p. 73.
“the most remarkable”…publication:
NYT,
October 31, 1861.
When Swett reached Missouri: Leonard Swett to AL, November 9, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“frown came over…‘my lines?’”: General T. I. McKenny, quoted in Ida M. Tarbell,
The Life of Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. III, Sangamon Edition (4 vols., n.p.: S. S. McClure Co., 1895; New York: Lincoln History Society, 1924), pp. 122–25 (quote p. 124).
“justified…is possible”:
NYT,
November 7, 1861.
“Slowly…our judgment”:
Philadelphia Inquirer,
October 31, 1861.
“Lincoln…the whole story”:
NYH,
November 7, 1861.
“I am…publ[ic] duty”: SPC to Richard Smith, November 11, 1861, reel 18, Chase Papers.
the Confederacy had dispatched…Mason and Slidell: Van Deusen,
William Henry Seward,
p. 308.
Charles Wilkes…Fort Warren in Boston:
NYT,
November 17 and 19, 1861.
“We do not believe…been found”:
NYT,
November 17, 1861.
Wilkes was fêted…a great banquet:
NYT,
November 26 and 27, 1861.
“three cheers…Wilkes”: Smith,
Francis Preston Blair,
p. 315.
“great and general satisfaction”: Entry for November 16, 1861, in
The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866,
p. 202.
Chase reportedly…seized the British ship:
NYT,
November 19, 1861.
“the items…Mason & Slidell!”: AL to Edward Everett, November 18, 1861, in
CW,
V, p. 26.
“intelligence…Mail Steamer”:
The Times
(London), quoted in the
NYT,
December 13, 1861.
“reparation and apology”:
Morning Post
(London), quoted in the
NYT,
December 14, 1861.
Fabricated details: Charles Francis Adams to Henry Adams, December 19, 1861,
A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861–1865,
Vol. I, ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920), p. 86.
“acted without…directed by us”: WHS to Charles Francis Adams, undated, quoted in Frederick W. Seward,
Seward at Washington, as Senator and Secretary of State. A Memoir of His Life, with Selections from His Letters, 1861–1872
(New York: Derby & Miller, 1891), p. 21.
The first public response should come from the British government: WHS to Charles Francis Adams, undated, quoted in ibid., p. 24.
“if the taking…
it means war”
: TW to WHS, December 2, 1861, quoted in ibid., pp. 27, 28 (quote).