Authors: Doris Kearns Goodwin
At 2 p.m…. soon joined him: Guelzo,
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation,
p. 182.
he “took a pen”…put the pen down: Carpenter,
Six Months at the White House,
p. 269.
“I never…signing this paper”: AL quoted in Seward,
Seward at Washington…1861–1872,
p. 151.
“If my name…soul is in it”: Carpenter,
Six Months at the White House,
p. 269.
“stiff and numb”: Seward,
Seward at Washington…1861–1872,
p. 151.
“If my hand trembles…‘He hesitated’”: Carpenter,
Six Months at the White House,
p. 269.
“slowly and carefully”…sent out to the press: Seward,
Seward at Washington…1861–1872,
p. 151.
“Has Lincoln played false to humanity?”: Entry for January 1, 1863, in Adam Gurowski,
Diary from November 18, 1862 to October 18, 1863.
Vol. II. Burt Franklin: Research & Source Works #229 (New York, 1864; New York: Burt Franklin, 1968), p. 61.
At Tremont Temple…Anna Dickinson: Frederick Douglass,
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself
(1893 edn.), reprinted in
Frederick Douglass, Autobiographies.
Library of America Series (New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1994) p. 790 (quote);
Boston Journal,
January 2, 1863;
Boston Transcript,
January 2, 1863.
At the nearby Music Hall…Oliver Wendell Holmes:
Boston Journal,
January 2, 1863;
Boston Post,
January 2, 1863; Quarles,
Lincoln and the Negro,
p. 143.
“Every moment…one other chance”: Douglass,
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass,
p. 791.
“had absolutely no foundation…to the quick”: Helm,
The True Story of Mary,
pp. 208–09.
Mary had rushed…the joyous occasion: MTL to CS, December 30, 1862, in Turner and Turner,
Mary Todd Lincoln,
p. 144.
“was becoming agony…joy and gladness”: Douglass,
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass,
p. 791.
“It was a sublime…with us, here”: Eliza S. Quincy to MTL, January 2, 1863, Lincoln Papers.
a crowd of serenaders…in securing their freedom: Guelzo,
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation,
p. 186;
NYT,
January 3, 1863 (quote).
“Whatever partial…goes backward”:
Boston Daily Evening Transcript,
January 2, 1863.
“Strange phenomenon…in all future ages”: James A. Garfield to Burke Hinsdale, January 6, 1863, quoted in Theodore Clarke Smith,
The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield.
Vol. I:
1831–1877
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925), p. 266.
“Fellow-citizens…the latest generation”: AL, “Annual Message to Congress,” December 1, 1862, in
CW,
V, p. 537.
“had done nothing…will be realized”: AL, paraphrased in Joshua F. Speed to WHH, February 7, 1866, in
HI,
p. 197.
“discord in the North…spirit of the nation”:
Louisville Journal,
quoted in
Boston Post,
January 2, 1863.
“union and harmony…destruction”: WHS to FS, September 1862, quoted in Seward,
Seward at Washington…1861–1872,
p. 135.
“It is my conviction…sustained it”: AL, quoted in Carpenter,
Six Months at the White House,
p. 77.
“slavery and quiet…
by tremendous majorities”: Walt Whitman, “Origins of Attempted Secession,”
The Complete Prose Works of Walt Whitman,
Vol. II (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons/The Knickerbocker Press, 1902), p. 155.
“A man watches…strong enough to defeat the purpose”: AL, quoted in Carpenter,
Six Months at the White House,
p. 77.
Horatio Seymour denounced…inaugural message: Guelzo,
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation,
p. 187.
James Robinson recommended:
NYT,
January 10, 1863.
Democratic legislatures…“crusade against Slavery”: Oliver P. Morton to EMS, February 9, 1863, reel 3, Stanton Papers, DLC.
“under the subterfuge…oppose the War”: JGN to TB, January 11, 1863, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
The “fire in the rear”: AL, quoted in CS to Francis Lieber, January 17, 1863, quoted in Edward L. Pierce,
Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner.
Vol. IV:
1860–1874
(Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893), p. 114.
Army of the Potomac into winter quarters…“Valley Forge of the war”: McPherson,
Battle Cry of Freedom,
pp. 586–88, 590 (quote).
Copperheads: McPherson,
Battle Cry of Freedom,
pp. 493, 591, 593, 600; John C. Waugh,
Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency
(New York: Crown Publishers, 1997), p. 91.
“fearfully changed”…a piercing shriek: Brooks,
Mr. Lincoln’s Washington,
pp. 105–06.
“Ought this war”…then let her go: Clement L. Vallandigham, “The Constitution—Peace—Reunion,” January 14, 1863,
Appendix to the Congressional Globe,
37th Cong., 3rd sess. pp. 55, 57–59 (quotes on p. 55).
The time had come…let her go: Brooks,
Mr. Lincoln’s Washington,
p. 70.
Saulsbury…removed from the Senate floor: Ibid., pp. 87–88.
“baneful…only for the negro”: Andrew H. Foote, paraphrased in entry for January 9, 1863, in Browning,
The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning,
Vol. I, p. 611.
Orville Browning, who considered…“the government”: Entry for January 26, 1863, in ibid., p. 620.
“conversed with…will re enlist”: Entry for January 29, 1863, in ibid., pp. 620–21 (quotes p. 621).
“the alarming condition…a fixed thing”: Entry for January 19, 1863, in ibid., p. 616.
“the democrats would soon…leave them”: Entry for January 26, 1863, in ibid., p. 620.
“The resources…can be maintained”: AL, “To the Workingmen of London,” February 2, 1863, in
CW,
VI, pp. 88–89.
the people’s representatives had passed: See Curry,
Blueprint for Modern America.
“the grandest pledge…means to prevail”:
NYT,
February 20, 1863.
“largest popular gathering…home of the brave”:
NYT,
April 21, 1863.
“the greatest popular…in Washington”:
Daily Morning Chronicle,
Washington, D.C., April 1, 1863.
Lincoln was dressed…of his father’s embrace: Jane Grey Swisshelm, quoted in
St. Cloud [Minn.] Democrat,
April 9, 1863, in Frank Klement, “Jane Grey Swisshelm and Lincoln: A Feminist Fusses and Frets,”
Abraham Lincoln Quarterly
6 (December 1950), pp. 235–36.
Lincoln sent a telegram to Thurlow Weed…“and so I sent for you”: AL, quoted in Barnes,
Memoir of Thurlow Weed,
pp. 434–35.
The amount needed was $15,000: Ibid., p. 435; AL to TW, February 19, 1862, in
CW,
VI, pp. 112–13.
“to influence…Connecticut elections”: Entry for February 10, 1863,
Welles diary,
Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 235.
“a stunning blow to the Copperheads”:
NYT,
April 8, 1863.
“puts the Administration…seas to the end”:
NYT,
April 9, 1863.
“frightened”…depress voter sentiment: JH to Mrs. Charles Hay, April 23, 1863, in Hay,
At Lincoln’s Side,
p. 38.
“I rejoiced…the War commenced”: EMS to Isabella Beecher Hooker, May 6, 1863, in Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 160.
“The feeling of…everywhere manifest”: JGN to TB, March 22, 1863, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
“The glamour…the denunciations”: Brooks,
Mr. Lincoln’s Washington,
p. 138.
when Lincoln engaged…
“be crippled”:
Entry for January 17, 1863, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
“Well…not one has got there yet”: AL, quoted in “Personal,”
Daily Morning Chronicle,
Washington, D.C., May 2, 1863.
“smoking cigars…‘good victuals’”: Brooks,
Mr. Lincoln’s Washington,
p. 175.
At one dinner party…“[had] ever known”: Entry for January 28, 1863,
Diary of George Templeton Strong,
Vol. III, p. 292.
welcome diversion in the telegraph office: Bates,
Lincoln in the Telegraph Office,
pp. 41–42, 143, 190.
“Abe was in…‘none anywhere else’”: AL, quoted in entry for April 21, 1863, in Dahlgren,
Memoir of John A. Dahlgren,
p. 390.
“a little after midnight…queer little conceits”: Entry for April 30, 1864, in Hay,
Inside Lincoln’s White House,
p. 194.
“Only those…heart bleeds”: MTL to Mary Janes Welles, February 21, 1863, reel 35, Welles Papers.
Mary had gamely resumed…“to bear up”: MTL to Benjamin B. French, March 10, 1863, in Thomas F. Schwartz and Kim M. Bauer, “Unpublished Mary Todd Lincoln,”
Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association
17 (Summer 1996), p. 5.
“affable and pleasant…out of sight”: Entry for February 22, 1863, in French,
Witness to the Young Republic,
p. 417.
“much shorter…his composition”: Entry for February 12, 1863, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
In gratitude to Rebecca Pomroy…“look their best”: Boyden,
Echoes from Hospital and White House,
pp. 131–32.
“brilliantly lighted…children’s children”: Pomroy, quoted in ibid., pp. 132–33.
Swisshelm had initially…“and its cause”: Jane Grey Swisshelm,
Half a Century
(Chicago: J. G. Swisshelm, 1880), pp. 236–37 (quotes p. 237).
Mary was delighted…Nettie Colburn: Nettie Colburn Maynard,
Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist?, or Curious Revelations from the Life of a Trance Medium
(Philadelphia: Rufus C. Hartranft, 1891), p. 83.
“very choice spirits…agreeable ladies”: Joshua F. Speed to AL, October 26, 1863, Lincoln Papers.
“Welcome, Mr. Lincoln…
I was coming”
: Mr. Laurie and AL, quoted in Maynard,
Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist?,
p. 83.
The guests settled into…“easy chairs of the day”: S. P. Kase, quoted in J. J. Fitzgerrell,
Lincoln Was a Spiritualist
(Los Angeles: Austin Publishing Co., 1924), pp. 18–19.
“Well, Miss Nettie…say to me to-night?”: Maynard,
Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist?,
p. 85.
There is no evidence that Lincoln…“learn the secret”: “Lord Colchester—Spirit Medium,”
Lincoln Lore,
no. 1497 (November 1962), p. 4.
She spoke for an hour…“not this wonderful?”: S. P. Kase, quoted in Fitzgerrell,
Lincoln Was a Spiritualist,
pp. 20–21.
“I have neither…I must resume it”: SPC to Horace Greeley, January 28, 1863, reel 24, Chase Papers.
Chase became physically ill…make it through: SPC to Richard C. Parsons, February 16, 1863, reel 25, Chase Papers.
his own handsome face…every dollar bill: SPC,
“Going Home to Vote.” Authentic Speeches of S. P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, During His Visit to Ohio, with His Speeches at Indianapolis, and at the Mass Meeting in Baltimore, October, 1863
(Washington, D.C.: W. H. Moore, 1863), p. 25; Brooks,
Mr. Lincoln’s Washington,
p. 176.
his own strained finances…bonds to the public: SPC to Jay Cooke, June 2, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers.
Charles Benjamin…quickly make amends: Benjamin, “Recollections of Secretary Edwin M. Stanton,”
Century
(1887), p. 759.
asked why he disliked…“detested it”: Entry for April 25, 1863,
Diary of George Templeton Strong,
Vol. III, p. 314.
“nervous irritability”: E. D. Townsend,
Anecdotes of the Civil War in the United States
(New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1884), p. 136.
his asthma…consent to seek rest: Benjamin, “Recollections of Secretary Edwin M. Stanton,”
Century
(1887), pp. 759–60.
he enjoyed reading…attitude to the war: Ibid., p. 766; Johnson, “Reminiscences of the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton,”
RCHS
(1910), p. 80 (quote).
Stanton refused to bring…remained at his post: Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 161; Thomas and Hyman,
Stanton,
pp. 165–66.
“would rather make”…ask Stanton for a favor: JH to JGN, November 25, 1863, quoted in Hay,
At Lincoln’s Side,
p. 69.
Even when Stanton’s own son…an official appointment: Johnson, “Reminiscences of the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton,”
RCHS
(1910), p. 92.
rarely returned to Steubenville…for the funeral in Ohio:
NYT,
April 14, 1863; Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 130a.
Pamphila’s conviction…died from overwork: Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 159.
the War Department utilize the services…“to Mr. Capen”: AL, “Memorandum Concerning Francis L. Capen’s Weather Forecasts,” April 28, 1863, in
CW,
VI, pp. 190–91.