Authors: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Seward rapidly maneuvered…see his face: Carpenter,
Six Months at the White House,
p. 56.
“He blushed…and over his face”:
NYH,
March 12, 1864.
“his warmest campaign during the war”: Carpenter,
Six Months at the White House,
p. 56.
The president…“walk it abreast”: Porter,
Campaigning with Grant,
p. 20.
Grant wanted nothing more…“presidential chair”: J. Russell Jones recollections, quoted in Tarbell,
Life of Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. II (1917 edn.), pp. 187–88.
made their way back…Grant wrote out his statement: Smith,
Grant,
p. 290; Memorandum, March 9, 1864, container 3, Nicolay Papers.
“quite embarrassed…difficult to read”: Memorandum, March 9, 1864, container 3, Nicolay Papers.
went upstairs to talk…assistance was needed: Grant,
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant,
p. 370.
Grant journeyed…
“‘show’
business!”: Carpenter,
Six Months at the White House,
p. 57.
“trappings and…canopy of heaven”: Elihu Washburne, quoted in Blaine,
Twenty Years of Congress,
p. 510.
his preference for pork…“in spasms”:
NYT,
March 31, 1864.
“was done exactly…into history”: McFeely,
Grant,
p. 152.
“unusually backward”…end of the month: Entry for May 1, 1864, in
The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866,
p. 363.
“stormy and inclement…of the Old Dominion”: Dispatch of April 11, 1864, in Stoddard,
Dispatches from Lincoln’s White House,
p. 219.
“the toughest snowstorm…ever I saw him”: Entry for March 23, 1864, in French,
Witness to the Young Republic,
p. 447.
“as pleasant and funny”…Saturday levee: Benjamin B. French to Pamela Prentiss French, April 10, 1864, transcription, reel 10, French Family Papers, DLC.
he strolled into John Hay’s room…“‘is of me’”: “24 April 1864, Sunday,” in Hay,
Inside Lincoln’s White House,
p. 188.
“a beleaguered nation…was never bright”: J. G. Randall,
The Civil War and Reconstruction
(1937; Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1953), pp. 670, 347.
“real suffering…in the social scale”:
NYT,
July 7, 1864.
Food riots had broken out…vandalized: Randall,
The Civil War and Reconstruction,
p. 670; Emory M. Thomas,
The Confederate Nation, 1861–1865.
New American Nation Series (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), pp. 199–206.
Davis’s health gradually…isolated himself: Davis,
Jefferson Davis,
pp. 539–40, 551–53.
The “tramp” of his feet: Entry for May 8, 1864, in Mary Chesnut,
Mary Chesnut’s Civil War,
ed. C. Vann Woodward (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), p. 601.
Washington was filled…were imminent: Dispatch of May 2, 1864, in Stoddard,
Dispatches from Lincoln’s White House,
p. 223.
“beginning to feel…generally been failures”: JGN to TB, May 1, 1864, container 3, Nicolay Papers.
Lincoln wrote him a letter…“dignity at once”: “30 April 1864, Saturday,” in Hay,
Inside Lincoln’s White House,
p. 192.
“entire satisfaction…power to give”: AL to USG, April 30, 1864, in
CW,
VII, p. 324.
“been astonished…fault is not with you”: USG to AL, May 1, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
the Army…from the James River: Michael Korda,
Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero.
Eminent Lives Series (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), p. 97.
“This concerted movement…in numbers”: “30 April 1864, Saturday,” in Hay,
Inside Lincoln’s White House,
p. 193.
great “solicitude…great advantages”: Entry for May 1, 1864, in Browning,
The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning,
Vol. I, p. 668.
the Wilderness: E. M. Law, “From the Wilderness to Cold Harbor,” in
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,
Vol. IV, Pt. I, p. 122; McFeely,
Grant,
p. 167; Gordon C. Rhea,
The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5–6, 1864
(Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1994), pp. 27, 51, 142, 163, 178, 193.
climb over the dead…“three and four deep”:
NYT,
May 15, 1864.
“a nightmare of inhumanity”: McFeely,
Grant,
p. 165.
86,000 Union and Confederate casualties: Table of casualties, Noah Andre Trudeau,
Bloody Roads South: The Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May–June 1864
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1989), p. 341.
“The world has never seen…never will again”: USG to Julia Dent Grant, May 13, 1864, in
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant.
Vol. X:
January 1–May 31, 1864,
ed. John Y. Simon (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982), p. 444.
“always regretted…was ever made”: Grant,
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant,
p. 462.
as steamers reached the city…“torture and pain”: Brooks,
Mr. Lincoln’s Washington,
pp. 320, 323 (quotes).
Judge Taft was present…others limping along: Entry for May 11, 1864, Taft diary.
As each steamer landed…“and manly”: Brooks,
Mr. Lincoln’s Washington,
p. 323.
Elizabeth Blair fled…“for my nerves”: EBL to SPL, May 30, 1864, in
Wartime Washington,
ed. Laas, p. 386.
“The carnage has been unexampled”: Entry for May 15, 1864, in
The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866,
p. 366.
“it seems to myself…battle of the war”: WHS, diplomatic circular of May 16, 1864, quoted in Seward,
Seward at Washington…1861–1872,
p. 219.
“The intense anxiety…for mental activity”: Entry for May 17, 1864,
Welles diary,
Vol. II, p. 33.
“more nervous and anxious…and disaster”: JGN to TB, May 15, 1864, container 3, Nicolay Papers.
nights when Lincoln did not sleep: Entry for May 7, 1864,
Welles diary,
Vol. II, p. 25.
“met him…his breast”: Carpenter,
Six Months at the White House,
p. 30.
made time…an opera: Grover, “Lincoln’s Interest in the Theater,”
Century
(1909), p. 947; entry for May 18, 1864, in
Lincoln Day by Day,
Vol. III, p. 259; Schuyler Colfax,
Life and Principles of Abraham Lincoln
(Philadelphia: Jas. B. Rodgers, 1865), p. 12.
“People may think…it will kill me”: AL, quoted in Colfax,
Life and Principles of Abraham Lincoln,
p. 12.
“I saw [Lincoln] walk…and anxious scrutiny”: Colfax in
Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln,
ed. Rice (1886 edn.), pp. 337–38.
“any other General…that wins”: “9 May 1864, Monday,” in Hay,
Inside Lincoln’s White House,
p. 195.
Lincoln hugged and kissed…“no turning back”: Henry E. Wing,
When Lincoln Kissed Me: A Story of the Wilderness Campaign
(New York: Eaton & Mains, and Cincinnati: Jennings & Graham, 1913), pp. 12–13, 38–39.
“I propose to fight it out…all summer”: USG to EMS, May 11, 1864, in
Papers of Ulysses S. Grant,
Vol. X, p. 422.
Lincoln’s face lit up…“the secret” to the army’s fortunes:
NYT,
May 18, 1864.
Chase grew restless…retained the hope: Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 364.
Weed had repeatedly warned…Treasury employees: JGN to AL, March 30, 1864; TW to AL, March 25, 1864; W. W. Williams to TW, March 25, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
corrupt Treasury agents…“inevitably sink”: TW to FWS, June 2, 1864, reel 84, Seward Papers.
Frank Blair had resigned…Treasury agent: Leonard B. Wurthman, Jr., “Frank Blair: Lincoln’s Congressional Spokesman,”
Missouri Historical Review
LXIV (April 1970), pp. 278–79, 284–86; “Charges Against a Member,” April 23, 1864,
Congressional Globe,
38th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 1827–29; Parrish,
Frank Blair,
p. 192.
he began by calmly…for the presidency: FB remarks before the House of Representatives, April 23, 1864,
Congressional Globe,
38th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 1828–32 (quote p. 1829).
Elizabeth Blair…“revenge is suicide”: EBL to SPL, April 23 and June 13, 1864, in
Wartime Washington,
ed. Laas, pp. 369, 392.
“mendacious slanders”: Thomas Heaton to SPC, April 29, 1864, reel 33, Chase Papers.
“violent and injudicious…with discretion”: Entry for April 28, 1864,
Welles diary,
Vol. II, p. 20.
told about the speech…“approval of the President”: Riddle,
Recollection of War Times,
pp. 267, 268.
He considered Frank Blair…“did while here”: James A. Garfield to J. Harrison Rhodes, April 28, 1864, quoted in Smith,
The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield,
Vol. I, p. 376.
Chase told Riddle…“perfectly satisfied”: Riddle,
Recollection of War Times,
pp. 268, 270–76.
“in the midst…actual din of battle”: Brooks,
Mr. Lincoln’s Washington,
p. 325.
the National Union Convention: Ibid., pp. 332–33. According to Brooks, twenty-three states “were represented without contest,” and the contested delegations of Missouri and Tennessee were allowed to vote. Unofficial representatives from Confederate states and the territories attended but were not included on the official roll.
David Davis…“no one is necessary”: David Davis to AL, June 2, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
Horace Greeley…“so heavy investments”: Horace Greeley, quoted in
Conversations with Lincoln,
ed. Segal, pp. 320–21.
“popular instinct…the popular will”: William Dennison, et al., to AL, June 14, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
“the country at large…but Lincoln’s”: Brooks,
Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time,
p. 140.
gathered in Cleveland’s: Waugh,
Reelecting Lincoln,
pp. 177–80.
with a platform…“among the soldiers”: Resolutions of the “Radical Democracy” party platform, quoted in
NYT,
June 1, 1864.
in the telegraph office…“four hundred men”: Bates,
Lincoln in the Telegraph Office,
pp. 194–95 (quote p. 195).
“renomination…the odd bits of gossip”: Brooks,
Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time,
p. 141.
was initially confronted…“short-haired women”: Clark E. Carr, quoted in Waugh,
Reelecting Lincoln,
p. 192.
the radicals had tacitly…unanimous: Ibid., pp. 195, 196.
the tumultuous applause…“defense of their country”: “Platform of the Union National Convention,” quoted in note 1 of AL, “Reply to the Committee Notifying Lincoln of His Renomination,” June 9, 1864, in
CW,
VII, pp. 381–82.
“The enthusiasm…Lincoln was spoken”: Brooks,
Mr. Lincoln’s Washington,
p. 335.
“a purge of any”…platform in full: Sixth plank of Union Convention platform, paraphrased in Waugh,
Reelecting Lincoln,
p. 193.
“Harmony was…their kerchiefs”:
NR,
June 9, 1864.
his towering presence…allotted to a single state: Waugh,
Reelecting Lincoln,
pp. 199–200; Brooks,
Mr. Lincoln’s Washington,
p. 326.
Weed had initially supported…the victorious Johnson: Thomas,
Abraham Lincoln,
p. 429.
“Stanton’s theory…the United States”: Albert E. H. Johnson, quoted in
New York Evening Post,
July 13, 1891.
a clerk handed him a dispatch…“a President?”: AL, quoted in Carpenter,
Six Months at the White House,
p. 163.
“the cart before the horse”:
NR,
June 9, 1864.
The embarrassed operator…“on my return”: AL, quoted in Carpenter,
Six Months at the White House,
p. 163.
a committee appointed…of his nomination: Ibid., p. 166; entry for June 9, 1864, in
Lincoln Day by Day,
Vol. III, p. 263.
did not assume…“‘when crossing streams’”: AL, “Reply to Delegation from the National Union League,” June 9, 1864, in
CW,
VII, pp. 383–84 (quote p. 384).
the Ohio delegation…“under his command”: AL, “Response to a Serenade by the Ohio Delegation,” June 9, 1864, in ibid., p. 384.
“nothing could defeat…like to die of”:
NYT,
June 13, 1864.
CHAPTER 24: “ATLANTA IS OURS”
“Our troops have…but little”: Entry for June 20, 1864,
Welles diary,
Vol. II, pp. 54–55.
“The immense slaughter…sickens us all”: Entry for June 2, 1864, ibid., p. 44.
“steady courage”: Dispatch of June 6, 1864, in Stoddard,
Dispatches from Lincoln’s White House,
p. 234.
nearly lost his life at Cold Harbor: Janet W. Seward, “Personal Experiences of the Civil War,” Seward Papers, NRU.