Team of Rivals (179 page)

Robert, who had remained…“leaving his cheeks”: Thomas F. Pendel,
Thirty-Six Years in the White House
(Washington, D.C.: Neale Publishing Company, 1902), pp. 42–43.

to summon Tad…his father’s condition: Leale to Butler, July 20, 1867, container 43, Butler Papers, DLC.

Tad and his tutor…to see
Aladdin:
M. Helen Palmes Moss, “Lincoln and Wilkes Booth as Seen on the Day of the Assassination,”
Century
LXXVII (April 1909), p. 951.

decorated with patriotic…“shrieking in agony”:
NR,
April 15, 1865.

“Poor little Tad…fell into a sound sleep”: Pendel,
Thirty-Six Years in the White House,
p. 44.

entire cabinet…“heartrending lamentations”:
NYH,
April 16, 1865.

“there was not a soul…love the president”:
Star,
February 15, 1896.

“While evidently swayed…in all things”: A. F. Rockwell, quoted in Flower,
Edwin McMasters Stanton,
p. 283.

dictated numerous dispatches…“wait for the next”:
Star,
February 15, 1896.

first telegram…“in a dangerous condition”: Thomas T. Eckert to USG, April 14, 1865,
OR,
Ser. 1, Vol. XLVI, Part III, pp. 744–45.

reached Grant…“in perfect silence”: Porter,
Campaigning with Grant,
p. 499.

he had turned “very pale”:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant,
p. 156.

Julia Grant guessed…“that could be received”: Porter,
Campaigning with Grant,
pp. 499–500.

he told Julia…“tenderness and magnanimity”:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant,
p. 156.

At 1 a.m., Stanton telegraphed…“best detectives”: EMS to John H. Kennedy, April 15, 1865,
OR,
Ser. 1, Vol. XLVI, Part III, p. 783.

“The wound is mortal…is now dying”: EMS to John A. Dix, April 15, 1865, 1:30 a.m.,
OR,
Ser. 1, Vol. XLVI, Part III, p. 780.

“The President continues…shot the President”: Ibid., 4:10 a.m., p. 781.

Shortly after dawn…“death-struggle had begun”: Entry for April 14, 1865,
Welles diary,
Vol. II, p. 288.

“As she entered”…sofa in the parlor: Taft, “Abraham Lincoln’s Last Hours,”
Century
45 (1893), p. 635.

“the town clocks…be again resumed”: Field,
Memories of Many Men,
p. 325.

“Let us pray”…everyone present knelt: Leale to Butler, July 20, 1867, container 43, Butler Papers, DLC.

At 7:22 a.m…. “belongs to the ages”: Donald,
Lincoln,
p. 599. As David Donald notes, witnesses thought theyheard several variations of Stanton’s utterance, including “He belongs to the ages now,” “He now belongs to the Ages,” and “He is a man for the ages.” Donald,
Lincoln,
p. 686, endnote for p. 599 beginning
“to the ages.”

“Oh, why did you not…he was dying”:
NYH,
April 16, 1865.

moans could be heard…taken to her carriage: Taft, “Abraham Lincoln’s Last Hours,”
Century
45 (1893), p. 636; Field,
Memories of Many Men,
p. 326.

Stanton’s “coolness”…streamed down his cheeks:
NYH,
April 16, 1865.

“Stanton’s grief…break down and weep bitterly”: Porter,
Campaigning with Grant,
p. 501.

“Not everyone knows…his honor and yours”: JH to EMS, July 26, 1865, in Hay,
At Lincoln’s Side,
p. 106.

“Is he dead?…entire face was distorted”: Field,
Memories of Many Men,
p. 327.

walked to Seward’s house…Blair and his father: Entry for April 15, 1865,
Chase Papers,
Vol. I, pp. 529, 530.

“with tearful eyes…of our side”: EBL to SPL, April 15, 1865, in
Wartime Washington,
ed. Laas, p. 495.

Richmond Whig…
“South has descended”:
Richmond Whig,
quoted in Robert S. Harper,
Lincoln and the Press
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1951), p. 360.

St. Louis…comfortable study: Entry for January 27, 1865,
The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866,
p. 443.

“the astounding news…country and for myself”: Entry for April 15, 1865, in ibid., p. 473.

News of Lincoln’s death…“sinking into his mind”: Brooks,
Mr. Lincoln’s Washington,
pp. 458–59 (quotes p. 459).

“The history of governments…confidence and regard”: “Hay’s Reminiscences of the Civil War,” in Hay,
At Lincoln’s Side,
pp. 128–29.

Flags remained…“the farewell march”: Brooks,
Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time,
pp. 271 (quote), 273.

nearly two hundred thousand Union soldiers: Smith,
The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics,
Vol. II, p. 185.

“Never in the history…shrill call of bugles”: Brooks,
Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time,
pp. 272–74.

“magnificent and imposing spectacle”: Entry for May 19, 1865,
Welles diary,
Vol. II, p. 310.

“You see in these…half a dozen presidents”: EMS, quoted in Flower,
Edwin McMasters Stanton,
p. 288.

“more and more dim…found in every family”: AL, “Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois,” January 27, 1838, in
CW,
I, p. 115.

“a new birth of freedom…perish from the earth”: AL, “Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg,” final text, November 19, 1863, in
CW,
VII, p. 23.

second day belonged…“with our swords”: Sherman,
Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman,
p. 731.

All of Washington…“All felt this”: Entry for April 19, 1865,
Welles diary,
Vol. II, p. 310.

“a Cabinet which should…than one counsellor”: WHS, “The President and His Cabinet,” October 20, 1865,
Works of William H. Seward,
Vol. V, p. 527.

“I have no doubt…greatest man I ever knew”: Tribute by General Grant, in Browne,
The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln,
p. 7.

“I have more than once…Nineteenth Century”: Walt Whitman, “November Boughs,”
The Complete Prose Works of Walt Whitman,
Vol. III (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Knickerbocker Press, 1902), pp. 206–07.

Leo Tolstoy…“light beams directly on us”: Leo Tolstoy, quoted in
The World,
New York, February 7, 1908.

“Every man is said…yet to be developed”: AL, “Communication to the People of Sangamo County,” March 9, 1832, in
CW,
I, p. 8.

“he had done nothing…that he had lived”: AL, paraphrased in Joshua F. Speed to WHH, February 7, 1866, in
HI,
p. 197.

“conceived in Liberty…all men are created equal”: AL, “Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863; Edward Everett Copy,” in
CW,
VII, p. 21.

“With malice toward none; with charity for all”: AL, “Second Inaugural Address,” March 4, 1865,
CW,
VIII, p. 333.

EPILOGUE

“night of horrors”: Entries for April 14, 1865,
Chase Papers,
Vol. I, p. 529.

“vicarious suffering”: FAS, in “Miscellaneous Fragments in Mrs. Seward’s Handwriting,” reel 197, Seward Papers.

“the largest…woman in America”:
New York Independent,
undated, in Seward family scrapbook, Seward House Foundation Historical Association, Inc., Library, Auburn, N.Y.

Fanny remained…tuberculosis: Taylor,
William Henry Seward,
p. 266.

Seward was inconsolable: Van Deusen,
William Henry Seward,
p. 417.

“Truly it may…mother and daughter”:
Washington Republican,
undated, in Seward family scrapbook, Seward House.

attempts to mediate…radicals in Congress: Van Deusen,
William Henry Seward,
p. 452.

“Seward’s Folly”: Taylor,
William Henry Seward,
p. 278.

spent his last years traveling: Ibid., pp. 290–91, 292–94;
NYT,
October 11, 1872.

Jenny asked…“Love one another”: Taylor,
William Henry Seward,
p. 296; Seward,
Seward at Washington…1861–1872,
p. 508 (quote).

Thurlow Weed…wept openly: Taylor,
William Henry Seward,
p. 296.

Stanton’s remaining…asked for his resignation: Pratt,
Stanton,
p. 452; Thomas and Hyman,
Stanton,
p. 583.

Refusing to honor…removal order: George C. Gorham,
Life and Public Services of Edwin M. Stanton,
Vol. II (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, Riverside Press, 1899), p. 444.

“barricaded himself”: Pratt,
Stanton,
p. 452.

taking his meals in the department: Thomas and Hyman,
Stanton,
p. 595.

Tenure of Office Act: “Tenure of Office Act,” in
The Reader’s Companion to American History,
ed. Foner and Garraty, pp. 1,063–64.

impeachment failed…submitted his resignation: Thomas and Hyman,
Stanton,
p. 608.

Grant nominated him…“only office”: Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 178.

short-lived…severe asthma attack:
Dictionary of American Biography,
Vol. IX, ed. Dumas Malone (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935; 1964), p. 520; Thomas and Hyman,
Stanton,
pp. 637–38; Christopher Bates, “Stanton, Edwin McMasters,” in
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War,
ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 1852.

“I know that it is…he was then”: Robert Todd Lincoln to Edwin L. Stanton, quoted in Thomas and Hyman,
Stanton,
p. 638.

close-knit family…Confederate Army: Cain,
Lincoln’s Attorney General,
p. 330.

“it was in his social…death cannot sever”: Address by Colonel J. C. Broadhead, in “Addresses by the Members of the St. Louis Bar on the Death of Edward Bates,” Bates Papers, MoSHi.

impeachment trial…resting with the Democrats: Blue,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 285.

Kate serving…derailed his ambitions:
Dictionary of American Biography,
Vol. II, ed. Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929; 1958), p. 33.

switched his allegiance…to Horace Greeley: Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
pp. 447–48.

physical condition weakened…depression: Ibid., pp. 444, 448–49.

“too much of an invalid…I were dead”: SPC to Richard C. Parsons, May 5, 1873,
Chase Papers,
Vol. V, p. 370.

Kate saw her marriage…died in poverty: Belden and Belden,
So Fell the Angels,
pp. 297–98, 306–10, 320, 326–27, 348.

Frank Blair…intemperate denunciations:
Dictionary of American Biography,
Vol. I, ed. Allen Johnson (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927; 1964), pp. 333–34.

died from a fall:
NYT,
July 10, 1875.

“his physical vigor…of disposition”:
Sun,
Baltimore, Md., October 19, 1876.

Montgomery served…biography of Andrew Jackson:
Dictionary of American Biography,
Vol. I (1964 edn.), p. 340.

wrote a series…“herculean tasks”: Niven,
Gideon Welles,
pp. 576–77 (quote p. 576).

perceptive diary…streptococcus infection: Ibid., pp. 578, 580.

remained friends…abridged version: Nicolay,
Lincoln’s Secretary,
pp. 301, 342.

Shortly before he died…“overpowering melancholy”: William Roscoe Thayer,
The Life and Letters of John Hay
(Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1929), pp. 405, 407.

“each morning…as an impossibility”: MTL to EBL, August 25, 1865, in Turner and Turner,
Mary Todd Lincoln,
p. 268.

“precious Tad…gladly welcome death”: MTL to Alexander Williamson, [May 26, 1867], in ibid., p. 422.

Tad journeyed…“beyond his years”:
NYTrib,
July 17, 1871.

“compression of the heart”: Turner and Turner,
Mary Todd Lincoln,
p. 585.

“The modest and cordial…fantastic enterprises”:
NYTrib,
July 17, 1871.

“It is very hard…to the contrary”: Robert Todd Lincoln to Mary Harlan, quoted in Helm,
The True Story of Mary,
p. 267.

erratic behavior…permanently estranged: Randall,
Mary Lincoln,
pp. 430–34.

virtual recluse…fulfilled at last: Ibid., pp. 442–43.