“of the gravest…and adviser”: Entry for July 22, 1864, ibid., p. 84.
plan to foster…“by contribution”: H. P. Livingston to AL, November 14, 1864, Lincoln Papers; AL to WHS, November 17, 1864, endorsement on Livingston to AL, ibid.; WHS to AL, November 17, 1864, endorsement on Livingston to AL, ibid. (quote).
Seward had long since…“by the President”: Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 528.
“Henceforth…of the human race”: WHS, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, p. 250.
“looked older…long one, perhaps”: Benjamin, “Recollections of Secretary Edwin M. Stanton,” Century (1887), pp. 758, 759–60.
letter to Chase…“labor and care”: EMS to SPC, November 19, 1864, quoted in Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 334.
unwritten code…“felt it necessary”: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 390.
president’s assent…“interfere with him”: Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, pp. 369–70.
pressed by relatives…“circumspection”: AL to EMS, March 18, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 254–55.
Stanton replied…“promptly obeyed”: EMS to AL, March 19, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
Lincoln looked…“his friends”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 172.
clerk recalled…“wail of anguish”: William H. Whiton, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, pp. 418–19.
group of Pennsylvania…“have to be done”: EMS and AL, quoted in Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 387.
“I send this…in this blunder”: AL to USG, September 22, 1864, in CW, VIII, p. 17.
“his firmness…into arrogance”: Alonzo Rothschild, Lincoln, Master of Men: A Study in Character (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906), p. 231.
“hard to vote…is a ruffian”: Entry for September 17, 1864, in Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 489.
“Go home…be found guilty”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 246.
“Folks come up…don’t know ’em!”: AL, quoted in Rothschild, Lincoln, Master of Men, p. 285.
discreet New Englander…“political gossip”: Entry for August 31, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 131.
Times of London…“first class power”: NR, January 7, 1865.
Bates had contemplated…“to your age”: Barton Bates to EB, May 13, 1864, Bates Papers, MoSHi.
prospect of going home…“god’s blessing”: Entry for May 29, 1864, The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 371.
Bates believed…“as long as I live”: EB to AL, November 24, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
first months as Attorney General…military matters: Entry for December 31, 1861, The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, pp. 218–19; entry for January 10, 1862, ibid., pp. 223–26.
deliver a legal opinion…“and clothing”: EB to AL, July 14, 1864, OR, Ser. 3, Vol. IV, pp. 490–93 (quote p. 493).
Abolitionists applauded: Entry for May 26, 1864, The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 371.
citizenship issue…of the United States: Frank J. Williams, “Attorney General Bates and Attorney President Lincoln,” R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture, Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Ind., September 23, 2000, author’s collection; Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 222–23.
“Though esteemed…constitutional interpretation”: Daily Morning Chronicle, Washington, D.C., December 4, 1864, quoted in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 430.
reveals frustration…“no subordination”: Entry for October 1, 1861, ibid., p. 196.
General Butler…arrests in Norfolk: Entry for August 4, 1864, ibid., pp. 393–94.
“chief fear…easy good nature”: Entry for February 13, 1864, ibid., p. 334.
troubled at the start…“sure to prevail”: EB, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 68–69.
each of his colleagues…“affable and kind”: Entry for December 2, 1864, The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 429.
Bates left…“with regret”: Entry for November 30, 1864, ibid., p. 428.
forever connected…“when I am gone”: Poem, quoted in entry for October 13, 1864, ibid., p. 419.
“My Cabinet…would have to be heeded”: AL, quoted in Titian J. Coffey, “Lincoln and the Cabinet,” in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1909 edn.), p. 197.
Holt declined the offer…“personal character”: Joseph Holt to AL, December 1, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
“I appoint you…come on at once”: AL to James Speed, in CW, VIII, p. 126.
“Will leave tomorrow for Washington”: James Speed to AL, December 1, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
“I am a…everywhere forever”: James Speed, quoted in Gary Lee Williams, “James and Joshua Speed: Lincoln’s Kentucky Friends” (Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 1971), p. 137.
“We are less now but true”: James Speed to AL, November 25, 1864, quoted in ibid., p. 138.
“a man I know…ought to know him well”: AL, quoted in Coffey, “Lincoln and the Cabinet,” in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1909 edn.), p. 197.
Had it been…“freely and publicly”: David Herbert Donald, “We Are Lincoln Men”: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003), p. 38.
“You will find…by a big office”: AL, quoted in Coffey, “Lincoln and the Cabinet,” in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1909 edn.), p. 197.
only position…“Stanton ever desired”: Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 162.
“You have been wearing…owes it to you”: Robert Grier to EMS, October 13, 1864, Stanton Papers, DLC.
Ellen Stanton…“subject tomorrow”: Entry for October 16, 1864, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 687–88.
Matthew Simpson…“I will do it”: AL, quoted in Gideon Stanton, ed., “Edwin M. Stanton.”
Grant worried…stay at his post: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 337.
Stanton informed…“among candidates”: Edwards Pierrepont to AL, November 24, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
He “felt that…higher ambition”: Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 162.
“The country cannot…fame already”: Henry Ward Beecher to EMS, November 30, 1864, quoted in ibid., p. 163.
“Often, in dark hours…fresh hope”: EMS to Henry Ward Beecher, December 4, 1864, quoted in ibid., pp. 163–64.
Welles told Lincoln…“suppose he would”: Entry for November 26, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 182.
taken his son’s…personal blow: Entry for September 27, 1864, ibid., p. 161.
“I beg you to indulge…of that Bench”: FPB to AL, October 20, 1864, quoted in Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, pp. 298–99.
“Chase and his friends…Chief-Justiceship”: MTL, quoted in “If All the Rest Oppose,” in Conversations with Lincoln, ed. Segal, p. 360.
“had been tried…stood by him”: FPB to John A. Andrew, quoted in ibid., p. 360.
“a crowning and retiring honor”: Entry for November 22, 1864, The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 428.
had “personally solicited”: Entry for October 18, 1864, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 688.
“If not overborne…to private life”: Entry for November 22, 1864, The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, pp. 427–28.
“Of Mr. Chase’s…not hesitate a moment”: AL, quoted in John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol. IX (New York: Century Co., 1890), p. 394.
similar comment…“life to the Bench”: Schuyler Colfax, quoted in Blue, Salmon P. Chase, p. 245.
“Now, I know…men can tell me”: Noah Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner’s Monthly 15 (March 1878), p. 677.
“we have stood…fitness for the office”: AL, quoted in Blue, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 244–45.
Oblivious to Stanton’s…“life & work”: SPC to EMS, October 13, 1864, Chase Papers, Vol. IV, p. 434.
“I have something…will be satisfied”: AL and John B
. Alley, quoted in John B. Alley, in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1886 edn.), pp. 581–82.
Lincoln later told Senator Chandler…“nominated Chase”: Entry for December 15, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 196.
“Probably no other…of the President”: JGN to TB, December 8, 1864, container 3, Nicolay Papers.
got the official word…“or office”: SPC to AL, December 6, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
“overflowing with…‘So help me God’”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, pp. 175–76.
“I hope the President…in the court”: Entry for December 6, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 193.
Within hours…first black barrister: John S. Rock to CS, December 17, 1864, enclosed in CS to SPC, December 21, 1864, in Selected Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. II, ed. Palmer, p. 259 n1 (quote); entry for January 21, 1865, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 519.
Sumner stood before…“of this Court”: CS, quoted in Quarles, Lincoln and the Negro, p. 232.
Rock stepped forward…“of a great people”: Harper’s Weekly, February 25, 1865.
“has been quite…with good feeling”: MTL to Mercy Levering Conkling, November 19, [1864], in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 187.
she had been terrified…“run in debt”: Keckley, Behind the Scenes, pp. 147, 149–50 (quotes).
exposed her…could not curtail: “Mary Todd Lincoln’s Unethical Conduct as First Lady,” appendix 2, in Hay, At Lincoln’s Side, pp. 185–205.
“Here is the carriage…many questions”: Entry for December 14, 1864, Taft diary.
new dress…“kid gloves”: Entry for July 3, 1873, Browning diary, quoted in appendix 2, in Hay, At Lincoln’s Side, p. 187.
“I can neither…your acting thus”: MTL to Ruth Harris, December 28, [1864], in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 196.
Newspaper reports…“tasteful decoration”: NR, January 10, 1865.
“Mrs. Lincoln was…throughout”: NR, February 17, 1865.
“Overcoats…for safe-keeping”: NR, January 6, 1865.
“a more general…and themselves”: NR, January 10, 1865.
“I was pleased…two school boys”: MTL to Sally Orne, [December 12, 1869], quoted in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 534.
lingering grief…favorite rooms: Entry for March 31, 1864, Benjamin B. French journal, reel 2, French Family Papers, DLC.
“darling Boy!…far from being”: MTL to Hannah Shearer, November 20, 1864, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 189.
Lincoln wrote to General Grant…“encumbered”: AL to USG, January 19, 1865, in CW, VIII, p. 223.
Grant replied…“Military family”: USG to AL, January 21, 1865, Lincoln Papers.
Stationed at Grant’s…“of the nation”: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 388–89.
“passing time and accumulating years”: Entry for January 1, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 218.
last surviving…buried in Ohio: Entry for January 1, 1865, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 511.
Chase wrote to…New Year’s reception: SPC to AL, January 2, 1865, Lincoln Papers.
“Without your note…bereavement”: AL to SPC, January 2, 1865, in CW, VIII, p. 195.
“a great contrast…in good spirits”: Entry for January 1, 1865, Taft diary.
“Our joy…Confederacy were numbered”: Hugh McCullough, quoted in Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 342.
“anxious…than to acquiesce”: AL to William T. Sherman, December 26, 1864, in CW, VIII, p. 181.
“We have destroyed…for six months”: FB to FPB, December 16, 1864, quoted in Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, p. 180.
also paid tribute…“great light”: AL to William T. Sherman, December 26, 1864, in CW, VIII, p. 182.
telegram announcing…“candle in his hand”: Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, pp. 316–17 (quotes p. 317).
Fort Fisher…“rebels from abroad”: NR, January 17, 1865 (quote); NR, January 18, 1865.
at the cabinet…“President was happy”: Entry for January 17, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 227.
Stephens considered…“or Atlanta”: Alexander H. Stephens, A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States, Vol. II (Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, 1870), p. 619.
nearly every other…munitions and supplies: Ibid., p. 620.
was in Savannah…“delivered to [him]”: EMS to AL, quoted in NR, January 18, 1865.
journeyed to North Carolina…“the real Stanton”: Mrs. Rufus Saxton, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 420.
confer with Sherman…“criminal dislike”: Sherman, Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, pp. 604–07; Henry W. Halleck to William Sherman, December 30, 1865, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XLIV, p. 836 (quote).
Sherman countered…“our substance”: William T. Sherman to SPC, January 11, 1865, in The Salmon P. Chase Papers, Vol. 5: Correspondence, 1865–1873, ed. John Niven (Kent, Ohio, and London, England: Kent State University Press, 1998), pp. 6–7.
“Special Field Orders…tillable ground”: Sherman, Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, p. 609; Special Field Orders, No. 15, Headquarters, Military Division of the Mississippi, January 16, 1865, OR, Ser. I, Vol. XLVII, Part II, pp. 60–62.
Freedmen’s Bureau…the South: Foner, Reconstruction, pp. 68–69.
“A question might…all the evils”: AL, “Response to a Serenade,” February 1, 1865, in CW, VIII, p. 254.
previous spring…party lines: “Thirteenth Amendment,” in Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, p. 308.
annual message…bipartisan unity: AL, “Annual Message to Congress,” December 6, 1864, in CW, VIII, p. 149.
“I have sent for you…border state vote”: AL, quoted by James S. Rollins, “The King’s Cure-All for All Evils,” in Conversations with Lincoln, ed. Segal, pp. 363–64.
assigned two…“procure those votes”: AL, quoted in John B. Alley, in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1886 edn.), pp. 585–86.
powers extended…in New York: “Thirteenth Amendment,” in Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, p. 308.
Elizabeth Blair noted…several members: EBL to SPL, January 31, 1865, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 469.
leader of the…“political associates”: Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, p. 537.
Democrats who considered changing: Harris, Lincoln’s Last Months, p. 128.
“We are like whalers…into eternity”: AL, quoted in John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol. X (New York: Century Co., 1890), p. 74.
Rumors circulated…“have failed”: AL and James M. Ashley correspondence, quoted in James M. Ashley to WHH, November 23, 1866, in HI, pp. 413–14.
“never before…within hearing”: Address of Hon. J. M. Ashley, before the Ohio Society of New York, February 19, 1899 (privately published), p. 21.
Chief Justice Chase…foreign ministries: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, pp. 185–86; Address of Hon. J. M. Ashley, p. 21.
McAllister…“Southern Confederacy”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 186.
brought forth applause…“without a murmur”: Alexander Coffroth, quoted in Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. IV (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939), p. 10.
“Hundreds of tally”…votes short: Address of Hon. J. M. Ashley, pp. 23–24.
Colfax stood…“Resolution has passed”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, pp. 186–87.
five Democrats…would have lost: Harris, Lincoln’s Last Months, p. 132.
“For a moment…ever heard before”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 187.
“Before the members…had passed”: Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 365.
Ashley brought…“great honor”: EMS, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMa
sters Stanton, p. 190.
“The passage…emancipation proclamation”: Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 365–66.
“The occasion was…They will do it”: AL, “Response to a Serenade,” February 1, 1865, in CW, VIII, p. 254.
legislatures in twenty…had spoken: “Thirteenth Amendment,” in Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, p. 308.
“And to whom…to Abraham Lincoln!”: William Lloyd Garrison, quoted in Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. X, p. 79n.
remained unconvinced…a pass: AL, pass for FPB, December 28, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
proceeding on…“without reserve”: FPB to Jefferson Davis, December 30, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
arrived in Richmond…“around him”: NR, January 19, 1865.
“Oh you Rascal…to see you”: EBL to SPL, January 16, 1865, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 463.
“might be the dreams…in his prayers”: FPB, memorandum of conversation with Jefferson Davis [January 12, 1865], Lincoln Papers.
his proposal…allied against the French: FPB, address made to Jefferson Davis [January 12, 1865], Lincoln Papers.
Davis agreed…“a Foreign Power”: FPB, memorandum of conversation with Jefferson Davis [January 12, 1865], Lincoln Papers.
Davis agreed to send…“two Countries”: Jefferson Davis to FPB, January 12, 1865, Lincoln Papers.
Lincoln consulted…immediately agreed: EMS, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 257.
“You may say…one common country”: AL to FPB, January 18, 1865, in CW, VIII, pp. 220–21.
Davis called a cabinet…Campbell: Davis, Jefferson Davis, p. 590.
flag of truce…the commissioners: Philadelphia Inquirer, February 3, 1865.
“By common consent…a gala day”: NYH, February 4, 1865.
“harbingers of peace…common sentiment”: NR, February 3, 1865.
“It was night…throughout the country”: Stephens, A Constitutional View of the Late War, pp. 597–98.
Seward headed south…“sincere liberality”: AL to WHS, January 31, 1865, in CW, VIII, p. 250.
“convinced”…meet with them personally: USG to EMS, February 1, 1865, Lincoln Papers.
“Induced by a despatch of Gen. Grant”: AL to WHS, February 2, 1865, in CW, VIII, p. 256.