Team Of Rivals Part 106

"seven days and seventeen hours": Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. I, p. 140.

"grand...in every respect": NYTrib, March 7, 1861.

"convincing...manner": New York Evening Post, reprinted in NYTrib, March 7, 1861.

"eminently...under the Const.i.tution": Philadelphia Bulletin, reprinted in NYTrib, March 7, 1861.

"the work...its contents": Commercial Advertiser, N.Y., reprinted in NYTrib, March 7, 1861.

"wretchedly...unstatesmanlike paper": Hartford Times, reprinted in NYTrib, March 7, 1861.

"It is he...Civil War": Atlas and Argus, Albany, N.Y., quoted in Albany Evening Journal, March 5, 1861.

"couched in the cool...civil war": Richmond Enquirer, reprinted in NYTrib, March 7, 1861.

"might as well...inevitable": Herald, Wilmington, N.C., quoted in Star, March 7, 1861.

"won some favorable...slave states": Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 248.

"without getting...can stand": WHS to FAS, March 8, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 518.

"been fully justified...my country": Entry for March 4, 1861, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 76.

Radicals...considered an appeasing tone: T. Harry Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1941), p. 22.

Frederick Dougla.s.s...cruel slaveholders: Frederick Dougla.s.s, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Dougla.s.s, an American Slave, introduction by Houston A. Baker, Jr. (The Anti-Slavery Office, 1845; New York: Penguin Books, 1986), chapters IX.

"it was unlawful...rid of thinking!": Ibid., pp. 78 (first quote), 84 (second and third quotes).

"no more pervasive...in America": Blight, Frederick Dougla.s.s' Civil War, p. 3.

"It has taught...the Presidency": Dougla.s.s' Monthly (December 1860).

"no lawful power...Pierces and Buchanans": Dougla.s.s' Monthly (April 1861).

White House family quarters: William Seale, The President's House: A History, Vol. I (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.: White House Historical a.s.sociation/National Geographic Society, 1986) pp. 366, 368, 377, 37980, ill.u.s.tration 41.

"the grounds...closets": WHS to home, March 16, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 530.

hundreds of people...securing a job: Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, p. 147; William O. Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln's Secretary, ed. Michael Burlingame (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2000), p. 5.

"from Edward...that he was handsome": Grimsley, "Six Months in the White House," JISHS, pp. 47, 48.

memorizing railroad timetables..."perfect precision": John Hay, "Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln," Century 41 (November 1890), p. 35.

Tad..."worry of the household": Grimsley, "Six Months in the White House," JISHS, pp. 4849.

A speech impediment: Bayne, Tad Lincoln's Father, p. 8; Hay, "Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln," Century (1890), p. 35.

"a very bad...discipline": NYTrib, July 17, 1871.

The boys harried the staff: Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, pp. 2627; NYTrib, July 17, 1871; Bayne, Tad Lincoln's Father, pp. 10206.

"If there was...a good time": Bayne, Tad Lincoln's Father, p. 107.

Seward had proposed: Grimsley, "Six Months in the White House," JISHS, p. 49.

"For over two hours...at the windows": JGN to TB, March 10, 1861, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

"well dressed...social courtesy": Entry for March 8, 1861, reel 76, Charles Francis Adams diary.

"was voted by...ever known here": JGN to TB, March 10, 1861, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

"This is certainly...she has been here": MTL to Hannah Shearer, March [28, 1861], in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 82.

"light and capricious"...morning schedule: Hay, "Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln," Century (1890), p. 34.

white marble fireplace...a panorama: Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 416.

description of the Cabinet Room: Seale, The President's House, Vol. I, pp. 364, 367; Isaac Arnold, quoted in Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 416.

"the very first...in his hands": Entry for July 3, 1861, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 476.

"that their provisions...their relief": Memorandum, July 3, 1861, quoted in John G. Nicolay, With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 18601865, ed. Michael Burlingame (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000), p. 47.

"I now see...surrender": Joseph Holt and Winfield Scott to AL, March 5, 1861, Lincoln Papers.

to "reclaim...yourselves the aggressors": AL, "First Inaugural Address-First Edition and Revisions," January 1861, in CW, IV, p. 254 (first and second quotes); AL, "First Inaugural Address-Final Text," March 4, 1861, in ibid., p. 271 (third and fourth quotes).

"to eat or sleep": AL, quoted in Villard, Memoirs of Henry Villard, Vol. I, p. 156.

"he had literally...I must see them": Hay, "Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln," Century (1890), pp. 34, 33.

"has no conception...security now": Entry for March 10, 1861, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 76.

"owes a higher...office-hunters": NYT, April 4, 1861.

"The President proposes...upon him most": WHS to home, March 16, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 530.

"long-skirted...around his waist": Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 418.

his large leather Bible..."inaudible music": Bayne, Tad Lincoln's Father, pp. 3233.

Lincoln penned a note: AL to Winfield Scott, March 9, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 279.

Scott's reply..."20,000 volunteers": Winfield Scott to AL, March 11, 1861, Lincoln Papers.

"was disinclined...to be understood": Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 6.