Team Of Rivals Part 110

Bates, though reluctant to oppose Taney: Cain, Lincoln's Attorney General, pp. 145, 147.

"in a time...the insurgents": EB to AL, July 5, 1861, Lincoln Papers.

As chief executive..."one be violated?": AL, "Message to Congress in Special Session," July 4, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 430.

"grave threats...extravagant to endure": Justice Thurgood Marshall, dissenting opinion in Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' a.s.sociation, 489 U.S. 602 (1989), text available through Legal Information Inst.i.tute website, Cornell Law School, www.law.cornell.edu (accessed June 2003).

"government will...be less liberty": GW to Mary Jane Welles, May 5, 1861 (transcript), reel 19, Welles Papers.

"steps and balconies"...Mary and her friends watched: NYT, May 1, 1861.

"go down to Charleston...an Illinois yell": "25 April 1861, Thursday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 11.

more than eight thousand troops were in Was.h.i.+ngton: WHS to FAS, April 26, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 559.

He did not, however, grant her request: FAS to WHS, April [27? 1861], reel 114, Seward Papers.

almost completed..."at all hours": Anna Wharton Seward to FAS, April 28, 1861, reel 116, Seward Papers.

"immense sacrifice...awaits the oppressors": FAS to WHS, April [28? 1861], reel 114, Seward Papers.

"there would be...serenely adjusted": Conversation between WHS and Charles King, reported in entry of May 20, 1861, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 144.

"to disturb as little...of the people": Entry of April 15, 1861, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 183.

a "fatal error...of the North": MB to AL, May 16, 1861, Lincoln Papers.

"I consider...to govern themselves": "7 May, Tuesday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 20.

John Stuart Mill..."the civilized world": John Stuart Mill, quoted in McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 550.

"the dissolution...established in America": The Earl of Shrewsbury, quoted in ibid., p. 551.

"It is of infinite...the various parts": George Was.h.i.+ngton, "Farewell Address," September 17, 1796, in A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Vol. I (New York: Bureau of National Literature, Inc., 1897), p. 207.

"a mortar battery...a.s.sa.s.sination suspicion": "19 April 1861, Friday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, pp. 23.

"Thousands of soldiers...to feel secure": MTL to Mrs. Samuel H. Melvin, April 27, 1861, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 86.

"The intense...around the city": Elizabeth Grimsley to Mrs. John T. Stuart, April 29, 1861, quoted in Concerning Mr. Lincoln, comp. Pratt, p. 77.

Tad boasted...from the roof: Bayne, Tad Lincoln's Father, pp. 6869 (quotes p. 68).

"between the grey haired...plough hardened hands": "20 April 1861, Sat.u.r.day," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 4.

"rather pale...all 'go ahead'": Entry for January 13, 1862, The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 18611865, available through "Was.h.i.+ngton During the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 18611865," American Memory, Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov [hereafter Taft diary].

"More than once...arm of the chair": Bayne, Tad Lincoln's Father, pp. 35, 108.

Julia was appalled: Ibid., pp. 101, 10206, 10910.

"the most lovable...gentle-mannered": Ibid., p. 8.

retreat to his mother's room...write verses: Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 120.

"what she wanted when she wanted it": Bayne, Tad Lincoln's Father, p. 49.

A curious example...purple strings!: Ibid., pp. 4348 (quotes p. 45).

brothers and brothers-in-law: Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 294; Ishbel Ross, The President's Wife: Mary Todd Lincoln, A Biography (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973), p. 144.

the White House..."unsuccessful hotel": Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, p. 26.

"the family apartments...(first President)": Grimsley, "Six Months in the White House," JISHS, p. 47.

went on a shopping trip: See entries for May 1022, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, pp. 4143.

$20,000 allowance to maintain the White House: Seale, The President's House, Vol. I, p. 382.

state guest room..."cl.u.s.ters of grapes": Betty C. Monkman, The White House: Its Historic Furnis.h.i.+ngs and First Families (New York: Abbeville Press, 2000), p. 125.

The press exaggerated...never even visited: Grimsley, "Six Months in the White House," JISHS, pp. 5859.

the bills added up: Entries for May 13, 21, 24, and 29, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, pp. 41, 4345.

Kate Chase was hard at work...to borrow $10,000: Ross, Proud Kate, p. 62; SPC to Henry Carrington, April 16, 1861, reel 15, Chase Papers.

Chase later complained...with the president: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, p. 94.

"in a single season"...William Sprague: William Perrine, "The Das.h.i.+ng Kate Chase and Her Great Ambition," Ladies' Home Journal XVIII (June 1901), p. 11.

Kate had first met..."see the other": Richard Parsons, quoted in Ohio State Journal, Columbus, Ohio, August 4, 1899.

Sprague would never forget..."it was yesterday": William Sprague to KCS, May 27, 1866, William and Catherine Chase Sprague Papers, 18501900, MS 79. 17, Ma.n.u.script Division, Special Collections Department, Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island [hereafter Sprague Papers].

William Sprague: Peg A. Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague: Politics and Gender in a Civil War Marriage (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), pp. 2728.

"I was thrust...highest positions": William Sprague, quoted in Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague, p. 32.

As the largest employer...of his own money: "The Rhode Island Spragues," unknown newspaper clipping, December 5, 1883, in KCS vertical file, DWP.

"a loan...the troops": Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, p. 42; ninety-six horses, Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague, p. 39.

On April 29..."movements of the regiment": Star, April 29, 1861.

physical description of Sprague: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, p. 42.

"a small...wealth and social standing": "26 April 1861, Friday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 12.