Team Of Rivals Part 120

Though a severe rainstorm: Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (New York: C. L. Webster, 1885; New York: Modern Library, 1999), p. 152.

"plain brother...a presentiment": USG to Mary Grant, February 9, 1862, The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Vol. IV: January 8March 31, 1862, ed. John Y. Simon (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972), p. 180.

Buckner, proposed a cease-fire..."can be accepted": USG to Simon B. Buckner, February 16, 1862, enclosure 3 of USG to G. W. Cullum, February 16, 1862, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. VII, p. 161.

Buckner...taken prisoner: USG to General G. W. Cullum, February 16, 1862, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. VII, p. 159.

More than a thousand troops: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 401.

"a most b.l.o.o.d.y...brought through": Captain L. D. Waddell to William Coventry H. Wadell, quoted in NYT, February 26, 1862.

Hundred-gun salutes: NYT, February 18, 1862.

"quite wild with Excitement": Entry for February 15, 1862, Taft diary.

"the gallery rose...enthusiastic cheers": NYT, February 18, 1862.

to illuminate the capital's public buildings...Was.h.i.+ngton's birthday: NYH, February 21, 1862.

promoting him to major general: Entry for February 17, 1862, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 95.

Lincoln had been following: Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. I, p. 462.

"I have come among you...fellow-citizen": USG, "Proclamation, to the Citizens of Paducah!" September 6, 1861, The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Vol. II: AprilSeptember 1861, ed. John Y. Simon (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969), p. 194.

"Grant had taken the field"...items to the front: Isaac N. Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, & Co., 1885), p. 281.

Fort Donelson's capture...capture of New Orleans: For more on events from the surrender of Fort Donelson to the capture of New Orleans, see McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 40220.

It is believed that both boys...typhoid fever: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 208: Seale, The President's House, Vol. I, p. 379.

Willie was affected...more severely: MTL to Julia Ann Sprigg, May 29, 1862, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 128; Milton H. Shutes, "Mortality of the Five Lincoln Boys," Lincoln Herald 57 (Spring Summer 1955), p. 4.

"grew weaker...shadow-like": Keckley, Behind the Scenes, p. 98.

symptoms of his illness: "Typhus, Typhoid, and Relapsing Fevers," Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. XXIII, ed. Day Otis Kellogg (30 vols., New York and Chicago: The Werner Company, 1898), pp. 67879.

"almost wore...with watching": Benjamin B. French to Henry F. French, February 27, 1862, reel 5, Papers of Benjamin B. French Family, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress [hereafter French Family Papers, DLC].

She canceled the customary: Unknown Was.h.i.+ngton newspaper, quoted in Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 197.

"pretty much all his attention": JGN to TB, February 11, 1862, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

Willie would call for..."tenderly to bed": Bayne, Tad Lincoln's Father, pp. 199200.

celebratory illuminations were canceled: Entry for February 23, 1862, in French, Witness to the Young Republic, p. 388; Benjamin B. French to Henry F. French, February 27, 1862, reel 5, French Family Papers, DLC.

"the President...of their affliction": Star, February 18, 1862.

"as if they did...So the doctors say": Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, p. 66.

on Thursday, February 20, Willie died: Entry for February 20, 1862, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 96.

"Well, Nicolay...actually gone!": Entry for February 20, 1862, notebook, FebruaryMarch 1862, container 1, Nicolay Papers.

"buried his head...ofher old age": Keckley, Behind the Scenes, pp. 103, 104.

She took to her bed...ease her grief: Rebecca R. Pomroy to "Mary," March 27, 1862, Rebecca R. Pomroy Letters, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College [hereafter Pomroy Letters].

He sent his carriage to the Brownings...Tad's bedside: Entries for February 20 and 21, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 530.

He asked...Mary Jane, to sit with the boy: Niven, Gideon Welles, pp. 44243.

Julia Bates...also watched over him: Entry for February 22, 1862, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 236.

Lincoln turned to Dorothea Dix: Anna L. Boyden, Echoes from Hospital and White House: A Record of Mrs. Rebecca R. Pomroy's Experience in War-times (Boston: D. Lothrop & Co., 1884), p. 52.

a powerful woman..."out of fas.h.i.+on": Dorothy Clarke Wilson, Stranger and Traveler: The Story of Dorothea Dix, American Reformer (Boston: Little, Brown, 1975), p. 256.

Dix chose Rebecca Pomroy..."turn right in": Pomroy to "Mary," March 27, 1862, Pomroy Letters.

Willie's body lay..."Oh, why is it?": AL, quoted in Boyden, Echoes from Hospital and White House, pp. 5456 (quotes pp. 54, 56).

Tad would awaken...gown and slippers: Pomroy to "Mary," March 27, 1862, Pomroy Letters.

Lincoln drove with Browning to Oak Hill Cemetery: Entry for February 23, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 531.

The funeral service...in the East Room: National Intelligencer, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., February 25, 1862; Star, February 24, 1862.

"keep the boys...in the casket": Bayne, Tad Lincoln's Father, p. 200.

"He lay with his eyes...for the evening": Nathaniel Parker Willis, quoted in Keckley, Behind the Scenes, p. 108.

"no spectator"...the East Room service: Entry for March 2, 1862, in French, Witness to the Young Republic, p. 389.

Congress had adjourned: Star, February 24, 1862; National Intelligencer, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., February 25, 1862; entry for February 24, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 531.

a frightful storm arose: Benjamin B. French to Henry F. French, February 27, 1862, reel 5, French Family Papers, DLC; Star, February 25, 1862.

stormy weather...the grave: William G. Greene interview, May 30, 1865, in HI, p. 21.

Mary found it difficult to endure: Elizabeth Todd Edwards to Julia Edwards Baker, quoted in Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 287.

She never invited them back to the White House: Bayne, Tad Lincoln's Father, p. 200.

In her talks with Mrs. Pomroy...her own family: Boyden, Echoes from Hospital and White House, pp. 5859.

she should surrender to G.o.d's will: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 214.