Team Of Rivals Part 151

"came down from...all who met him": Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 217, 218.

"plain and substantial...hero of Vicksburg": NYH, June 25, 1864.

Lincoln conversed..."three capital jokes": Sylva.n.u.s Cadwallader, Three Years with Grant: As Recalled by War Correspondent Sylva.n.u.s Cadwallader, ed. Benjamin P. Thomas (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956), p. 232.

Grant suggested a ride..."met him on all sides": Porter, Campaigning with Grant, p. 218 (quote); NR, June 24, 1864.

"a long and lingering look": NYH, June 25, 1864.

pa.s.sed a brigade..."spontaneous outburst": Cadwallader, Three Years with Grant, p. 233.

"and his voice...if he had inherited it": Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 22223.

General Grant took Lincoln aside..."but I will go in": USG, quoted in entry for June 26, 1864, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 673.

"sunburnt and...position and good spirits": "23 June 1864, Thursday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 210.

regular Friday cabinet meeting..."the General and army": Entry for June 24, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 58.

project his own renewed hope..."as a commander": NYTrib, June 25, 1864.

"of the condition...terms of confidence": Philadelphia Inquirer, June 25, 1864.

"Having hope...your goals": Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence (New York: Bantam Books, 1995), p. 87. Goleman quotes C. R. Snyder in the third quote.

"We are today...within a year": Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 343.

John Cisco...own presidential hopes: John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol. IX (New York: Century Co., 1917), p. 91.

Lincoln told Chase...for Maunsell Field: SPC to AL, June 27, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

Field was serving..."executive character": Chittenden, Recollections of President Lincoln (1901 edn.), pp. 371, 374.

Chase awoke the morning after...to the Ephesians: Entry for June 28, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, pp. 46566.

"Stand therefore...righteousness": Ephesians 6:14.

"I can not"...on another nominee: AL to SPC, June 28, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 41213.

Chase wrote an immediate request: SPC to AL, June 28, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

He telegraphed Cisco...three months: SPC to John J. Cisco, June 28, 1864, reel 34, Chase Papers; entry for June 28, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 467.

"The difficulty...open revolt": AL to SPC, June 28, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 41314.

He began his letter..."my resignation": John J. Cisco to SPC, June 28, 1864; SPC to AL, June 29, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

"I opened it...I did not long reflect": AL, quoted in Field, Memories of Many Men, pp. 30102.

"You have been acting...I will go": "30 June 1864, Thursday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 213.

"Your resignation...with the public service": AL to SPC, June 30, 1864, in CW, VII, p. 419.

Lincoln called John Hay...the opening prayer: "30 June 1864, Thursday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 212.

Lincoln's penitent request...he was needed: Field, Memories of Many Men, p. 303.

After breakfast...it had been accepted: Chase Papers, Vol. I, pp. 46970 (quotes p. 470).

spoke of "mutual embarra.s.sment": AL to SPC, June 30, 1864, in CW, VII, p. 419.

"I had found...fitness of selection": Entry for June 30, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 470.

"his full armor of n.o.ble sentiments": Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. IX, p. 84.

"The Senators were struck"...vehement protest: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 119.

"Fessenden was frightened...was mad": AL, quoted in "30 June 1864, Thursday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 213.

Lincoln listened patiently..."meet each other": Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, pp. 119120 (quotes p. 120).

Chase had declined to attend: Entry for June 24, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 58.

"unendurable...the last straw": Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, pp. 120, 121.

"very nervous & cut up": "30 June 1864, Thursday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 214.

Chittenden was equally..."thoroughly miserable": AL, quoted in Chittenden, Recollections of President Lincoln (1901 edn.), pp. 37779 (quotes pp. 37879).

Lincoln paused..."loftier motives than any man": Ibid., pp. 37980.

a similar remark..."of good will": Entry for June 30, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 471.

"the great magician...financier of his century": Chicago Tribune, July 3, 1864.

"Mr. Chase is...Webster and Calhoun": NYTrib, July 1, 1864.

he received a telegram...reasons of health: David Tod to AL, June 30, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

"laid awake...public men": Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 182.

By morning...William Pitt Fessenden: Chittenden, Recollections of President Lincoln (1901 edn.), p. 381.

"First... of many radicals": "1 July 1864, Friday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 216.

Lincoln handed Hay..."at once to the Senate": AL, quoted in "1 July 1864, Friday," in ibid., p. 215.

Lincoln greeted Fessenden...would kill him: William Pitt Fessenden, quoted in Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, pp. 31516.