Team Of Rivals Part 158

"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 G.o.d'": Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, pp. 17576.

"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, 14950 (quotes).

exposed her...could not curtail: "Mary Todd Lincoln's Unethical Conduct as First Lady," appendix 2, in Hay, At Lincoln's Side, pp. 185205.

"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..."enc.u.mbered": 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. 38889.

"pa.s.sing time and acc.u.mulating 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. 31617 (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 Const.i.tutional View of the Late War Between the States, Vol. II (Philadelphia: National Publis.h.i.+ng 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. 60407; 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, 18651873, ed. John Niven (Kent, Ohio, and London, England: Kent State University Press, 1998), pp. 67.

"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. 6062.

Freedmen's Bureau...the South: Foner, Reconstruction, pp. 6869.

"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. 36364.

a.s.signed two..."procure those votes": AL, quoted in John B. Alley, in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1886 edn.), pp. 58586.

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 Was.h.i.+ngton, ed. Laas, p. 469.