Team Of Rivals Part 167

At 1 a.m., Stanton telegraphed..."best detectives": EMS to John H. Kennedy, April 15, 1865, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XLVI, Part III, p. 783.

"The wound is mortal...is now dying": EMS to John A. Dix, April 15, 1865, 1:30 a.m., OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XLVI, Part III, p. 780.

"The President continues...shot the President": Ibid., 4:10 a.m., p. 781.

Shortly after dawn..."death-struggle had begun": Entry for April 14, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 288.

"As she entered"...sofa in the parlor: Taft, "Abraham Lincoln's Last Hours," Century 45 (1893), p. 635.

"the town clocks...be again resumed": Field, Memories of Many Men, p. 325.

"Let us pray"...everyone present knelt: Leale to Butler, July 20, 1867, container 43, Butler Papers, DLC.

At 7:22 a.m.... "belongs to the ages": Donald, Lincoln, p. 599. As David Donald notes, witnesses thought theyheard several variations of Stanton's utterance, including "He belongs to the ages now," "He now belongs to the Ages," and "He is a man for the ages." Donald, Lincoln, p. 686, endnote for p. 599 beginning "to the ages."

"Oh, why did you not...he was dying": NYH, April 16, 1865.

moans could be heard...taken to her carriage: Taft, "Abraham Lincoln's Last Hours," Century 45 (1893), p. 636; Field, Memories of Many Men, p. 326.

Stanton's "coolness"...streamed down his cheeks: NYH, April 16, 1865.

"Stanton's grief...break down and weep bitterly": Porter, Campaigning with Grant, p. 501.

"Not everyone knows...his honor and yours": JH to EMS, July 26, 1865, in Hay, At Lincoln's Side, p. 106.

"Is he dead?...entire face was distorted": Field, Memories of Many Men, p. 327.

walked to Seward's house...Blair and his father: Entry for April 15, 1865, Chase Papers, Vol. I, pp. 529, 530.

"with tearful eyes...of our side": EBL to SPL, April 15, 1865, in Wartime Was.h.i.+ngton, ed. Laas, p. 495.

Richmond Whig... "South has descended": Richmond Whig, quoted in Robert S. Harper, Lincoln and the Press (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1951), p. 360.

St. Louis...comfortable study: Entry for January 27, 1865, The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 443.

"the astounding news...country and for myself": Entry for April 15, 1865, in ibid., p. 473.

News of Lincoln's death..."sinking into his mind": Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, pp. 45859 (quotes p. 459).

"The history of governments...confidence and regard": "Hay's Reminiscences of the Civil War," in Hay, At Lincoln's Side, pp. 12829.

Flags remained..."the farewell march": Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, pp. 271 (quote), 273.

nearly two hundred thousand Union soldiers: Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, p. 185.

"Never in the history...shrill call of bugles": Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, pp. 27274.

"magnificent and imposing spectacle": Entry for May 19, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 310.

"You see in these...half a dozen presidents": EMS, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 288.

"more and more dim...found in every family": AL, "Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois," January 27, 1838, in CW, I, p. 115.

"a new birth of freedom...perish from the earth": AL, "Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg," final text, November 19, 1863, in CW, VII, p. 23.

second day belonged..."with our swords": Sherman, Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, p. 731.

All of Was.h.i.+ngton..."All felt this": Entry for April 19, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 310.

"a Cabinet which should...than one counsellor": WHS, "The President and His Cabinet," October 20, 1865, Works of William H. Seward, Vol. V, p. 527.

"I have no doubt...greatest man I ever knew": Tribute by General Grant, in Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 7.

"I have more than once...Nineteenth Century": Walt Whitman, "November Boughs," The Complete Prose Works of Walt Whitman, Vol. III (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, Knickerbocker Press, 1902), pp. 20607.

Leo Tolstoy..."light beams directly on us": Leo Tolstoy, quoted in The World, New York, February 7, 1908.

"Every man is said...yet to be developed": AL, "Communication to the People of Sangamo County," March 9, 1832, in CW, I, p. 8.

"he had done nothing...that he had lived": AL, paraphrased in Joshua F. Speed to WHH, February 7, 1866, in HI, p. 197.

"conceived in Liberty...all men are created equal": AL, "Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863; Edward Everett Copy," in CW, VII, p. 21.

"With malice toward none; with charity for all": AL, "Second Inaugural Address," March 4, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 333.

EPILOGUE"night of horrors": Entries for April 14, 1865, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 529.

"vicarious suffering": FAS, in "Miscellaneous Fragments in Mrs. Seward's Handwriting," reel 197, Seward Papers.

"the largest...woman in America": New York Independent, undated, in Seward family sc.r.a.pbook, Seward House Foundation Historical a.s.sociation, Inc., Library, Auburn, N.Y.

f.a.n.n.y remained...tuberculosis: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 266.

Seward was inconsolable: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 417.

"Truly it may...mother and daughter": Was.h.i.+ngton Republican, undated, in Seward family sc.r.a.pbook, Seward House.

attempts to mediate...radicals in Congress: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 452.

"Seward's Folly": Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 278.

spent his last years traveling: Ibid., pp. 29091, 29294; NYT, October 11, 1872.

Jenny asked..."Love one another": Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 296; Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 508 (quote).

Thurlow Weed...wept openly: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 296.

Stanton's remaining...asked for his resignation: Pratt, Stanton, p. 452; Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 583.