Team Of Rivals Part 61

ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES:AL

Abraham LincolnCS

Charles SumnerEB

Edward BatesEBL

Elizabeth Blair LeeEMS

Edwin M. StantonFAS

Frances A. (Miller) SewardFB

Francis Preston ("Frank") Blair, Jr.FPB

Francis Preston Blair, Sr.FS

Frances A. ("f.a.n.n.y") SewardFWS

Frederick W. SewardGBM

George B. McClellanGW

Gideon WellesJGN

John G. NicolayJH

John HayJWW

Jesse W. WeikKCS

Kate Chase SpragueLW

Lazette M. (Miller) WordenMB

Montgomery BlairMEM

Mary Ellen McClellanMTL

Mary Todd LincolnSPC

Salmon P. ChaseSPL

Samuel Phillips LeeTB

Therena BatesTW

Thurlow WeedUSG

Ulysses S. GrantWHH

William H. HerndonWHS

William H. SewardCW

Collected Works of Abraham LincolnHI

Herndon's Informants NR National Republican, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.NYH

New York Herald, New York, N.Y.NYT

New York Times, New York, N.Y.NYTrib

New York Tribune, New York, N.Y.OR

The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (128 vols., Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 18801901)Star

Evening Star, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.Chase Papers

The Salmon P. Chase Papers: Microfilm Edition, ed. John Niven (Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1987)Lincoln Papers

Papers of Abraham Lincoln, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress. Available at Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress, Ma.n.u.script Division (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.: American Memory Project, [200001]), http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alhome.htmlNicolay Papers

Papers of John G. Nicolay, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of CongressSeward Papers

The Papers of William H. Seward (Woodbridge, Conn.: Research Publications, 1983Welles Papers

Papers of Gideon Welles, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of CongressNOTE TO READERS: When quoting from primary doc.u.ments, original spelling and grammar have been kept.

INTRODUCTION

"there is little...of Abraham Lincoln": Frederick Dougla.s.s, "Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln," April 14, 1876, in Frederick Dougla.s.s: Selected Speeches and Writings, ed. Philip S. Foner, abridged by Yuval Taylor (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1999), pp. 62021.

"comparatively unknown...such anxious times": Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Abraham Lincoln," in Miscellanies (Cambridge, Ma.s.s.: Riverside Press, 1904), pp. 33031.

"very near...perfect man": EB, quoted in F. B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1866), p. 68.

"field of glory": AL, "Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois," January 27, 1838, in CW, I, p. 113.

"a new birth of freedom": AL, "Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863; Edward Everett Copy," in CW, VII, p. 21.

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