Team Of Rivals Part 67

"Oh if I had not...now she is gone": Entry for December 27, 1835, ibid., pp. 9798.

"the bar of G.o.d...an accusing spirit": Entry for December 28, 1835, ibid., p. 99.

a "second conversion": Stephen E. Maizlish, "Salmon P. Chase: The Roots of Ambition and the Origins of Reform," Journal of the Early Republic 18 (Spring 1998), p. 62.

death of daughter Catherine: Blue, Salmon P. Chase, p. 35; Warden, Private Life and Public Services, p. 286; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 72.

"one of the...desolation of my heart": SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, February 7, 1840, reel 5, Chase Papers.

marriage to Eliza; birth of Kate: Blue, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 2526; Warden, Private Life and Public Services, pp. 29091, 295, 296, 301, 302.

"I feel as if...we are desolate": SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, October 1, 1845, reel 6, Chase Papers.

Marriage to Belle; death of wife and daughter: Blue, Salmon P. Chase, p. 74; Warden, Private Life and Public Services, pp. 31112.

"What a vale...I rise & press on": SPC to CS, January 28, 1850, reel 8, Chase Papers (quote); Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 135.

"to go West and grow up with the country": William F. Switzler, "Lincoln's Attorney General: Edward Bates, One of Missouri's Greatest Citizens-His Career as a Lawyer, Farmer and Statesman," reprinted in Onward Bates, Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri (Chicago: P. F. Pettibone, 1914), p. 26.

His father, Thomas Fleming Bates: For general information on Bates's family and early years, see Cain, Lincoln's Attorney General, pp. 13, 5; "Bates, Edward," DAB, Vol. I, p. 48; James M. McPherson, "Bates, Edward," American National Biography, Vol. II, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, American Council of Learned Societies (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 329; Introduction, The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. xi; Bates, Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri, p. 22; "Death of Edward Bates," Missouri Republican, St. Louis, Mo., March 26, 1869; Elie Weeks, "Belmont," Goochland County Historical Society Magazine 12 (1980), pp. 3649; EB to C. I. Walker, February 10, 1859, reprinted in Collections of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan Together with Reports of County Pioneer Societies, Vol. VIII, 2nd edn. (1886; Lansing, Mich.: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1907), pp. 56364.

"as distinctly...Western Europe": Charles Gibson, The Autobiography of Charles Gibson, ed. E. R. Gibson, 1899, Charles Gibson Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo. [hereafter Gibson Papers, Mos.h.i.+].

English manorial life...monetary wealth: James Truslow Adams, America's Tragedy (New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934), pp. 8788.

"enjoyable living...and their manners": Bates, Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri, p. 20.

The flintlock musket..."helped to win": Ibid., p. 22.

lured by the vast potential...Louisiana Purchase: Wiebe, The Opening of American Society, pp. 13132.

Over the next three decades: James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988; New York: Ballantine Books, 1989), p. 42.

"too young...a buffalo!": "Lecture by Edward Bates," St. Louis Weekly Reveille, February 24, 1845, St. Louis History Collection, Mos.h.i.+.

"After years of family...burned brightly in him": Cain, Lincoln's Attorney General, p. 5.

pa.s.sed his bar examination...the rest of their family there: EB to Frederick Bates, September 29, 1817; October 13, 1817; June 15, 1818; July 19, 1818; Bates Papers, Mos.h.i.+; Cain, Lincoln's Attorney General, p. 7.

"The slaves sold...at $290!": EB to Frederick Bates, September 21, 1817, Bates Papers, Mos.h.i.+.

expected to realize..."full-handed": EB to Frederick Bates, September 29, 1817, Bates Papers, Mos.h.i.+.

death of his brother Tarleton..."by the delay": Cain, Lincoln's Attorney General, p. 6; EB to Frederick Bates, June 15, 1818, Bates Papers, Mos.h.i.+ (quote).

"In those days...in the country": Samuel T. Glover, "Addresses by the Members of the St. Louis Bar on the Death of Edward Bates," Minutes of the St. Louis Bar a.s.sociation (1869), Bates Papers, Mos.h.i.+.

"a lazy or squandering fellow": EB to Frederick Bates, July 19, 1818, Bates Papers, Mos.h.i.+.

if accompanied only by his family: EB to Frederick Bates, September 29, 1817, Bates Papers, Mos.h.i.+.

"in a tenth part of the time...my embarra.s.sment": EB to Frederick Bates, June 15, 1818, Bates Papers, Mos.h.i.+.

"Mother & Sister...occasioned you": EB to Frederick Bates, July 19, 1818, Bates Papers, Mos.h.i.+.

"friend and benefactor...wealth & influence": EB to Frederick Bates, October 13, 1817, Bates Papers, Mos.h.i.+.

introduced him to the leading figures: Cain, Lincoln's Attorney General, p. 4.

a partners.h.i.+p with Joshua Barton: Ibid., p. 7.

"more in the way...his own name": AL, "Autobiography Written for John L. Scripps," [c. June 1860], in CW, IV, p. 61 [hereafter "Scripps autobiography"].

Thomas had watched: A. H. Chapman statement, ante September 8, 1865, in HI, p. 95; Donald, Lincoln, p. 21.

"very narrow circ.u.mstances...without education": AL, "Scripps autobiography," in CW, IV, p. 61.

Nancy Hanks: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH, June 13, 1865, and John Hanks interview, May 25, 1865, in HI, pp. 5, 37; Benjamin P. Thomas, Abraham Lincoln: A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952), p. 6. On Nancy Hanks's ancestry, see Paul H. Verduin, "New Evidence Suggest Lincoln's Mother Born in Richmond County, Virginia, Giving Credibility to Planter-Grandfather Legend," Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine x.x.xVIII (December 1988), pp. 4, 35489.

Thomas in relentless poverty: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 5; Kenneth J. Winkle, The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln (Dallas: Taylor Trade Publis.h.i.+ng, 2001), p. 13.

"Why Scripps, it is...'annals of the poor'": John L. Scripps to WHH, June 24, 1865, in HI, p. 57.

"was a woman...a brilliant woman": Nathaniel Grigsby interview, September 12, 1865, in ibid., p. 113.

"read the good...benevolence as well": Dennis F. Hanks to WHH (interview), June 13, 1865, in ibid., p. 40.

"beyond all doubt an intellectual woman": John Hanks interview, [18651866], in ibid., p. 454.

"Remarkable" perception: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH, [December 1865?], in ibid., p. 149.

"very smart...naturally Strong minded": William Wood interview, September 15, 1865, in ibid., p. 124.

"All that I am...G.o.d bless her": AL, comment to WHH, quoted in Michael Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994), p. 42.

"milk sickness": Philip D. Jordan, "The Death of Nancy Hanks Lincoln," Indiana Magazine of History XL (June 1944), pp. 10310.

Thomas and Elizabeth Sparrow: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, pp. 1011.

"I am going away...return": Nancy Lincoln, quoted in Robert Bruce, "The Riddle of Death," in Gabor Boritt, ed., The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 132.

average life expectancy: Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution, p. 63.

"He restlessly looked...before his gaze": Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. II, p. 187.

had a uniquely shattering impact: Bruce, "The Riddle of Death," in The Lincoln Enigma, p. 132.

"a wild region": AL, "Autobiography written for Jesse W. Fell," December 20, 1859, in CW, III, p. 511.