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"long by n.o.ble deeds": SPC to EMS, January 9, 1848, reel 6, Chase Papers.
He accepted the post..."swamped at once": Wolcott, "Edwin M. Stanton," p. 154.
"Strange"...no one but Seward: Entry for January 13, 1862, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 226.
Welles heard..."Lincoln's confidence": Welles, "Narrative of Events," AHR (1926), p. 488; Hendrick, Lincoln's War Cabinet, p. 234 (quote).
Welles had never even met Stanton: Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 54.
Stanton's nomination...he would arrange a meeting: Francis Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1907), p. 230.
After a lengthy..."the negro question": William Pitt Fessenden, quoted in ibid., p. 231.
"Not only was...the real cause": WHS to home, January 15, 1862, in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 46.
the House Committee...rotten food: NYT, February 6, 1862.
"resolved to advise...unsound provisions": Frank Leslie's Ill.u.s.trated Newspaper, February 1, 1862.
"highly injurious to the public service": House resolution of April 30, 1862, quoted in AL, "To the Senate and House of Representatives," May 26, 1862, in CW, V, p. 243.
He wrote a long public letter..."was committed": AL, "To the Senate and House of Representatives," May 26, 1862, in ibid., p. 243.
"one of the most intimate...personal friends": Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. V, p. 130.
Most other men..."incur responsibility": Simon Cameron to AL, June 26, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
"an entirely new regime"...removed many of Cameron's people: NYT, January 23, 1862.
The day after..."she never did": EMS, quoted in Boston Daily Evening Transcript, January 7, 1870.
"As his carriage...to their stations": Charles F. Benjamin, "Recollections of Secretary Edwin M. Stanton," Century 33 (March 1887), p. 761.
"fluent without...and large-hearted": Entry for January 29, 1862, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 203.
"Persons at a distance...Congress speak it": NYT, January 25, 1862.
Instead of the traditional...an evening ball: Keckley, Behind the Scenes, pp. 9596; Frank Leslie's Ill.u.s.trated Newspaper, February 22, 1862.
some five hundred invitations: Frank Leslie's Ill.u.s.trated Newspaper, February 22, 1862.
"sought...their invitations": JGN to TB, February 6, 1862, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
Marine Band...midnight supper: Poore, Perley's Reminiscences, Vol. II, pp. 116, 119.
white satin gown..."in better style": Keckley, Behind the Scenes, p. 101.
"much attached...ever known": Entry for February 20, 1862, Taft diary.
built a cabin...troops on the sh.o.r.e: Entry for January 11, 1862, Taft diary (quote); Bayne, Tad Lincoln's Father, p. 177.
performances in the attic: Bayne, Tad Lincoln's Father, pp. 102, 106.
the pony...favorite pastime: Keckley, Behind the Scenes, p. 98; entries for January 26 and 27, 1862, Taft diary.
weather conditions in January: See January 1862 entries in Taft diary.
"There is a good deal...in the City": Entry for January 8, 1862, Taft diary.
"a dreadful eruption...expected to live": EMS to Oella Wright, March 24, 1862, in Wolcott, "Edwin M. Stanton," p. 155.
"burning fever...ulcerated" throat: FAS to LW, February 2, 1862, reel 119, Seward Papers.
Seward left Was.h.i.+ngton: WHS to AL, February 6, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
Nettie Chase...contracted scarlet fever: SPC to KCS, January 10, 1862, reel 18, Chase Papers.
Mary thought it best...been sent out: Keckley, Behind the Scenes, p. 100.
"the dean...medical community": Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 209.
"in no immediate...an early recovery": Keckley, Behind the Scenes, p. 100.
The carriages...received their guests: Poore, Perley's Reminiscences, Vol. II, pp. 11518; Frank Leslie's Ill.u.s.trated Newspaper, February 22, 1862.
"exquisite taste...a Grecian knot behind": Frank Leslie's Ill.u.s.trated Newspaper, February 22, 1862.
At midnight...including General McClellan: "Lincoln's First Levee," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 11 (October 1918), p. 389; Poore, Perley's Reminiscences, Vol. II, pp. 11920 (quote).
"The brilliance...the suffering boy": Keckley, Behind the Scenes, p. 102.
"Those who were here...others have not": JGN to TB, February 6, 1862, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
"frivolity, hilarity...within plain sight": Jeffersonian Democrat, reprinted in The Liberator, February 28, 1862.
"a brilliant spectacle": Star, February 6, 1862.
"our fair 'Republican Queen'...of beauty": Frank Leslie's Ill.u.s.trated Newspaper, February 22, 1862.
General Ulysses S. Grant: On Ulysess S. Grant's careers prior to the Civil War, see chapters 25 of William S. McFeely, Grant: A Biography (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1982).
Grant understood...an important mission: Ibid., pp. 9697.
"to take and hold Fort Henry": H. W. Halleck to USG, January 30, 1862, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. VII, p. 121.
Grant and Foote...Fort Donelson: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 396; Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. V, pp. 12022.
"Fort Henry is ours...on the 8th": USG to H. W. Halleck, February 6, 1862, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. VII, p. 124.
