Team Of Rivals Part 126

The Braddock House...old chairs and desks: Freeman, The Boys in White, p. 37.

the Patent Office...transformed into a hospital ward: NR, June 27 and September 2, 1862.

"a curious scene...pavement under foot": Walt Whitman, quoted in NYT, February 26, 1863.

the Methodist Episcopal Church on 20th Street: NR, June 18, 1862.

covering pews...laboratory and kitchen: NR, June 23, 1862.

more than three thousand patients: NR, April 11, 1862.

baskets of fruit...pillows of wounded men: NYTrib, August 13, 1862 (quote); Ellet, The Court Circles of the Republic, p. 526; AL to Hiram P. Barney, August 16, 1862, in CW, V, pp. 37778.

One wounded soldier...signature: MTL to "Mrs. Agen," August 10, 1864, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 179.

of "commanding stature...for it so eagerly": Alcott, Hospital Sketches, pp. 8992, 99100, 103, 104.

"singularly cool...(full of maggots)": Walt Whitman to Louisa Whitman, October 6, 1863, in Whitman, The Wound Dresser, pp. 12324.

"heap of feet"...hospital grounds: Walt Whitman to Louisa Whitman, December 29, 1862, in ibid., p. 48.

she found it difficult..."wounded occupant": Alcott, Hospital Sketches, p. 59.

"Death itself...such a relief": Walt Whitman to Louisa Whitman, August 25, 1863, in Whitman, The Wound Dresser, p. 104.

"was so blackened"...eventually recovered: Amanda Stearns to her sister, May 14, 1863, reprinted in Amanda Akin Stearns, The Lady Nurse of Ward E (New York: Baker & Taylor Co., 1909), pp. 2526 (quote p. 25).

Another youth..."on the Judgment Day": Alcott, Hospital Sketches, pp. 6263 (quote p. 63).

"If she were worldly wise...many journals": Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, p. 48.

"While her sister-women...the White House": Ames, Ten Years in Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 237.

Mary continued...work discreetly: Chicago Tribune, July 4, 1872; Mary Elizabeth Ma.s.sey, Bonnet Brigades (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966), p. 44.

"our ever-bountiful benefactress & friend": NR, December 27, 1861.

"an angel of mercy": NR, June 27, 1862.

Lincoln had asked the legislature: AL, "Message to Congress," March 6, 1862, in CW, V, pp. 14446.

"less than one half-day's"...border states combined: AL to James A. McDougall, March 14, 1862, in CW, V, p. 160.

"to surrender...the Union dissolved": NYT, July 13, 1862.

If the rebels...lose heart: AL, "Message to Congress," March 6, 1862, in CW, V, p. 145.

"emanc.i.p.ation in any form...the Border States": Editors' note on majority reply to AL, "Appeal to Border State Representatives to Favor Compensated Emanc.i.p.ation," July 12, 1862, in ibid., p. 319 n1.

"never doubted...to abolish slavery": AL, "Message to Congress," April 16, 1862, in ibid., p. 192.

"I trust I am not...seem like a dream": Frederick Dougla.s.s to CS, April 8, 1862, reel 25, Sumner Papers.

As slaves in the District..."when they wished": Smith, Francis Preston Blair, p. 354.

"all but one...quarters": EBL to SPL, April 19, 1862, in Wartime Was.h.i.+ngton, ed. Laas, p. 130.

Henry...the rest of his life: Henry, quoted in Smith, Francis Preston Blair, p. 354.

Nanny..."children are free": EBL to SPL, April 19, 1862, in Wartime Was.h.i.+ngton, ed. Laas, p. 130.

a new confiscation bill: "An Act to suppress Insurrection, to punish Treason and Rebellion, to seize and confiscate the Property of Rebels, and for other Purposes," July 17, 1862, in Statutes at Large, Treaties, and Proclamations of the United States of America, Vol. 12 (Boston, 1863), pp. 58992, available through "Chronology of Emanc.i.p.ation During the Civil War," Freedmen and Southern Society Project, University of Maryland, College Park, www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/conact2.htm (accessed April 2004).

"It was...a dead letter from the start": "Confiscation Act of July 17, 1862," in Mark E. Neely, Jr., The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982), p. 68.

a "disturbing influence...to break anew": CS, quoted in James G. Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield, Vol. I (Norwich, Conn.: Henry Bill Publis.h.i.+ng Co., 1884), p. 374.

"our friends...take it at its flood": Entry for July 14, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 558.

"will be an end...errors of policy": Henry Cooke to Jay Cooke, July 16, 1862, in Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, Jay Cooke: Financier of the Civil War (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1907), p. 199.

"looked weary...in his voice": Entry for July 15, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 560.

the president traveled...final days of the term: JGN to TB, July 18, 1862, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

an extraordinarily productive session: See Leonard P. Curry, Blueprint for Modern America: Nonmilitary Legislation of the First Civil War Congress (Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968), pp. 10136, 14748, 17997, 24452.

"he had lately begun...d'etat for our Congress": Entry for July 21, 1862, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 348.

"I ask Congress...lost one advocate": WHS to FAS, July 12, 1862, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, pp. 11516.

The debates had grown..."part in them": Field, Memories of Many Men, pp. 26465.

"a moral...political wrong": AL, "Sixth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, at Quincy, Illinois," October 13, 1858, in CW, III, p. 254.

uses to which slaves were put by the Confederacy: Welles, "History of Emanc.i.p.ation," Galaxy (1872), pp. 843, 844; Hendrick, Lincoln's War Cabinet, p. 355.

emanc.i.p.ation could be considered a military necessity: Welles, "History of Emanc.i.p.ation," Galaxy (1872), p. 850.

the funeral of Stanton's infant son: Star, July 11, 1862.

"emanc.i.p.ating the slaves...justifiable": Entry for c. July 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 7071.

when messengers...by the diplomats in attendance: Entry for July 21, 1862, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 348.

all members save the postmaster: Welles, "History of Emanc.i.p.ation," Galaxy (1872), p. 844.

books in the library: MTL to Benjamin B. French, July 26, [1862], in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 12930; Seale, The President's House, Vol. I, pp. 29192, 380.