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399 "the traitoress Mrs. Lincoln": H. Finch to Zachariah Chandler, Sept. 10, 1862, Chandler MSS, LC.
399 "a new administration": George P. Morgan to W. H. Seward, Oct. 22, 1862, Seward MSS, UR.
399 "shape of cabinet ministers": Grimes to Lyman Trumbull, Oct. 6, 1862, Trumbull MSS, LC.
400 "corner with the President": Welles, Diary, 1:124, 136; 2:58.
400 their legs on: George Bemis, Diary, Nov. 15, 1862, Ma.s.sachusetts Historical Society.
400 "as critics only": David Davis to Leonard Swett, Nov. 26, 1862, Davis MSS, ISHL.
400 "United States Navy": P. M. Zall, ed., Abe Lincoln Laughing (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), p. 78.
401 "over-borne their patriotism": Galloway to AL, Sept. 4, 1862, Lincoln MSS, LC.
401 "Head to the War Dept.": Montgomery Blair to Francis P. Blair, Jr., Sept. 17, 1862, Blair Family MSS, LC.
401 "the Silurian era": Hollister, Colfax, p. 200.
401 "Uncle Abe's nose": Ibid.
401 "be immediately accepted": W. H. Seward to AL, Dec. 18, 1862, Seward MSS, UR.
401 "What does this mean?": Frederick W. Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton (New York: Derby & Miller, 1891), p. 146.
401 extraordinary caucus: The fullest account of this caucus meeting is in Francis Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co, 1907), 1:231236, but there are further details in Browning's Diary, 1:596598.
402 "on my account": Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 146.
402 outcome of the Republican caucus: Fessenden, Fessenden, 1:236238, offers a full account of these meetings, and Browning's Diary, 1:598599, adds details.
402 "conclusions reached": Chase to Chandler, Sept. 20; 1862, Chandler MSS, LC.
403 "a ray of hope": Browning, Diary, 1:600601.
403 "his usual urbanity": Again the fullest account of this conference is in Fessenden, Fessenden, 1:240243.
403 read resolutions: A copy of these resolutions, misdated 1864, is in the Lincoln MSS (#3973234), LC.
403 "around the Administration": Nevins, War for the Union, 2:355; Hannibal Hamlin to Ellen Hamlin, Dec. 19, 1862, Hamlin MSS, microfilm, Columbia University.
404 "a free talk": Bates, Diary, p. 269.
404 "sufficient consultation": The fullest accounts of this meeting are in Fessenden, Fessenden, 1:243248; Bates, Diary, pp. 269270; and Welles, Diary, 1:196198.
405 "this subject now": Welles, Diary, 1:201202, gives a full account of this interview.
405 "end of my bag!": Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 148.
