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588 "at present": Wilson, John Wilkes Booth, pp. 5054; Tidwell, Come Retribution, p. 405.
588 if he wished: Benn Pitman, The a.s.sa.s.sination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators (facsimile ed.; New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1954), pp. 4445.
588 to the tyrant: Furtw.a.n.gler, a.s.sa.s.sin on Stage, argues that the theatrical tradition of tyrannicide helped shape Booth's actions.
588 "will ever make": William Hanchett, The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983), p. 37.
589 activities largely irrelevant: For a defense of Campbell, see Henry G. Connor, John Archibald Campbell: a.s.sociate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 18531861 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920), chap. 7.
589 "the reconstructed states": R. F. Fuller to Sumner, Apr. 13,1865, Sumner MSS, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
589 "Alas!" he grieved: Donald, Sumner, p. 215.
590 "not sustain him": Frank Abial Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton: The Autocrat of Rebellion, Emanc.i.p.ation, and Reconstruction (New York: Western W. Wilson, 1905), pp. 271272.
590 "governments as legal": Welles, "Lincoln and Johnson," Galaxy 13 (Apr. 1872): 524.
590 "government of Virginia": Charles H. Ambler, Francis H. Pierpont: Union War Governor of Virginia and Father of West Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937), p. 256.
590 "if he had": Welles, Diary, 2:280.
590 of his orders: One authority a.s.serts flatly: "Thus Lincoln broke faith with the Virginians." William M. Robinson, Jr., Justice in Grey: A History of the Judicial System of the Confederate States of America (Cambridge, Ma.s.s.: Harvard University Press, 1941), p. 593. For a more balanced view, which faults Lincoln for not initially making his intentions clear, see Randall, Lincoln the President, 4:355359.
590 "to their homes": CW, 8:406407.
590 in better spirits: Chase, Diary, p. 268.
591 "ever seen him": Moorfield Storey, "d.i.c.kens, Stanton, Sumner, and Storey," Atlantic Monthly 145 (Apr. 1930): 464.
591 "of the inhabitants": Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman, pp. 256257.
591 "before the war": CW, 8:410.
591 "for early reconstruction": Chase, Diary, p. 268.
591 "do it badly": Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman, p. 256.
591 bear further study: Welles, "Lincoln and Johnson," p. 526.
591 "any future Cabinet": Ibid., pp. 526527.
592 "could not partic.i.p.ate": Ibid., p. 526.
592 "an indefinite sh.o.r.e": Welles added the last four words of this sentence to his diary later. Welles, Diary, 2:282.
592 "most of yours": Ibid., p. 283.
593 signed more papers: For a careful, detailed chronicle of the President's activities, see Reck, A. Lincoln: His Last 24 Hours.
