"If things...my husband": MTL, quoted in George B. Lincoln to GW, April 25, 1874, quoted in "New Light on the Seward-Welles-Lincoln Controversy," Lincoln Lore 1718 (April 1981), p. 3.
"It makes me...skein of thread": MTL, quoted in Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes. Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House. The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers Series (New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1868; New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 131.
the long evenings Lincoln spent at Seward"s: Hendrick, Lincoln"s War Cabinet, p. 186.
"My friend...churchwarden!": Wilson, Intimate Memories of Lincoln, p. 422.
"a t.i.the...read for ever": Entry for October 12, 1861, in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 26.
"personal courage...the enemy is": Entry for October 10, 1861, in ibid., p. 25.
brought up the Chicago convention..."his life in his hand": Entry for October 17, 1861, in ibid., pp. 26, 27.
probably rekindled memories...on the circuit: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 188.
the fighting...in Missouri: See Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. IV, chapter 11, esp. pp. 20611; Thomas L. Snead, "The First Year of the War in Missouri," in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. I, Part I, Grant-Lee edition (New York: Century Co., 188788; Harrisburg, Penn.: Archive Society, 1991), pp. 26265.
Frank Blair...General Nathaniel Lyon: Snead, "The First Year of the War in Missouri," Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. I, Pt. 1, pp. 26468; Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 39; "Missouri for the Union," in Parrish, Frank Blair.
"thickly veiled"...revolvers: Snead, "The First Year of the War in Missouri," Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. I, Pt. 1, p. 265 (quote); see also Franklin A. d.i.c.k, "Memorandum of Matters in Missouri," Papers ofF. A. d.i.c.k, Miscellaneous Ma.n.u.scripts Collection, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress.
the "earnest solicitation": Entry for December 9, 1863, in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 123.
"He is just...eminently practical": "Editorial, 3 August 1861," in Hay, Lincoln"s Journalist, p. 84.
"There was...magical influence": Koerner, Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, Vol. II, p. 162.
"recklessness in expenditures": JGN, memorandum of September 17, 1861, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
Tales circulated...unwanted visitors: Ibid.; FB to Governor Dennison, September 19, 1861, quoted in Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, pp. 7980.
Fremont...had chosen to stay: Lorenzo Thomas to Simon Cameron, October 21, 1861, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. III, p. 543; Parrish, Frank Blair, p. 116.
General Lyon"s death...devastating defeat: Entries for August 10 and September 20, 1861, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, pp. 107, 120.
Fremont issued a bold proclamation..."declared freemen": Proclamation of John C. Fremont, August 30, 1861, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. III, pp. 46667 (quotes p. 467).
far exceeded...their future status: Joseph Holt to AL, September 12, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
Lincoln learned of...a private letter to Fremont: Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. IV, pp. 416, 41718.
unilaterally recast...war against slavery: Benjamin Quarles, Lincoln and the Negro (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962; repr. New York: Da Capo Press, 1990), p. 71.
has "anxiety...so as to conform": AL to John C. Fremont, September 2, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 506.
"Fremont"s proclamation...future condition": AL to Orville H. Browning, September 22, 1861, in ibid., p. 531.
"The trouble...only to himself": Carpenter, "A Day with Governor Seward," Seward Papers.
"unable to eat...on such a principle": Joshua Speed to AL, September 3, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
"I know that you...to the very foundations": FB to MB, September 1, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
he himself had reluctantly concluded: Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, pp. 4849.
"but being...public interests": MB to AL, September 4, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
General Meigs and Montgomery Blair..."look into the affair": JGN, memorandum of September 17, 1861, container 2, Nicolay Papers; entry for September 10 to September 18, 1861, extracts from diary of Montgomery C. Meigs, container 13, Nicolay Papers.
Jessie...arrived in Washington: "The Lincoln Interview: Excerpt from "Great Events,"" in The Letters of Jessie Benton Fremont, ed. Pamela Herr and Mary Lee Spence (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993), pp. 26465.
"If I were...I did not do so": John C. Fremont to AL, September 8, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
"You are quite a female politician": "The Lincoln Interview," Letters of Jessie Benton Fremont, p. 266.
"taxed me...for himself": Entry for December 9, 1863, in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 123.
she asked Lincoln...when he was ready: "The Lincoln Interview," Letters of Jessie Benton Fremont, p. 266.
Lincoln wrote..."an open order": AL to John C. Fremont, September 11, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 51718.
he sent it to be mailed: Jessie Benton Fremont to AL, September 12, 1861, in Letters of Jessie Benton Fremont, p. 271 n1.
"He had always...now very angry": "The Lincoln Interview," Letters of Jessie Benton Fremont, p. 267.
the elder Blair revealed: Jessie B. Fremont to AL, September 12, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
"examine into that Department": AL to Jessie B. Fremont, September 12, 1861, draft copy, Lincoln Papers.
"threatened the old man...from responsibility": MB to W. O. Barlett, September 26, 1861, copy, reel 21, Blair Family Papers, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress [hereafter Blair Family Papers, DLC].
"most incautious": EBL to SPL, October 7, 1861, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 83.
"The rebels...for defence": Entry for September 10 to September 18, 1861, extracts from diary of Montgomery C. Meigs, container 13, Nicolay Papers.
"a full & plain...should be consulted": MB to AL, September 14, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
Rumors circulated: Entry for December 28, 1861, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 217; EBL to SPL, October 19, 1861, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, pp. 88, 90 n2.
"with a view...removal": NYT, September 17, 1861.
"unbecoming...gentleman": Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, p. 78.
Monty interceded: MB to John C. Fremont, September 20, 1861, copy, reel 21, Blair Family Papers, DLC.
the trial, which would never take place: MB to FPB, October 1, 1861, box 7, folder 6, Blair-Lee Papers, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library [hereafter Blair-Lee Papers, NjP-SC].
"Were you not...proclamation?": FAS to LW, [c. September 4, 1861], quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 612.