"Suppose you...be left in it?": EMS, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18611872, p. 147.
Welles told Seward..."greatly pleased": Entry for December 20, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 200.
Monty Blair entered...Seward"s resignation: Seward, Seward at Washington...18611872, p. 147.
When Welles returned...hand in his own resignation: Entry for December 20, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 201.
Word had already leaked..."course of difficulties": Henry Cooke to Jay Cooke, December 20, 1862, in Oberholtzer, Jay Cooke, pp. 224, 226 (quotes p. 226).
"had been painfully...neither of you longer": Entry for December 20, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 20102.
Lincoln wrote a letter..."your Departments respectively": AL to WHS and SPC, December 20, 1862, in CW, VI, p. 12.
"Seward comforts...deems a necessity": Entry for December 23, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 205.
"Yes, Judge...end of my bag!": AL, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18611872, p. 148.
"I have cheerfully...to your command": WHS to AL, December 21, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
"come as soon as possible": Entry for December 22, 1862, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.
"Will you allow me...than in your cabinet": SPC to AL, December 20, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
When Chase received...return to the Treasury: SPC to AL, December 22, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
"Seward was feeling...had been for weeks": Entry for December 23, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 205.
Seward magnanimously invited...Christmas Eve: SPC to FWS, December 24, 1862, reel 24, Chase Papers.
"a triumph over...drive him out": JGN to TB, December 23, 1862, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
Chase declined..."his hospitality": SPC to FWS, December 24, 1862, reel 24, Chase Papers.
"she regretted"...exception of Monty Blair: EBL to SPL, January 14, [1863], in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 231.
a visit to a Georgetown spiritualist..."had success": Entry for January 1, 1863, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, pp. 60809.
"I do not now see...I put it through": "30 October 1863, Friday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 104.
CHAPTER 19: "FIRE IN THE REAR"
a "general air of doubt": NYT, December 27, 1862.
"Will Lincoln"s...n.o.body knows": Entry for December 30, 1862, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 284.
As Frederick Dougla.s.s...give up ground: Dougla.s.s" Monthly (October 1862).
The final proclamation..."upon this act": Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln"s Emanc.i.p.ation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), pp. 17881, 25460 (quotes p. 260); entry for December 31, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 21011.
On the morning...fitful sleep: Quarles, Lincoln and the Negro, p. 140; Guelzo, Lincoln"s Emanc.i.p.ation Proclamation, p. 181.
He then met with General Burnside...offered to resign: Conversations with Lincoln, ed. Charles M. Segal (1961; New Brunswick, N.J., and London: Transaction Publishers, 2002), pp. 23234 (quote p. 232); Donald, Lincoln, pp. 40911.
he would replace Burnside with "Fighting Joe" Hooker: Entry for January 25, 1863, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 165.
A West Point graduate...at Antietam: "Hooker, Joseph (18141879)," in Sifakis, Who Was Who in the Union, pp. 199200.
Seward returned...for correction: Guelzo, Lincoln"s Emanc.i.p.ation Proclamation, p. 181.
New Year"s reception..."tr.i.m.m.i.n.g on the waist": Entry for January 1, 1863, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.
"looking like a fairy queen": EBL to SPL, January 1, 1863, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 224.
"Oh how pretty she is": Entry for January 1, 1863, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.
the gates to the White House...shake the president"s hand: Noah Brooks, Mr. Lincoln"s Washington: Selections from the Writings of Noah Brooks, Civil War Correspondent, ed. P. J. Staudenraus (South Brunswick, N.J.: Thomas Yoseloff, 1967), pp. 5860.
"grievously altered...cavernous eyes": Ibid., p. 29.
"his blessed...People"s Levee": Ibid., p. 60.
"Oh Mr. French...remain until it ended": Benjamin B. French, quoted in Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 320.
At Chase"s mansion..."china, gla.s.s, and silver": Brooks, Mr. Lincoln"s Washington, pp. 6162.
"little, aristocratic"...years as a lawyer: Ibid., p. 176.
Stanton"s salary...Ellen"s dreams: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 392.
At 2 p.m.... soon joined him: Guelzo, Lincoln"s Emanc.i.p.ation Proclamation, p. 182.
he "took a pen"...put the pen down: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 269.
"I never...signing this paper": AL quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18611872, p. 151.
"If my name...soul is in it": Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 269.
"stiff and numb": Seward, Seward at Washington...18611872, p. 151.
"If my hand trembles..."He hesitated"": Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 269.
"slowly and carefully"...sent out to the press: Seward, Seward at Washington...18611872, p. 151.
"Has Lincoln played false to humanity?": Entry for January 1, 1863, in Adam Gurowski, Diary from November 18, 1862 to October 18, 1863. Vol. II. Burt Franklin: Research & Source Works #229 (New York, 1864; New York: Burt Franklin, 1968), p. 61.
At Tremont Temple...Anna d.i.c.kinson: Frederick Dougla.s.s, Life and Times of Frederick Dougla.s.s, Written by Himself (1893 edn.), reprinted in Frederick Dougla.s.s, Autobiographies. Library of America Series (New York: Literary Cla.s.sics of the United States, 1994) p. 790 (quote); Boston Journal, January 2, 1863; Boston Transcript, January 2, 1863.