"mendacious slanders": Thomas Heaton to SPC, April 29, 1864, reel 33, Chase Papers.
"violent and injudicious...with discretion": Entry for April 28, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 20.
told about the speech..."approval of the President": Riddle, Recollection of War Times, pp. 267, 268.
He considered Frank Blair..."did while here": James A. Garfield to J. Harrison Rhodes, April 28, 1864, quoted in Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield, Vol. I, p. 376.
Chase told Riddle..."perfectly satisfied": Riddle, Recollection of War Times, pp. 268, 27076.
"in the midst...actual din of battle": Brooks, Mr. Lincoln"s Washington, p. 325.
the National Union Convention: Ibid., pp. 33233. According to Brooks, twenty-three states "were represented without contest," and the contested delegations of Missouri and Tennessee were allowed to vote. Unofficial representatives from Confederate states and the territories attended but were not included on the official roll.
David Davis..."no one is necessary": David Davis to AL, June 2, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
Horace Greeley..."so heavy investments": Horace Greeley, quoted in Conversations with Lincoln, ed. Segal, pp. 32021.
"popular instinct...the popular will": William Dennison, et al., to AL, June 14, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
"the country at large...but Lincoln"s": Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln"s Time, p. 140.
gathered in Cleveland"s: Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, pp. 17780.
with a platform..."among the soldiers": Resolutions of the "Radical Democracy" party platform, quoted in NYT, June 1, 1864.
in the telegraph office..."four hundred men": Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, pp. 19495 (quote p. 195).
"renomination...the odd bits of gossip": Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln"s Time, p. 141.
was initially confronted..."short-haired women": Clark E. Carr, quoted in Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, p. 192.
the radicals had tacitly...unanimous: Ibid., pp. 195, 196.
the tumultuous applause..."defense of their country": "Platform of the Union National Convention," quoted in note 1 of AL, "Reply to the Committee Notifying Lincoln of His Renomination," June 9, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 38182.
"The enthusiasm...Lincoln was spoken": Brooks, Mr. Lincoln"s Washington, p. 335.
"a purge of any"...platform in full: Sixth plank of Union Convention platform, paraphrased in Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, p. 193.
"Harmony was...their kerchiefs": NR, June 9, 1864.
his towering presence...allotted to a single state: Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, pp. 199200; Brooks, Mr. Lincoln"s Washington, p. 326.
Weed had initially supported...the victorious Johnson: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 429.
"Stanton"s theory...the United States": Albert E. H. Johnson, quoted in New York Evening Post, July 13, 1891.
a clerk handed him a dispatch..."a President?": AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 163.
"the cart before the horse": NR, June 9, 1864.
The embarra.s.sed operator..."on my return": AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 163.
a committee appointed...of his nomination: Ibid., p. 166; entry for June 9, 1864, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 263.
did not a.s.sume...""when crossing streams"": AL, "Reply to Delegation from the National Union League," June 9, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 38384 (quote p. 384).
the Ohio delegation..."under his command": AL, "Response to a Serenade by the Ohio Delegation," June 9, 1864, in ibid., p. 384.
"nothing could defeat...like to die of": NYT, June 13, 1864.
CHAPTER 24: "ATLANTA IS OURS"
"Our troops have...but little": Entry for June 20, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, pp. 5455.
"The immense slaughter...sickens us all": Entry for June 2, 1864, ibid., p. 44.
"steady courage": Dispatch of June 6, 1864, in Stoddard, Dispatches from Lincoln"s White House, p. 234.
nearly lost his life at Cold Harbor: Janet W. Seward, "Personal Experiences of the Civil War," Seward Papers, NRU.
"I cannot yet...a holy cause": FAS to William H. Seward, Jr., May 20, 1864, reel 115, Seward Papers.
a "righteous" conflict...Mexican War: FAS to Augustus Seward, May 15, 1864, reel 115, Seward Papers.
"so nervous...all night with terror": EBL to SPL, June 19, [1864], in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 394.
"grave & anxious": EBL to SPL, June 21, 1864, in ibid., p. 395.
if Frank were taken..."are politically": EBL to SPL, June 22, 1864, in note 2 of EBL to SPL, June 21, 1864, in ibid., p. 396.
Welles was pained..."unfit for any labor": Entry for July 20, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 82.
the Great Central Fair in Philadelphia: William Thompson, "Sanitary Fairs of the Civil War," Civil War History 4 (March 1958), p. 60; NR, June 16, 1864.
"miracles as many...world of magic": Unknown observer, quoted in Thompson, "Sanitary Fairs of the Civil War," CWH 4 (1958), p. 60.
Lincoln, Mary, and Tad left: Entry for June 16, 1864, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 265.
they were escorted..."in Philadelphia": NR, June 16 and 17, 1864 (quote June 17).
"War, at the best...until that time": AL, "Speech at Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania," June 16, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 394, 395.
his own "intense anxiety...his post here": Entry for June 20, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 55.
Accompanied by Tad...of June 20: Entry for June 20, 1864, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 266.