"came down from...all who met him": Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 217, 218.
"plain and substantial...hero of Vicksburg": NYH, June 25, 1864.
Lincoln conversed..."three capital jokes": Sylva.n.u.s Cadwallader, Three Years with Grant: As Recalled by War Correspondent Sylva.n.u.s Cadwallader, ed. Benjamin P. Thomas (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956), p. 232.
Grant suggested a ride..."met him on all sides": Porter, Campaigning with Grant, p. 218 (quote); NR, June 24, 1864.
"a long and lingering look": NYH, June 25, 1864.
pa.s.sed a brigade..."spontaneous outburst": Cadwallader, Three Years with Grant, p. 233.
"and his voice...if he had inherited it": Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 22223.
General Grant took Lincoln aside..."but I will go in": USG, quoted in entry for June 26, 1864, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 673.
"sunburnt and...position and good spirits": "23 June 1864, Thursday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 210.
regular Friday cabinet meeting..."the General and army": Entry for June 24, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 58.
project his own renewed hope..."as a commander": NYTrib, June 25, 1864.
"of the condition...terms of confidence": Philadelphia Inquirer, June 25, 1864.
"Having hope...your goals": Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence (New York: Bantam Books, 1995), p. 87. Goleman quotes C. R. Snyder in the third quote.
"We are today...within a year": Brooks, Mr. Lincoln"s Washington, p. 343.
John Cisco...own presidential hopes: John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol. IX (New York: Century Co., 1917), p. 91.
Lincoln told Chase...for Maunsell Field: SPC to AL, June 27, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
Field was serving..."executive character": Chittenden, Recollections of President Lincoln (1901 edn.), pp. 371, 374.
Chase awoke the morning after...to the Ephesians: Entry for June 28, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, pp. 46566.
"Stand therefore...righteousness": Ephesians 6:14.
"I can not"...on another nominee: AL to SPC, June 28, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 41213.
Chase wrote an immediate request: SPC to AL, June 28, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
He telegraphed Cisco...three months: SPC to John J. Cisco, June 28, 1864, reel 34, Chase Papers; entry for June 28, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 467.
"The difficulty...open revolt": AL to SPC, June 28, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 41314.
He began his letter..."my resignation": John J. Cisco to SPC, June 28, 1864; SPC to AL, June 29, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
"I opened it...I did not long reflect": AL, quoted in Field, Memories of Many Men, pp. 30102.
"You have been acting...I will go": "30 June 1864, Thursday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 213.
"Your resignation...with the public service": AL to SPC, June 30, 1864, in CW, VII, p. 419.
Lincoln called John Hay...the opening prayer: "30 June 1864, Thursday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 212.
Lincoln"s penitent request...he was needed: Field, Memories of Many Men, p. 303.
After breakfast...it had been accepted: Chase Papers, Vol. I, pp. 46970 (quotes p. 470).
spoke of "mutual embarra.s.sment": AL to SPC, June 30, 1864, in CW, VII, p. 419.
"I had found...fitness of selection": Entry for June 30, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 470.
"his full armor of n.o.ble sentiments": Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. IX, p. 84.
"The Senators were struck"...vehement protest: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln"s Time, p. 119.
"Fessenden was frightened...was mad": AL, quoted in "30 June 1864, Thursday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 213.
Lincoln listened patiently..."meet each other": Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln"s Time, pp. 119120 (quotes p. 120).
Chase had declined to attend: Entry for June 24, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 58.
"unendurable...the last straw": Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln"s Time, pp. 120, 121.
"very nervous & cut up": "30 June 1864, Thursday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 214.
Chittenden was equally..."thoroughly miserable": AL, quoted in Chittenden, Recollections of President Lincoln (1901 edn.), pp. 37779 (quotes pp. 37879).
Lincoln paused..."loftier motives than any man": Ibid., pp. 37980.
a similar remark..."of good will": Entry for June 30, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 471.
"the great magician...financier of his century": Chicago Tribune, July 3, 1864.
"Mr. Chase is...Webster and Calhoun": NYTrib, July 1, 1864.
he received a telegram...reasons of health: David Tod to AL, June 30, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
"laid awake...public men": Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 182.
By morning...William Pitt Fessenden: Chittenden, Recollections of President Lincoln (1901 edn.), p. 381.
"First... of many radicals": "1 July 1864, Friday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 216.
Lincoln handed Hay..."at once to the Senate": AL, quoted in "1 July 1864, Friday," in ibid., p. 215.
Lincoln greeted Fessenden...would kill him: William Pitt Fessenden, quoted in Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, pp. 31516.