"If you decline...the nomination": AL, quoted in "1 July 1864, Friday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 216.
"Telegrams came pouring...the most miserable": William Pitt Fessenden to his cousin, quoted in Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, p. 320.
"Very well...save your country": EMS, quoted in ibid., p. 321.
As he was driven..."danger to the country": William Pitt Fessenden to Justice Tenney, quoted in ibid., pp. 31718.
"He is a man...personal integrity": Chicago Tribune, July 2, 1864.
"He is honest...Republican Senators": EBL to SPL, July 2, 1864, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 398.
"I am the most popular man in my country": William Pitt Fessenden, quoted in Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, p. 326.
"So my official life closes": Entry for June 30, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 471.
the oppressive heat of Washington..."are wilting": Entry for July 31, 1864, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 392.
"laid broad foundations"...was still unfinished: Entry for June 30, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 471.
Blair and Bates called..."as a blessing": Entry for June 30, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, pp. 6263 (quote p. 63).
"the courage and candor to admit his errors": Entry for March 23, 1864, ibid., p. 545.
"his jokes are...dest.i.tute of wit": Entry for March 22, 1864, ibid., p. 545.
"a vague feeling...to be cordial": Entry for June 30, 1864, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 381.
"dropped off...every body else": FPB to FB, July 4, 1864, quoted in Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, p. 271.
Seward, unlike..."first day of the Administration": WHS to FAS, [July] 2, 1864, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18611872, p. 230.
he noted sadly..."since my resignation": Entry for July 13, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 479.
If Chase believed...he was mistaken: SPC to EMS, June 30, 1864, in Warden, Private Life and Public Services, p. 618.
Chase searched for reasons..."hostile to me": Entry for July 4, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 476.
"The root...a joke out of this war": SPC to Whitelaw Reid, quoted in Albert Bushnell Hart, Salmon P. Chase. American Statesmen Series (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1899), p. 318.
To Kate..."cannot finish what I began": SPC to KCS, July 3, 1864, reel 34, Chase Papers.
whose marriage to William..."the balance of power": Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague, p. 78.
"Can it be...even with far less material wealth": Entry for November 4, 1868, KCS diary, Sprague Papers (quotes); Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague, pp. 74, 8485.
occasionally loathing..."learned to submit": Entry for November 11, 1868, KCS diary, Sprague Papers.
Chase witnessed a fight...her first child: Entry for September 9, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 501 (quote); Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, pp. 13536, 144.
The Wade-Davis bill: H. R. 244, 38th Cong., 1st sess. ("Wade-Davis Bill"), in The Radical Republicans and Reconstruction, 18611870, ed. Harold Hyman. American Heritage Series (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967), pp. 12834.
In a written proclamation...single, inflexible system: AL, "Proclamation Concerning Reconstruction," July 8, 1864, in CW, VII, p. 433.
he likened the Wade-Davis..."fit the bedstead": Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln"s Time, pp. 15657.
Lincoln understood..."fixed within myself": "4 July 1864, Monday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, pp. 21819.
Wade and Davis published...manifesto against him: "The Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 5, 1864," in The Radical Republicans and Reconstruction, 18611870, ed. Hyman, pp. 13747.
He was not surprised by..."that can befall a man": Brooks, Washington, D.C. in Lincoln"s Time, p. 156.
The rumors alarmed...eager to get started: EBL to SPL, July 6, 1864, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 400.
In a letter to Frank..."a remote future": FPB to FB, July 4, 1864, quoted in Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, p. 272.
admonitions concerned Monty...the Pennsylvania countryside: EBL to SPL, July 6, 1864, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 400.
tried to convince her mother..."pulled to pieces": EBL to SPL, July 14, 1864, in ibid., p. 403.
Grant"s decision...General Lew Wallace: John Henry Cramer, Lincoln Under Enemy Fire: The Complete Account of His Experiences During Early"s Attack on Washington (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1948), pp. 28.
Wallace understood...prepared itself for attack: Seward, Seward at Washington...18611872, p. 231.
"The battle lasted...superior numbers": Seward, 9th N.Y. Artillery speech, 1912, Seward Papers, NRU.
Will"s horse...have been captured: Seward, Seward at Washington...18611872, pp. 24445.
Seward spent a tense...he had not been captured: Letter to FAS, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18611872, p. 233 (quote); Lew Wallace to Henry W. Halleck, July 9, 1864, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. x.x.xVII, Part II, p. 145.
"G.o.d be praised for the safety of our boy": FAS to WHS, July 11, 1864, reel 114, Seward Papers.
"With the help...rejoining the forces": Seward, Seward at Washington...18611872, pp. 23132.
Falkland mansion..."top to bottom": Mr. Turton, quoted in National Intelligencer, reprinted from the Daily Morning Chronicle, Washington, D.C., July 16, 1864.
"blackened ruin": EBL to SPL, August 5, 1864, quoted in note 2 of EBL to SPL, July 16, 1864, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 405.
the soldiers scattered papers..."great frolic" on the lawn: EBL to SPL, July 16 and 31, [1864], in ibid., pp. 404, 413 (quotes).
"perfect saturnalia": EBL to SPL, July 31, [1864], in ibid., p. 413.
Breckinridge made them..."side of the Mts.": EBL to SPL, July 16 and 31, [1864], in ibid., pp. 404, 413 (quote).
He explained..."refuge & of rest": EBL to SPL, July 16, [1864], in ibid., p. 405.
"made more fuss...came back to us": EBL to SPL, July 16, [1864], in ibid., pp. 40405.
In his initial panic...during the crisis: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, pp. 31920.