"I am here...states-1600": AL to EMS, March 25, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 374.
Stanton replied...""further off"": EMS to AL, March 25, 1865, Lincoln Papers.
Lincoln"s presence..."of their triumphs": NYH, March 28, 1865.
Lincoln seemed..."anecdotes": Porter, Campaigning with Grant, p. 407.
"Mr. President...old grudge against England to stand": USG and AL, quoted in Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 4089.
Porter"s naval flotilla..."Come along!": Barnes, "With Lincoln from Washington to Richmond in 1865," Part 1, Appleton"s (1907), pp. 52223.
ambulance carrying..."ark of refuge": Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 41314 (quotes p. 414).
saw the attractive..."shocked and horrified": Adam Badeau, quoted in Foote, The Civil War, Vol. III, p. 847.
"was always that...impressed by it": John S. Barnes, "With Lincoln from Washington to Richmond in 1865," Part II, Appleton"s (1907), p. 743.
had no desire...irrational outburst: Randall, Mary Lincoln, pp. 37274.
Sherman was on his way...final push: William T. Sherman to Isaac N. Arnold, November 28, 1872, in Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 421.
"their hands locked"...River Queen: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 41718, 419.
greeted Sherman...depend upon the actions: William T. Sherman to Isaac N. Arnold, November 28, 1872, in Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 42122.
long talk with Lincoln..."their shops": Sherman, Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, p. 682.
"Let them have...to the laws": AL, quoted in David D. Porter, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1886), p. 314.
privately wished..."goodness, than any other": Sherman, Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, pp. 68283.
walked to the railroad..."bless you all!": AL, quoted in Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 42526.
"I think...the wisest course": Entry for March 30, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 269.
"We presume...palpable to be doubted": NYTrib, March 30, 1865.
"change of air & rest": MTL to CS, March 23, 1865, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 209.
"to escape the...pressure of visitors": Philadelphia Inquirer, March 24, 1865.
underscore his directive..."own hands": EMS to USG, March 3, 1865, CW, VIII, pp. 33031.
"I begin to feel...little had been done": AL to EMS, March 30, 1865, ibid., p. 377.
"I hope you will...All well here": EMS to AL, March 31, 1865, ibid., p. 378 n1.
accompanied Mary...was well: Entry for April 1, 1865, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 324; Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 374.
"overwhelmingly charming...astounding person": Carl Schurz to his wife, April 2, 1865, in Schurz, Intimate Letters of Carl Schurz, 18411869, pp. 32627.
"the flash of the cannon...in his that night": Through Five Administrations: Reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook, Body-Guard to President Lincoln, ed. Margarita Spalding Gerry (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1910), p. 47.
broken through Petersburg"s...and Richmond: Foote, The Civil War, Vol. III, pp. 87680.
Lincoln received..."12,000 prisoners": AL to MTL, April 2, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 384.
Lincoln had moved..."a foot sideways": AL, quoted in Porter, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War, pp. 28485.
"a comfortable...yard in front": Porter, Campaigning with Grant, p. 449.
battlefields, littered..."lines of sadness": Through Five Administrations, ed. Gerry, p. 48.
"dismounted in the street"...strolled by: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 450, 451.
Grant surmised..."and cut him off": Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, p. 559.
back at City Point..."nightmare is gone": AL, quoted in Porter, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War, p. 294.
in his customary pew..."retreating that evening": Davis, Jefferson Davis, p. 603; Jefferson Davis to Varina Davis, quoted in Robert McElroy, Jefferson Davis: The Unreal and the Real (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1937; New York: Smithmark, 1995), p. 454 (quote).
"Thereupon...all eyes in the house": NYTrib, April 8, 1865.
Summoning his cabinet...west to Danville: Davis, Jefferson Davis, p. 604.
small fire..."three-quarters of a mile": Charles A. Dana to EMS, April 6, 1865, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XLVI, Part III, p. 594.
All the public buildings...were destroyed: NYTrib, April 8, 1865.
leaving only...the Spotswood Hotel: Charles A. Dana to EMS, April 6, 1865, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XLVI, Part III, p. 594.
"Here is...Richmond has fallen": Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, pp. 36061.
"spread by a thousand mouths": Star, April 3, 1865.
"almost by magic...fullness of their joy": Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln"s Time, p. 219.
"wept as children...vows of friendship": NYH, April 4, 1865.
crowd called for Stanton..."his emotion": Star, February 15, 1896.
"grat.i.tude to Almighty...with their blood": EMS, quoted in Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln"s Time, p. 220.
"so overcome by emotion...speak continuously": Ibid.
Seward..."Secretary of War as this": WHS, quoted in ibid., p. 221.
crowd erupted..."loud and l.u.s.ty" cheers: NR, April 3, 1865.