"Reunion...in the minds of men": Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln"s Time, p. 228.
"there must be...robber bands and guerillas": Entry for April 13, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 279.
Lincoln had hoped..."their own work": Ibid.
"that to place...bring trouble with Congress": A. E. H. Johnson, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 272.
Stanton insisted..."absolutely null and void": EMS, quoted in ibid., p. 271.
Speed expressed his accord...with Lincoln: Williams, "James and Joshua Speed," p. 148.
confessed to Welles...tremendously: Gideon Welles, "Lincoln and Johnson," Galaxy 13 (April 1872), p. 524.
"doubted the policy...correct it if he had": Entry for April 13, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, pp. 27980.
telegram from Campbell...originally discussed: John A. Campbell to G.o.dfrey Weitzel, April 7, 1865, CW, VIII, pp. 40708 n1.
Lincoln walked over..."any specific acts": A. E. H. Johnson, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 272.
Lincoln stood up..."safe-return to their homes": AL to G.o.dfrey Weitzel, April 12, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 407 (quote); EMS, in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 271.
"that... was exactly right": Ibid.
"As we reached..."candles from my department"": Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant, pp. 153, 154.
received a delightful note..."drive with me!": MTL to Mary Jane Welles, July 11, 1865, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 257.
"We are rejoicing...glorious victories": MTL to James Gordon Bennett, [April 13, 1865], in ibid., p. 219.
"charming time...into a lad of sixteen": MTL to Abram Wakeman, April 13, [1865], in ibid., p. 220.
told Sumner...a visit with General Grant: MTL to CS, [April] 13, [1865], in ibid., p. 219.
"Well, my son...for a long while": Keckley, Behind the Scenes, pp. 13738.
Grant arrived...this event would be favorable: Entry for April 14, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, pp. 28283.
Stanton had drafted..."asked me to read it": EMS, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 301.
cabinet concurred...two separate states: Entry for April 14, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 281; Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. X (1890 edn.), p. 284.
"he thought it providential...harmony and union": Gideon Welles, "Lincoln and Johnson," Galaxy 13 (April 1872), p. 526.
"Didn"t our Chief...hair and whiskers": Speed to Barrett, September 16, 1885, Lincoln Collection, University of Chicago Library.
Lincoln seemed "more cheerful...at home and abroad": EMS to Charles Francis Adams, April 15, 1865, Telegrams Sent by the Secretary of War, Vol. 185186, December 27, 1864April 20, 1865, Telegrams Collected by the Office of the Secretary of War (Bound) (National Archives Microfilm Publication M-473, reel88), Records of the Office of the Secretary of War, RG 107, DNA.
"spoke very kindly...of the Confederacy": EMS to John A. Dix, April 15, 1865, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XLVI, Part III, p. 780.
"in marked degree...distinguished him": EMS to Charles Francis Adams, April 15, 1865 (M-473, reel 88), RG 107, DNA.
"a conspicuous...best to let him run": Dana, Recollection of the Civil War (1996 edn.), pp. 27374.
She had never seen...""been very miserable"": MTL to Francis B. Carpenter, November 15, [1865], in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 28485.
"he spoke of his old...riding the circuit": Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 42930.
hoped to travel...back home to Illinois: MTL interview, [September 1866], in HI, p. 359; Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 382.
group of old friends..."to dinner at once": Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II (1900 edn.), p. 235.
met with Noah Brooks..."its pleasures": AL, quoted in Hollister, Life of Schuyler Colfax, p. 252.
invited Colfax to join...that night: Ibid., p. 253.
"more hopeful...nearly so with gold": Brooks, Mr. Lincoln"s Washington, p. 443.
Republican had announced...box that night: NR, April 14, 1865.
Julia Grant...asked to be excused: Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, p. 592; Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant, p. 155.
The Stantons also declined: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 395.
"unwilling to encourage...poker over his arm": Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, p. 367.
"I suppose it"s time...would rather stay": AL, quoted in Hollister, Life of Schuyler Colfax, p. 253.
"It has been advertised...disappoint the people": AL, quoted in Through Five Administrations, p. 67.
Booth had devised a plan...a.s.sa.s.sinate the president: Kauffman, American Brutus, pp. 21215.
Booth believed he would be..."greater tyrant": Text of John Wilkes Booth diary, available through Abraham Lincoln research website, (accessed May 2005).
"Booth knew...martyr of Caesar": Kauffman, American Brutus, p. 212.
slept well the previous..."for the first time": Entry for April 14, 1865, in Johnson, "Sensitivity and Civil War," p. 876.
"listened with a look...the Cabinet meeting": Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, p. 258.
f.a.n.n.y"s reading...how much he enjoyed it: Entry for April 14, 1865, in Johnson, "Sensitivity and Civil War," p. 876.
Stanton had stopped by...serenading him: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 396.
"quiet arrangements"...opposite side of the bed: Entry for April 14, 1865, in Johnson, "Sensitivity and Civil War," p. 877.
"there seemed nothing unusual...presented himself": Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, p. 258.
Powell told the servant...but Fred refused: Verdi, "The a.s.sa.s.sination of the Sewards," The Republic (1873), p. 293.