dogs..."designed and posed": Doster, Lincoln and Episodes of the Civil War, p. 173.
description of Columbus in 1860: Howells, Years of My Youth, pp. 134, 169, 181 (quote); Francis Phelps Weisenburger, Columbus during the Civil War (n.p.: Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society, 1963), pp. 34.
new Capitol building: Henry Howe, Historical Collections of Ohio, Vol. I, Ohio Centennial Edition (Norwalk, Ohio: Laning Printing Co., 1896), p. 621 (quote); Writers" Program of the Works Projects Administration, comps., The Ohio Guide, sponsored by Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society (New York: Oxford University Press, 1940; 1948), pp. 251, 254.
contrast between Seward and Chase: Hendrick, Lincoln"s War Cabinet, p. 36; Johnson, "Sensitivity and Civil War," pp. 5859.
recoiled from all games of chance: SPC to KCS, September 15, 1854, reel 10, Chase Papers; Lloyd, "Home-Life of Salmon Portland Chase," Atlantic Monthly, pp. 529, 531.
"he seldom...without spoiling it": Lloyd, "Home-Life of Salmon Portland Chase," Atlantic Monthly, p. 536.
Kate"s education: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, p. 15; Ross, Proud Kate, pp. 1922, 34.
"In a few years...anything else": SPC to KCS, December 20, 1853, reel 9, Chase Papers.
absolutely essential: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, pp. 16, 18, 2122; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 20203.
"She did everything...another Mrs. Chase": Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, p. 22.
Chase treated his...younger daughter: Peac.o.c.k, Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century, p. 207.
Chase was actually more radical than Seward: Hart, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 423, 429.
"There may have been...ideas as he": Ibid., p. 434.
"In the long run...than did Chase": William E. Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, 18521856 (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 192.
"A very large body...spontaneous growth": SPC to Gamaliel Bailey, January 24, 1859, reel 12, Chase Papers.
"I arrived early...he should be President": Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. II, pp. 16972.
"desirable...our best men": SPC to Robert Hosea, March 18, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
"No man...more competent": Ohio State Journal, Columbus, Ohio, March 12, 1860.
"steady devotion...beyond the State": Ibid., May 21, 1860.
refused to engage in the practical methods: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 21417; Hart, Salmon P. Chase, p. 428.
"if the most cherished...could prevail": SPC to Edward S. Hamlin, June 12, 1856, reel 11, Chase Papers.
"Now is the time...topmost wave": Calvin Ellis Stowe to SPC, March 30, 1858, reel 12, Chase Papers.
"There is reason to hope": SPC to James A Briggs, from Wheeling, Va., May 8, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
Judge Edward Bates awaited: Marvin R. Cain, Lincoln"s Attorney General: Edward Bates of Missouri (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1965), p. 115.
Grape Hill: Entry of September 28, 1859, Orville H. Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning. Vol. I: 18501864, ed. Theodore Calvin Pease and James G. Randall. Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, Volume XX (Springfield, Ill.: Illinois State Historical Library, 1925), p. 380; Cain, Lincoln"s Attorney General, p. 59.
general information on Bates family: Introduction, The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, pp. xvxvi; Missouri Republican, St. Louis, Mo., March 26, 1869.
The judge"s orderly life: EB to Julia Bates, January 1, 1835; January 5, 1828; November 7, 1827; Edward Bates Papers, 17781872, mss 1 B3184a, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va. [hereafter Bates Papers, ViHi]; entry for April 9, 1860, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 120 (quote).
description of St. Louis: "Lecture of Edward Bates," St. Louis Weekly Reveille, February 24, 1845, typescript copy, St. Louis History Collection, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo. [hereafter MoSHi]; William C. Winter, The Civil War in St. Louis: A Guided Tour (St. Louis, Mo.: Missouri Historical Society, 1995), p. 3; James Neal Primm, Lion of the Valley: St. Louis, Missouri, 17641980, 3rd edn. (St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1998), pp. 192, 182 (quote).
"the quaintest looking...youth of twenty": Alban Jasper Conant, "A Visit to Washington in 186162," Metropolitan Magazine x.x.xIII (June 1910), p. 313.
descriptions of Bates: Hendrick, Lincoln"s War Cabinet, pp. 4647; Cain, Lincoln"s Attorney General, pp. 1, 64.
Lincoln noted the striking..."more than his head": AL quoted in Hendrick, Lincoln"s War Cabinet, p. 46.
"unaffected by...little bonnet": Conant, "A Visit to Washington in 186162," Metropolitan Magazine, p. 313.
"How happy is my lot!...so freely gives": Edward Bates diary, November 27, 1851, Edward Bates Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo. [hereafter Bates diary].
"a very domestic, home, man": Ibid., May 2, 1852.
speech at the River and Harbor Convention: "Bates, Edward," Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. I: Abbe-Brazer, ed. Allen Johnson (New York: Charles Scribner"s Sons, 1927; 1957), p. 48; James Shaw, "A Neglected Episode in the Life of Abraham Lincoln," Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society, no. 29 of the Illinois State Historical Library (1922), pp. 52, 54.
as the 1860 election neared: Cain, Lincoln"s Attorney General, pp. 9596.
dinner at Frank Blair"s home: Entry of April 27, 1859, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 11; Reinhard H. Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign (Cambridge, Ma.s.s.: Harvard University Press, 1944; Gloucester, Ma.s.s.: Peter Smith, 1964), pp. 5455.
Blair family details: See Elbert B. Smith, Francis Preston Blair (New York: Free Press/Macmillan Publishing Co., 1980), pp. 17273; William Ernest Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. I (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933), pp. 18588, 18991; Hendrick, Lincoln"s War Cabinet, pp. 6169, 388; Washington Post, September 14, 1906; Star, September 14, 1906; Virginia Jeans Laas, ed., Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991), pp. 1, 2; William E. Parrish, Frank Blair: Lincoln"s Conservative (Columbia, Mo., and London: University of Missouri Press, 1998). Francis P. Blair, owner, slave schedule for 5th District, Montgomery County, Maryland, Eighth Census of the United States, 1860 (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653, reel 485), Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group [RG] 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. [hereafter DNA]. Blair owned fifteen slaves in 1860.
had settled on the widely respected judge: Lincoln"s Attorney General, pp. 8486, 9192; Primm, Lion of the Valley, p. 230; Smith, Francis Preston Blair, p. 257; Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. I, pp. 46162.
"I feel...of character": Entry of July 5, 1859, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, pp. 2930.
"a mere seat...member": EB to Julia Coalter Bates, November 7, 1827, Bates Papers, ViHi.
"the mania...heretofore done": FB, quoted in Parrish, Frank Blair, p. 81.
"My nomination...in vain": Entry of January 9, 1860, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, pp. 8990.
days were increasingly...first ballot victory: Cain, Lincoln"s Attorney General, pp. 93, 94, 107.
"I have many strong...in New York, Pa.": Entry of December 1, 1859, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, pp. 7172.
pockets of opposition...German-Americans: Cain, Lincoln"s Attorney General, pp. 103, 106.
"There is no question...conservative antecedents": NYTrib, May 15, 1860.
Bates would triumph in Chicago: Cain, Lincoln"s Attorney General, p. 110.
"some of the most moderate and patriotic": EB, Letter of Hon. Edward Bates, of Missouri, Indorsing Mr. Lincoln, and Giving His Reasons for Supporting the Chicago Nominees (Washington, D.C.: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1860).
"would tend to soften...in the border States": Ibid.