Fred was in the Senate gallery...""let you know in the morning"": Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, pp. 50910.
Pinkerton insisted...in the afternoon as scheduled: Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 78.
"side-tracked...Capitol came in sight": Lamon, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 40, 45.
had "crept into Washington": EMS, quoted in Helen Nicolay, Our Capital on the Potomac (New York and London: Century Co., 1924), p. 358.
A scurrilous rumor spread...a long military cloak: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 244.
"It"s to be hoped...on his Administration": Entry for February 23, 1861, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 102.
"Genl Jackson...where he left": MB to AL, December 8, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
had rented a private house: Lamon, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, p. 34; Leech, Reveille in Washington, p. 36.
"now public property...he is inaugurated": TW, quoted in Lamon, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, p. 34.
"The truth is...have access to me": Ibid., p. 35.
"the President-elect...met him at the depot": Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 511.
"much out of breath...arrival of the train": "Seward and Lincoln: The Washington Depot Episode," University of Rochester Library Bulletin (Spring 1965), p. 33.
"a virtuoso performance": Daniel W. Crofts, "Secession Winter: William Henry Seward and the Decision for War," New York History 65 (July 1984), p. 248.
breakfasted together..."pate de foie gras": Leech, Reveille in Washington, p. 8.
"tall awkward Irishman...loud & unrefined": Harriet Lane to unknown recipient, February 24, 1861, reel 3, Papers of James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress.
Seward shepherded Lincoln...conversation with Scott: Star, February 23 and 25, 1861.
Lincoln had promised Weed and Seward: Crofts, "Secession Winter," New York History (1984), p. 248.
"living position in the South": AL to WHS, January 12, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 173.
"to grieve...in hostility": WHS to AL, January 15, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
he had met with a delegation...he reached Washington: Baringer, A House Dividing, pp. 28990 (quote p. 289); James Millikin to Simon Cameron, February 22, 1861, in Concerning Mr. Lincoln: In Which Abraham Lincoln is Pictured as he Appeared to Letter Writers of His Time, comp. Harry E. Pratt (Springfield, Ill.: Abraham Lincoln a.s.sociation, 1944), pp. 5760; t.i.tian J. Coffey to Simon Cameron, February 22, 1861, in ibid., pp. 6063.
Lincoln rested...his old adversary: Entry for February 23, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 21; Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. I, p. 90; Star, February 25, 1861.
"The Blairs...they undertake": AL, quoted in "[9 December 1863, Wednesday]," in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 123.
Blairs had been appalled...aggression from the South: FPB to AL, January 14, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
"that one Southern man...to despise": MB to Gustavus V. Fox, January 31, 1861, reprinted in Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox, a.s.sistant Secretary of the Navy, 18611865, Vol. I, ed. Robert Means Thompson and Richard Wainwright, orig. published as Vols. IXX of the Publications of the Naval History Society, 1920 (Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1972), pp. 45.
"In your cabinet...for the succession": FPB to AL, January 14, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
"four carriages...considerable swearing": Star, Washington, D.C., February 25, 1861.
Seward"s home for a dinner: Entry for February 23, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 21; Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 26568.
members of the Peace Convention: Entry for February 23, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 21.
"to scoff...facility of expression": Lucius E. Chittenden, Recollections of Lincoln and His Administration (New York: Harper & Bros., 1891), pp. 71, 72.
Chase stiffly a.s.sumed: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 236.
"had some apt...his name": Chittenden, Recollections of Lincoln, p. 72.
"He has been both...misfortune": William Rives and Thomas Ruffin, both quoted in ibid., p. 77.
"clear and bl.u.s.tering...with mighty power": Entry for February 24, 1861, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 76.
"Governor Seward...you are familiar": Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, p. 147.
Seward and Lincoln made an informal visit: Entry for February 25, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 22.
"affected nonchalance...plain English": NYT, February 27, 1861.
"face has not yet...of the mult.i.tude": Star, February 26, 1861.
"without a precedent...proprieties of his position": NYT, February 27, 1861.
"I had partly...against you in malice": AL to Schuyler Colfax, March 8, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 278.
opposition to Norman Judd; offered ministry post in Berlin: See King, Lincoln"s Manager, pp. 17072.
"Judd...borne inspection": MTL to David Davis, January 17, 1861, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 71.
"in an agony...in February": Niven, Gideon Welles, p. 321.
"It is by no means...not go at all": GW to Edgar T. Welles, February 27, 1861, reel 18, Welles Papers.
"I desire to see you here forthwith": Hannibal Hamlin to GW, February 28, 1861, quoted in Niven, Gideon Welles, p. 321.
In his hurry to catch the train...the navy portfolio: Niven, Gideon Welles, pp. 32122.
"The struggle for Cabinet...hourly": Star, March 1, 1861.
conflict over Chase and Seward: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 237.
Seward sent a note to Lincoln: Entry for March 2, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 23.
"I can"t afford...the first trick": John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol. III (New York: Century Co., 1917), p. 371.
"It is the subject...the same direction": AL to WHS, March 4, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 273.