"with bowed head...into the street": Charles Carleton Coffin, "Lincoln"s First Nomination and His Visit to Richmond in 1865," in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1909 edn.), p. 176.
Mary was similarly distraught: Entry for October 22, 1861, in Russell, My Diary North and South, p. 558.
Willie and Tad...were heartbroken: Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 191.
"On the Death of Colonel Edward Baker": NR, November 4, 1861.
"to care for him...his orphan": AL, "Second Inaugural Address," March 4, 1865, in CW, VIII, p. 333.
"disaster...committed": GBM to Division Commanders, Army of the Potomac, October 24, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 111.
"The whole thing...directly to blame": GBM to MEM, October 25, 1861, in ibid., p. 111.
the president defended McClellan: Entry for October 26, 1861, in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 28.
unleashed a diatribe...to remove Scott: GBM to MEM, October 26, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 112; Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 123.
"You may have...heads to call me": GBM to MEM, October 30, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 112.
"long and brilliant...deep emotion": AL, "Order Retiring Winfield Scott from Command," November 1, 1861, in CW, V, p. 10.
Lincoln designated McClellan: AL to GBM, November 1, 1861, in ibid., pp. 910.
"I saw there...his successor": GBM to MEM, November 3, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, pp. 12324.
All the members...on his journey: Star, November 2, 1861; Charles Winslow Elliott, Winfield Scott: The Soldier and the Man. American Military Experience Series (New York: Arno Press, 1979), p. 743.
"quite a number of citizens": NYH, November 4, 1861.
the young Napoleon: Sears, George B. McClellan, p. xi.
"I do not intend to be sacrificed": GBM to MEM, October 31, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 113.
to confront the rebel forces: GBM to Simon Cameron, October 31, 1861, in ibid., pp. 11419; GBM to MEM, August 16, 1861, in ibid., p. 85.
"to dodge...Presdt etc.": GBM to MEM, October 31, 1861, in ibid., p. 113.
"the original...his high position": GBM to MEM, November 17, 1861, in ibid., pp. 13536.
"I wish here to record...personal dignity": Entry for November 13, 1861, in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 32.
He would hold...could be achieved: Henry Ketcham, The Life of Abraham Lincoln (New York: A. L. Burt, 1901), p. 291.
"A minute pa.s.ses...rebellious consciousness": Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, p. 63.
His "mouth would relax...sea of laughter": Grimsley, "Six Months in the White House," JISHS, p. 55.
"daily drive...so much needed": Ibid.
soirees in the Blue Room: Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 9697, 98; MTL to Hannah Shearer, October 6, 1861, ibid., p. 108; Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 231.
Daniel Sickles..."temporary insanity": Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, pp. 8385.
Henry Wikoff..."and Thackeray": John W. Forney, Anecdotes of Public Men, Vol. I (New York: Harper & Bros., 1873; New York: Da Capo Press, 1970), pp. 36671 (quote p. 367).
"My wife...never fallen out": AL, quoted in Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 196.
When Prince Napoleon...visited: Entry for August 3, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 58.
"We only have...proper season": MTL to Hannah Shearer, August 1, 1861, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 96.
"beautiful dinner...predominated": Grimsley, "Six Months in the White House," JISHS, p. 70.
Mary requested Volume 9: Entry for August 5, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 59.
William Scott: Court-martial of Private William Scott, Co. K, 3rd Vermont Infantry, case file OO-209, Court-Martial Case Files, 18091894, entry 15, Records of the Office of the Judge Advocate General (Army), RG 153, DNA; NYT, September 10, 1861.
As the story was told: See L. E. Chittenden, Recollections of President Lincoln and His Administration (New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1901), p. 267.
"Think...much as he tried to": Grimsley, "Six Months in the White House," JISHS, p. 71.
Lincoln walked over...""Lady President"": George B. McClellan, McClellan"s Own Story (New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1887), p. 91 (quote); entry for September 8, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 65.
"that it was asking..."only one he had"": Chittenden, Recollections of President Lincoln (1901 edn.), p. 273.
"the most beautiful...my own": MTL to Hannah Shearer, July 11, 1861, Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 94.
drives with the Sewards: See entries for September 1, 3, and 6, 1861, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers, for examples of afternoons spent driving with Sewards; FAS to LW, [August 1861], reel 119, Seward Papers.
"a plain...& the crops": FAS to LW, [July 1861?], reel 119, Seward Papers.
"I liked him...all over him": Entry for September 1, 1861, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.
"abandon of...climb a rope": NYT, June 17, 1861.
"With one impulse...mouth to mouth": Entry for September 6, 1861, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.
"I love...and does": Entry for September 9, 1861, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.
"palatial...tasteful & attractive": FAS to LW, [July 1861?], reel 119, Seward Papers.
confined to her bed by migraines: See FAS to LW, [August 1861], reel 119, Seward Papers; ""I have supped full on horrors," from f.a.n.n.y Seward"s Diary," ed. Patricia Carley Johnson, American Heritage X (October 1959), p. 62.
vacation in upstate New York and Long Branch: Entry for August 14, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 60.
"especially as...her husband": FAS to LW, [July 1861?], reel 119, Seward Papers.
word came..."company in the evening": Entry for September 9, 1861, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.