At 1 a.m., Stanton telegraphed..."best detectives": EMS to John H. Kennedy, April 15, 1865, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XLVI, Part III, p. 783.
"The wound is mortal...is now dying": EMS to John A. Dix, April 15, 1865, 1:30 a.m., OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XLVI, Part III, p. 780.
"The President continues...shot the President": Ibid., 4:10 a.m., p. 781.
Shortly after dawn..."death-struggle had begun": Entry for April 14, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 288.
"As she entered"...sofa in the parlor: Taft, "Abraham Lincoln"s Last Hours," Century 45 (1893), p. 635.
"the town clocks...be again resumed": Field, Memories of Many Men, p. 325.
"Let us pray"...everyone present knelt: Leale to Butler, July 20, 1867, container 43, Butler Papers, DLC.
At 7:22 a.m.... "belongs to the ages": Donald, Lincoln, p. 599. As David Donald notes, witnesses thought theyheard several variations of Stanton"s utterance, including "He belongs to the ages now," "He now belongs to the Ages," and "He is a man for the ages." Donald, Lincoln, p. 686, endnote for p. 599 beginning "to the ages."
"Oh, why did you not...he was dying": NYH, April 16, 1865.
moans could be heard...taken to her carriage: Taft, "Abraham Lincoln"s Last Hours," Century 45 (1893), p. 636; Field, Memories of Many Men, p. 326.
Stanton"s "coolness"...streamed down his cheeks: NYH, April 16, 1865.
"Stanton"s grief...break down and weep bitterly": Porter, Campaigning with Grant, p. 501.
"Not everyone knows...his honor and yours": JH to EMS, July 26, 1865, in Hay, At Lincoln"s Side, p. 106.
"Is he dead?...entire face was distorted": Field, Memories of Many Men, p. 327.
walked to Seward"s house...Blair and his father: Entry for April 15, 1865, Chase Papers, Vol. I, pp. 529, 530.
"with tearful eyes...of our side": EBL to SPL, April 15, 1865, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 495.
Richmond Whig... "South has descended": Richmond Whig, quoted in Robert S. Harper, Lincoln and the Press (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1951), p. 360.
St. Louis...comfortable study: Entry for January 27, 1865, The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 443.
"the astounding news...country and for myself": Entry for April 15, 1865, in ibid., p. 473.
News of Lincoln"s death..."sinking into his mind": Brooks, Mr. Lincoln"s Washington, pp. 45859 (quotes p. 459).
"The history of governments...confidence and regard": "Hay"s Reminiscences of the Civil War," in Hay, At Lincoln"s Side, pp. 12829.
Flags remained..."the farewell march": Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln"s Time, pp. 271 (quote), 273.
nearly two hundred thousand Union soldiers: Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, p. 185.
"Never in the history...shrill call of bugles": Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln"s Time, pp. 27274.
"magnificent and imposing spectacle": Entry for May 19, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 310.
"You see in these...half a dozen presidents": EMS, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 288.
"more and more dim...found in every family": AL, "Address Before the Young Men"s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois," January 27, 1838, in CW, I, p. 115.
"a new birth of freedom...perish from the earth": AL, "Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg," final text, November 19, 1863, in CW, VII, p. 23.
second day belonged..."with our swords": Sherman, Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, p. 731.
All of Washington..."All felt this": Entry for April 19, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 310.
"a Cabinet which should...than one counsellor": WHS, "The President and His Cabinet," October 20, 1865, Works of William H. Seward, Vol. V, p. 527.
"I have no doubt...greatest man I ever knew": Tribute by General Grant, in Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 7.
"I have more than once...Nineteenth Century": Walt Whitman, "November Boughs," The Complete Prose Works of Walt Whitman, Vol. III (New York: G. P. Putnam"s Sons, Knickerbocker Press, 1902), pp. 20607.
Leo Tolstoy..."light beams directly on us": Leo Tolstoy, quoted in The World, New York, February 7, 1908.
"Every man is said...yet to be developed": AL, "Communication to the People of Sangamo County," March 9, 1832, in CW, I, p. 8.
"he had done nothing...that he had lived": AL, paraphrased in Joshua F. Speed to WHH, February 7, 1866, in HI, p. 197.
"conceived in Liberty...all men are created equal": AL, "Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863; Edward Everett Copy," in CW, VII, p. 21.
"With malice toward none; with charity for all": AL, "Second Inaugural Address," March 4, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 333.
EPILOGUE"night of horrors": Entries for April 14, 1865, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 529.
"vicarious suffering": FAS, in "Miscellaneous Fragments in Mrs. Seward"s Handwriting," reel 197, Seward Papers.
"the largest...woman in America": New York Independent, undated, in Seward family sc.r.a.pbook, Seward House Foundation Historical a.s.sociation, Inc., Library, Auburn, N.Y.
f.a.n.n.y remained...tuberculosis: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 266.
Seward was inconsolable: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 417.
"Truly it may...mother and daughter": Washington Republican, undated, in Seward family sc.r.a.pbook, Seward House.
attempts to mediate...radicals in Congress: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 452.
"Seward"s Folly": Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 278.
spent his last years traveling: Ibid., pp. 29091, 29294; NYT, October 11, 1872.
Jenny asked..."Love one another": Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 296; Seward, Seward at Washington...18611872, p. 508 (quote).
Thurlow Weed...wept openly: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 296.
Stanton"s remaining...asked for his resignation: Pratt, Stanton, p. 452; Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 583.