ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES:AL
Abraham LincolnCS
Charles SumnerEB
Edward BatesEBL
Elizabeth Blair LeeEMS
Edwin M. StantonFAS
Frances A. (Miller) SewardFB
Francis Preston ("Frank") Blair, Jr.FPB
Francis Preston Blair, Sr.FS
Frances A. ("f.a.n.n.y") SewardFWS
Frederick W. SewardGBM
George B. McClellanGW
Gideon WellesJGN
John G. NicolayJH
John HayJWW
Jesse W. WeikKCS
Kate Chase SpragueLW
Lazette M. (Miller) WordenMB
Montgomery BlairMEM
Mary Ellen McClellanMTL
Mary Todd LincolnSPC
Salmon P. ChaseSPL
Samuel Phillips LeeTB
Therena BatesTW
Thurlow WeedUSG
Ulysses S. GrantWHH
William H. HerndonWHS
William H. SewardCW
Collected Works of Abraham LincolnHI
Herndon"s Informants NR National Republican, Washington, D.C.NYH
New York Herald, New York, N.Y.NYT
New York Times, New York, N.Y.NYTrib
New York Tribune, New York, N.Y.OR
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (128 vols., Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 18801901)Star
Evening Star, Washington, D.C.Chase Papers
The Salmon P. Chase Papers: Microfilm Edition, ed. John Niven (Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1987)Lincoln Papers
Papers of Abraham Lincoln, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress. Available at Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress, Ma.n.u.script Division (Washington, D.C.: American Memory Project, [200001]), Papers
Papers of John G. Nicolay, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of CongressSeward Papers
The Papers of William H. Seward (Woodbridge, Conn.: Research Publications, 1983Welles Papers
Papers of Gideon Welles, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of CongressNOTE TO READERS: When quoting from primary doc.u.ments, original spelling and grammar have been kept.
INTRODUCTION
"there is little...of Abraham Lincoln": Frederick Dougla.s.s, "Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln," April 14, 1876, in Frederick Dougla.s.s: Selected Speeches and Writings, ed. Philip S. Foner, abridged by Yuval Taylor (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1999), pp. 62021.
"comparatively unknown...such anxious times": Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Abraham Lincoln," in Miscellanies (Cambridge, Ma.s.s.: Riverside Press, 1904), pp. 33031.
"very near...perfect man": EB, quoted in F. B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1866), p. 68.
"field of glory": AL, "Address Before the Young Men"s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois," January 27, 1838, in CW, I, p. 113.
"a new birth of freedom": AL, "Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863; Edward Everett Copy," in CW, VII, p. 21.
CHAPTER 1: FOUR MEN WAITING