Rise to Greatness (65 page)

During the awkward pause: Poore,
Perley’s Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis,
Vol. 2, pp. 119–20.

fistfight in the kitchen: Nicolay to Therena Bates, Feb. 6, 1862.

“the most splendid”: Dahlgren diary, Feb. 5, 1862 (p. 356n).

“I shall take and destroy”: Grant to Halleck, Feb. 6, 1862.

not much for hunkering: Grant,
Memoirs and Selected Letters,
pp. 196–97.

Stanton strode into a cabinet meeting: Bates diary, Feb. 14, 1862.

Lincoln was delighted: ibid.

mount a siege: Grant,
Memoirs and Selected Letters,
p. 204.

the Rebels were in position: Hurst,
Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War,
pp. 262–71.

constant supply of ammunition: Grant,
Memoirs and Selected Letters,
p. 205.

Grant had a hunch: ibid., p. 196.

“The one who attacks first”: ibid., p. 205.

“greatest single supply disaster”: Hattaway and Jones,
How the North Won,
p. 150.

Since his visit with Emerson: Miers,
Lincoln Day by Day
, Vol. 3, Feb. 7 and 13, 1862.

“Goethe teaches courage”: Emerson, “Goethe,” in
Representative Men: Seven Lectures,
p. 275.

“I cannot speak so confidently”: Nicolay journal, Feb. 17, 1862.

He proposed an amnesty:
CW,
Vol. 5, p. 135; see also Dahlgren diary, Feb. 16, 1862.

“We have unmistakeable evidence”: Seward to Adams, Feb. 5, 1862.

“Our friends want”: Adams to Seward, Feb. 7, 1862.

“The great victory at Mill Spring”: Seward to Adams, Feb. 17, 1862.

A French nobleman: Dahlgren diary, Feb. 21, 1862.

“the switch had been turned off”: Dayton to Seward, Feb. 27, 1862.

They were worried about Willie: Keckley,
Behind the Scenes,
pp. 100–102.

“absorbed pretty much all”: Nicolay to Therena Bates, Feb. 11, 1862; Nicolay journal, Feb. 18, 1862.

“He was his father over again”: Randall,
Lincoln’s Sons,
p. 51.

“an amiable, good-hearted boy”: Taft diary, Feb. 20, 1862.

“He never failed to seek me out”: quoted in Keckley,
Behind the Scenes,
pp. 106–10.

removed his hat and bowed: ibid.

“before they have any”: Randall,
Lincoln’s Sons,
p. 127.

“the most lovable boy”: Bayne,
Tad Lincoln’s Father,
p. 3.

Willie had a crush: ibid., p. 166.

“good as pie”: ibid., pp. 31–32.

“the most indulgent parent”: Joseph Gillespie, quoted in
Herndon’s Informants,
p. 181.

“love is the chain”:
RW,
p. 296.

They shelled a cabinet meeting: Bayne,
Tad Lincoln’s Father,
pp. 101, 104–5; Stoddard,
Lincoln’s Third Secretary: The Memoirs of William O. Stoddard,
pp. 98–99.

Recalling the hard labor: John Romine, quoted in
Herndon’s Informants,
p. 118.

“let the goat be”:
RW,
p. 415.

“sit on his stomach!”: Bayne,
Tad Lincoln’s Father,
pp. 109–10.

“I know every step”:
RW,
p. 185.

Willie wasting away: cf. Stoddard,
Inside the White House in War Times,
p. 66.

“in extremis”: Bates diary, Feb. 18, 1862.

carved rosewood bed: Seale,
The President’s House,
Vol. 1, pp. 374–86.

“If I go he will call for me”: quoted in Randall,
Mary Lincoln,
p. 253.

“my boy is gone”: Nicolay diary, Feb. 20, 1862.

Pomroy arrived: Boyden,
Echoes from Hospital and White House,
pp. 52–56.

“a growing man in religion”: quoted in Carwardine,
Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power,
p. 33.

“He found difficulty”:
RW,
p. 137.

“This is the hardest trial”: Boyden,
Echoes from Hospital and White House,
pp. 52–56.

grab a tree: Bates diary, Feb. 24, 1862.

Before the funeral: French diary, March 2, 1862.

a simple affair that brought tears: Keckley,
Behind the Scenes,
pp. 106–10.

Afterward, Lincoln and his oldest son: French diary, March 2, 1862; Boyden,
Echoes from Hospital and White House,
pp. 56–57.

placed in a crypt: Browning diary, Feb. 24, 1862.

his temper sometimes frayed: Pierce, “The Freedmen at Port Royal,”
The Atlantic Monthly
12, no. 71 (September 1863), pp. 291–315.

“There seems to be a great itching”: Edward Pierce, quoted in
Herndon’s Informants,
pp. 684–85.

credit for the colossal success: Grant,
Memoirs and Selected Letters,
p. 214.

this fiasco: ibid., pp. 219–20.

“We could have marched”: ibid., p. 214.

“Every boat that came up”: ibid., p. 213.

place Grant under arrest: McClellan to Halleck, March 3, 1862.

“resumed his former bad habits”: Halleck to McClellan, quoted in Foote,
The Civil War,
Vol. 1, p. 317.

“I was disgusted”: quoted in Smith,
Grant,
pp. 168–69.

“You cannot be relieved”: Halleck to Grant, March 13, 1862, quoted in Smith,
Grant,
p. 178.

“time was given the enemy”: Grant,
Memoirs and Selected Letters,
pp. 214–15.

This scolding, along with Lincoln’s order: Sears,
George B. McClellan,
pp. 156–68.

“It was a magnificent spectacle”: McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, Feb. 27, 1862.

“Why in tarnation”: Nicolay diary, Feb. 27, 1862.

4: MARCH

gave Lincoln a memo: Nicolay and Hay,
Abraham Lincoln: A History,
Vol. 3, pp. 445–49.

“I have none”:
RW,
p. 269.

“fonder of details”: Adams,
Richard Henry Dana: A Biography,
Vol. 2, p. 264.

“‘
only five minutes’”:
Nicolay to Therena Bates, March 24, 1861.

“so busy in letting rooms”:
RW,
p. 375.

“You are Seward’s man”: Duberman,
Charles Francis Adams,
pp. 256–57.

“the Chicago post-office”: Adams,
Charles Francis Adams: An American Statesman,
pp. 145–46.

Two scholars estimated: Carman and Luthin,
Lincoln and the Patronage,
p. 332; see also Carwardine,
Lincoln,
for an extensive and shrewd discussion of Lincoln’s skillful use of political patronage.

“‘Fairness to all’”: Lincoln to Seward, December 1861, quoted in Nicolay, “Lincoln in the Campaign of 1860,” in
An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln,
p. 94.

a dozen Irish-born Union generals: Carman and Luthin,
Lincoln and the Patronage,
pp. 156-60.

“I want Schimmelfennig”:
RW,
p. 165.

“for this great Methodist church”: quoted in “Conversation … [with Congressman] Orth of Indiana,” in
An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln,
p. 82.

“bail[ing] out the Potomac”:
RW,
p. 210.

“never under any administration”: “Two Manuscripts of Gideon Welles,” edited by Muriel Burnitt,
The New England Quarterly
11, no. 3 (September 1938), p. 594.

he declined to appoint: Donald,
“We Are Lincoln Men,”
pp. 122–23.

“give more to his enemies”: Leonard Swett, quoted in Herndon and Weik,
Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. 2, pp. 243–44.

“a considerable portion of every day”: Welles diary, Sept. 16, 1862.

“limited to a couple of stories”:
RW,
p. 126.

“nonsensical and preposterous dialogue”: Van Deusen,
William Henry Seward,
p. 256.

“don’t let it be smutty”: ibid.

he visited Lincoln to preview: After Seward’s initial reckless steps as secretary of state, Lincoln insisted that major dispatches be edited and approved by him before they were sent. Thus, the diplomatic correspondence between Seward and the American envoys in Europe provides an important window on Lincoln’s strategic thinking. Cf.
RW,
p. 156.

“at the beginning of the end”: Seward to Adams, March 6, 1862.

“The Government has attempted more”: Davis, quoted in the
New York Times,
March 1, 1862.

“a question of resources”:
RW,
p. 106.

every money stream … would be tapped:
New York Times,
March 10, 1862.

“something to complain of”: ibid., March 4, 1862.

enormous economic advantage: National Geographic Society,
Atlas of the Civil War: A Comprehensive Guide to the Tactics and Terrain of Battle,
p. 22.

Pea Ridge: Long,
The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac, 1861–1865,
pp. 179–81; Earl J. Hess, “Battle of Pea Ridge,” in Heidler and Heidler, eds.,
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War,
pp. 1467–68.

“disease of the entire nation”:
RW,
p. 119.

“slavery is no small affair”: ibid., p. 368.

“full and equal share”: ibid., p. 122.

The details … had been taking shape: cf. Guelzo,
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation,
pp. 60–65, 102–8.

He proposed … a joint resolution:
CW,
Vol. 5, pp. 144–46.

“deprive them of this hope”: ibid.

“milk-and-water gruel”: quoted in Nicolay and Hay,
Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. 6, p. 107.

“The proposition … is an epoch”: Sumner to Frances Bird, March 12, 1862.

“The great, transcendent fact”: quoted in Guelzo,
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation,
p. 107; see also
New York Times,
March 7, 1862.

“a presentiment that he should die”: Bates diary, March 17, 1862.

“Have you noticed the facts”:
CW,
Vol. 5, pp. 152–53.

“talk plainly”: Sumner to John Andrew, March 2, 1862.

complained that … Stanton kept him away: McClellan,
McClellan’s Own Story,
p. 195.

bending in McClellan’s favor: McClellan to Halleck, March 3, 1862.

a memo for the War Department: “To the War Department,” in
The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860–1865,
pp. 193–94.

“damned fizzle”: Nicolay diary, Feb. 27, 1862.

“unexpected piece of good fortune”: McClellan to Samuel Barlow, Jan. 18, 1862.

Stanton had been hearing: Stanton to Thomas Ewing, Sr., April 2, 1862, Ewing Family Papers, Box 67, Library of Congress Manuscript Division.

“caused great solicitude”: ibid.

photographers’ shops … were packed: Taft diary, April 1, 1862.