Part 104 (1/2)

Fred was in the Senate gallery...”'let you know in the morning'”: Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...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 Was.h.i.+ngton”: 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 Was.h.i.+ngton, 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 Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 511.

”much out of breath...arrival of the train”: ”Seward and Lincoln: The Was.h.i.+ngton 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 Was.h.i.+ngton, 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 Was.h.i.+ngton: 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, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., February 25, 1861.