Part 111 (1/2)

”When men like...such an army”: ”30 April 1861, Tuesday,” in ibid., p. 14.

”the first, the only...lodgment there”: Entry for November 11, 1868, KCS diary, Sprague Papers.

”Do you remember...such in life”: William Sprague to KCS, May 27, 1866, Sprague Papers.

”accustomed to...be antic.i.p.ated”: Entry for November 11, 1868, KCS diary, Sprague Papers.

Nettie Chase told Kate...would marry: KCS to Janet Chase Hoyt, September 29, 1861, reel 17, Chase Papers.

Elmer Ellsworth: Brian D. McKnight, ”Ellsworth, Elmer Ephraim,” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 647: Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 92.

wrote a personal note of condolence: AL to Ephrain D. and Phoebe Ellsworth, May 25, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 38586.

”quite unable...out of my eyes”: JGN to TB, May 25, 1861, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

Mary was presented...packed away: Bayne, Tad Lincoln's Father, p. 39.

a resolution...belligerent status: Entry for May 6, 1861, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, pp. 7071; Norman A. Graebner, ”Northern Diplomacy and European Neutrality,” in Why the North Won the Civil War, ed. David Donald (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1960; New York and London: Collier Books, Macmillan Publis.h.i.+ng Co., 1962), p. 60.

”younger branch...is too late”: WHS to FAS, May 17, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, pp. 57576.

”G.o.d d.a.m.n 'em, I'll give 'em h.e.l.l”: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 298.

On May 21...two wars at once: Jay Monaghan, Diplomat in Carpet Slippers: Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1945), p. 114; Allen Thorndike Rice, ”A Famous Diplomatic Dispatch,” North American Review 142 (April 1886), pp. 40211.

”surprised and grieved...she has a natural claim”: AL, ”Revision of William H. Seward to Charles Francis Adams,” May 21, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 37778, 379 n14, 380.

the basis for a hard-line policy: Todd Anthony Rosa, ”Diplomacy, U.S.A.” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 602.

”currency to Southern bonds”: WHS to TW, May 23, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 576.

”the ablest American”...his country's position: Rice, ”A Famous Diplomatic Dispatch,” NAR 142 (1886), pp. 4023, 404 (quote).

”It is due to...every day”: WHS to FAS, May 17, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 575.

”Executive skill...a.s.siduous cooperation”: WHS to FAS, June 5, 1861, quoted in ibid., p. 590.

”to his chief...personal attachment”: Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. IV, p. 449.

”a brilliant a.s.semblage...twenty years more”: NYT, May 22, 1861.

forced to rely on government loans: Blue, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 14346.