Part 115 (1/2)

”If things...my husband”: MTL, quoted in George B. Lincoln to GW, April 25, 1874, quoted in ”New Light on the Seward-Welles-Lincoln Controversy,” Lincoln Lore 1718 (April 1981), p. 3.

”It makes me...skein of thread”: MTL, quoted in Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes. Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House. The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers Series (New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1868; New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 131.

the long evenings Lincoln spent at Seward's: Hendrick, Lincoln's War Cabinet, p. 186.

”My friend...churchwarden!”: Wilson, Intimate Memories of Lincoln, p. 422.

”a t.i.the...read for ever”: Entry for October 12, 1861, in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 26.

”personal courage...the enemy is”: Entry for October 10, 1861, in ibid., p. 25.

brought up the Chicago convention...”his life in his hand”: Entry for October 17, 1861, in ibid., pp. 26, 27.

probably rekindled memories...on the circuit: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 188.

the fighting...in Missouri: See Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. IV, chapter 11, esp. pp. 20611; Thomas L. Snead, ”The First Year of the War in Missouri,” in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. I, Part I, Grant-Lee edition (New York: Century Co., 188788; Harrisburg, Penn.: Archive Society, 1991), pp. 26265.

Frank Blair...General Nathaniel Lyon: Snead, ”The First Year of the War in Missouri,” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. I, Pt. 1, pp. 26468; Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 39; ”Missouri for the Union,” in Parrish, Frank Blair.

”thickly veiled”...revolvers: Snead, ”The First Year of the War in Missouri,” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. I, Pt. 1, p. 265 (quote); see also Franklin A. d.i.c.k, ”Memorandum of Matters in Missouri,” Papers ofF. A. d.i.c.k, Miscellaneous Ma.n.u.scripts Collection, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress.

the ”earnest solicitation”: Entry for December 9, 1863, in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 123.

”He is just...eminently practical”: ”Editorial, 3 August 1861,” in Hay, Lincoln's Journalist, p. 84.

”There was...magical influence”: Koerner, Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, Vol. II, p. 162.

”recklessness in expenditures”: JGN, memorandum of September 17, 1861, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

Tales circulated...unwanted visitors: Ibid.; FB to Governor Dennison, September 19, 1861, quoted in Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, pp. 7980.

Fremont...had chosen to stay: Lorenzo Thomas to Simon Cameron, October 21, 1861, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. III, p. 543; Parrish, Frank Blair, p. 116.

General Lyon's death...devastating defeat: Entries for August 10 and September 20, 1861, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, pp. 107, 120.

Fremont issued a bold proclamation...”declared freemen”: Proclamation of John C. Fremont, August 30, 1861, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. III, pp. 46667 (quotes p. 467).

far exceeded...their future status: Joseph Holt to AL, September 12, 1861, Lincoln Papers.

Lincoln learned of...a private letter to Fremont: Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. IV, pp. 416, 41718.

unilaterally recast...war against slavery: Benjamin Quarles, Lincoln and the Negro (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962; repr. New York: Da Capo Press, 1990), p. 71.

has ”anxiety...so as to conform”: AL to John C. Fremont, September 2, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 506.

”Fremont's proclamation...future condition”: AL to Orville H. Browning, September 22, 1861, in ibid., p. 531.

”The trouble...only to himself”: Carpenter, ”A Day with Governor Seward,” Seward Papers.

”unable to eat...on such a principle”: Joshua Speed to AL, September 3, 1861, Lincoln Papers.