Part 119 (2/2)

performances in the attic: Bayne, Tad Lincoln's Father, pp. 102, 106.

the pony...favorite pastime: Keckley, Behind the Scenes, p. 98; entries for January 26 and 27, 1862, Taft diary.

weather conditions in January: See January 1862 entries in Taft diary.

”There is a good deal...in the City”: Entry for January 8, 1862, Taft diary.

”a dreadful eruption...expected to live”: EMS to Oella Wright, March 24, 1862, in Wolcott, ”Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 155.

”burning fever...ulcerated” throat: FAS to LW, February 2, 1862, reel 119, Seward Papers.

Seward left Was.h.i.+ngton: WHS to AL, February 6, 1862, Lincoln Papers.

Nettie Chase...contracted scarlet fever: SPC to KCS, January 10, 1862, reel 18, Chase Papers.

Mary thought it best...been sent out: Keckley, Behind the Scenes, p. 100.

”the dean...medical community”: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 209.

”in no immediate...an early recovery”: Keckley, Behind the Scenes, p. 100.

The carriages...received their guests: Poore, Perley's Reminiscences, Vol. II, pp. 11518; Frank Leslie's Ill.u.s.trated Newspaper, February 22, 1862.

”exquisite taste...a Grecian knot behind”: Frank Leslie's Ill.u.s.trated Newspaper, February 22, 1862.

At midnight...including General McClellan: ”Lincoln's First Levee,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 11 (October 1918), p. 389; Poore, Perley's Reminiscences, Vol. II, pp. 11920 (quote).

”The brilliance...the suffering boy”: Keckley, Behind the Scenes, p. 102.

”Those who were here...others have not”: JGN to TB, February 6, 1862, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

”frivolity, hilarity...within plain sight”: Jeffersonian Democrat, reprinted in The Liberator, February 28, 1862.

”a brilliant spectacle”: Star, February 6, 1862.

”our fair 'Republican Queen'...of beauty”: Frank Leslie's Ill.u.s.trated Newspaper, February 22, 1862.

General Ulysses S. Grant: On Ulysess S. Grant's careers prior to the Civil War, see chapters 25 of William S. McFeely, Grant: A Biography (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1982).

Grant understood...an important mission: Ibid., pp. 9697.

”to take and hold Fort Henry”: H. W. Halleck to USG, January 30, 1862, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. VII, p. 121.

Grant and Foote...Fort Donelson: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 396; Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. V, pp. 12022.

”Fort Henry is ours...on the 8th”: USG to H. W. Halleck, February 6, 1862, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. VII, p. 124.

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