Part 120 (1/2)
Though a severe rainstorm: Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (New York: C. L. Webster, 1885; New York: Modern Library, 1999), p. 152.
”plain brother...a presentiment”: USG to Mary Grant, February 9, 1862, The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Vol. IV: January 8March 31, 1862, ed. John Y. Simon (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972), p. 180.
Buckner, proposed a cease-fire...”can be accepted”: USG to Simon B. Buckner, February 16, 1862, enclosure 3 of USG to G. W. Cullum, February 16, 1862, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. VII, p. 161.
Buckner...taken prisoner: USG to General G. W. Cullum, February 16, 1862, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. VII, p. 159.
More than a thousand troops: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 401.
”a most b.l.o.o.d.y...brought through”: Captain L. D. Waddell to William Coventry H. Wadell, quoted in NYT, February 26, 1862.
Hundred-gun salutes: NYT, February 18, 1862.
”quite wild with Excitement”: Entry for February 15, 1862, Taft diary.
”the gallery rose...enthusiastic cheers”: NYT, February 18, 1862.
to illuminate the capital's public buildings...Was.h.i.+ngton's birthday: NYH, February 21, 1862.
promoting him to major general: Entry for February 17, 1862, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 95.
Lincoln had been following: Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. I, p. 462.
”I have come among you...fellow-citizen”: USG, ”Proclamation, to the Citizens of Paducah!” September 6, 1861, The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Vol. II: AprilSeptember 1861, ed. John Y. Simon (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969), p. 194.
”Grant had taken the field”...items to the front: Isaac N. Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, & Co., 1885), p. 281.
Fort Donelson's capture...capture of New Orleans: For more on events from the surrender of Fort Donelson to the capture of New Orleans, see McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 40220.
It is believed that both boys...typhoid fever: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 208: Seale, The President's House, Vol. I, p. 379.
Willie was affected...more severely: MTL to Julia Ann Sprigg, May 29, 1862, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 128; Milton H. Shutes, ”Mortality of the Five Lincoln Boys,” Lincoln Herald 57 (Spring Summer 1955), p. 4.
”grew weaker...shadow-like”: Keckley, Behind the Scenes, p. 98.
symptoms of his illness: ”Typhus, Typhoid, and Relapsing Fevers,” Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. XXIII, ed. Day Otis Kellogg (30 vols., New York and Chicago: The Werner Company, 1898), pp. 67879.
”almost wore...with watching”: Benjamin B. French to Henry F. French, February 27, 1862, reel 5, Papers of Benjamin B. French Family, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress [hereafter French Family Papers, DLC].
She canceled the customary: Unknown Was.h.i.+ngton newspaper, quoted in Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 197.
”pretty much all his attention”: JGN to TB, February 11, 1862, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
Willie would call for...”tenderly to bed”: Bayne, Tad Lincoln's Father, pp. 199200.
celebratory illuminations were canceled: Entry for February 23, 1862, in French, Witness to the Young Republic, p. 388; Benjamin B. French to Henry F. French, February 27, 1862, reel 5, French Family Papers, DLC.
”the President...of their affliction”: Star, February 18, 1862.
”as if they did...So the doctors say”: Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, p. 66.