Part 121 (1/2)
”to try us...is not with us”: MTL to Julia Ann Sprigg, May 29, 1862, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 128.
speculating that G.o.d...”of little else”: MTL to Hannah Shearer, November 20, 1864, in ibid., p. 189.
”foresaken...so lovely a child”: MTL to Mrs. Charles Eames, July 26, 1862, in ibid., p. 131.
”far happier...when on earth”: MTL to Mary Jane Welles, February 21, 1863, in ibid., p. 147.
”Death...blessed transition”: MTL to CS, July 4, 1865, in ibid., p. 256.
”where there are...no more tears shed”: MTL to Mary Jane Welles, July 11, 1865, in ibid., p. 257.
Through Elizabeth Keckley...celebrated medium: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 219.
the ”veil...the 'loved & lost'”: MTL to CS, July 4, 1865, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 256.
”the spirits of the dead...have become alive”: Princess Felix Salm-Salm, Ten Years of My Life (Detroit: Belford Bros., 1877), pp. 59, 60.
”offered tangible...power of sympathy”: Robert S. c.o.x, Body and Soul: A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2003), p. 85.
”an altered woman”...look at his picture: Keckley, Behind the Scenes, p. 116.
She sent all his toys...was laid out: Ibid., pp. 11617; Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 210, 213.
On the Thursday...his terrible grief: Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, p. 67.
”That blow...never felt it before”: AL, quoted by Rev. Willets, in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 18788.
Three months after...”my lost boy Willie”: AL, quoted in Le Grand B. Cannon, Personal Reminiscences of the Rebellion, 18611866. Black Heritage Library Collection (1895; Freeport, N.Y.: Books For Libraries Press, 1971), p. 174; the quotation from King John is in Act III, scene IV.
Lincoln cherished mementos...and tell stories: Randall, Mary Lincoln, pp. 29192.
he invited Browning...important events: Entry for June 22, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 553.
”the memory...you have known before”: AL to f.a.n.n.y McCullough, December 23, 1862, in CW, VI, p. 17.
CHAPTER 16: ”HE WAS SIMPLY OUT-GENERALED”
the ”sad calamity...be left undone”: GBM to AL, February 22, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
McClellan's a.s.surances...contentious meeting: Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, pp. 7784; Bruce Tap, ”Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War (18611865),” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 1086.
”that neither...defer to General McClellan”: George W. Julian, Political Recollections, 1840 to 1872 (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1884), p. 201.
Bates strenuously objected...”commanders”: Entry for January 10, 1862, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, pp. 22324.
He borrowed General Halleck's book: Entry for January 8, 1862, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 88.
”he was thinking...himself”: Entry for January 12, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 523.