Part 131 (1/2)

”Suppose you...be left in it?”: EMS, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 147.

Welles told Seward...”greatly pleased”: Entry for December 20, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 200.

Monty Blair entered...Seward's resignation: Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 147.

When Welles returned...hand in his own resignation: Entry for December 20, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 201.

Word had already leaked...”course of difficulties”: Henry Cooke to Jay Cooke, December 20, 1862, in Oberholtzer, Jay Cooke, pp. 224, 226 (quotes p. 226).

”had been painfully...neither of you longer”: Entry for December 20, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 20102.

Lincoln wrote a letter...”your Departments respectively”: AL to WHS and SPC, December 20, 1862, in CW, VI, p. 12.

”Seward comforts...deems a necessity”: Entry for December 23, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 205.

”Yes, Judge...end of my bag!”: AL, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 148.

”I have cheerfully...to your command”: WHS to AL, December 21, 1862, Lincoln Papers.

”come as soon as possible”: Entry for December 22, 1862, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.

”Will you allow me...than in your cabinet”: SPC to AL, December 20, 1862, Lincoln Papers.

When Chase received...return to the Treasury: SPC to AL, December 22, 1862, Lincoln Papers.

”Seward was feeling...had been for weeks”: Entry for December 23, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 205.

Seward magnanimously invited...Christmas Eve: SPC to FWS, December 24, 1862, reel 24, Chase Papers.

”a triumph over...drive him out”: JGN to TB, December 23, 1862, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

Chase declined...”his hospitality”: SPC to FWS, December 24, 1862, reel 24, Chase Papers.

”she regretted”...exception of Monty Blair: EBL to SPL, January 14, [1863], in Wartime Was.h.i.+ngton, ed. Laas, p. 231.

a visit to a Georgetown spiritualist...”had success”: Entry for January 1, 1863, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, pp. 60809.

”I do not now see...I put it through”: ”30 October 1863, Friday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 104.

CHAPTER 19: ”FIRE IN THE REAR”

a ”general air of doubt”: NYT, December 27, 1862.

”Will Lincoln's...n.o.body knows”: Entry for December 30, 1862, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 284.

As Frederick Dougla.s.s...give up ground: Dougla.s.s' Monthly (October 1862).

The final proclamation...”upon this act”: Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln's Emanc.i.p.ation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), pp. 17881, 25460 (quotes p. 260); entry for December 31, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 21011.