Part 134 (1/2)

”That is just such...man who wrote it”: Joseph Hooker, quoted in Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C. in Lincoln's Time, p. 57.

Mary's curiosity...”pleasant to her”: NYH, April 10, 1863 (quote); Star, April 7, 1863; Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 150.

reported badinage between...”'sort of rebel'”: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C. in Lincoln's Time, p. 59.

Stormy weather...”shafts of wit”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 150; NYH, April 10, 1863 (quote).

The roar of artillery...”among them”: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 53; NYH, April 11, 1863; Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 153 (quote).

his gray cloak...faithfully by his side: Brooks, ”A Boy in the White House,” St. Nicholas (1882), p. 62.

”And thereby hangs...folds of the banners”: NYH, April 11, 1863.

At the review of the infantry...”far away”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, pp. 154, 15859 (quote).

he extended his visit: Ibid., p. 161.

”the former stood...turn their backs”: NYH, April 10, 1863.

rebel camps across the river...stars and bars: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, pp. 15556.

Union pickets...”belonging to friendly armies”: Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 162 (first quote); NYH, April 10, 1863 (last quote).

a Confederate officer...”politely and retired”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 156.

”It was a saddening...should arrive”: Ibid., pp. 15354.

issued one final directive...all your men”: AL, quoted in Couch, ”Sumner's 'Right Grand Division,'” in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. III, Pt. I, p. 120.

boarded the Carrie Martin...”flags displayed”: NYH, April 12, 1863.

were defending James S. Pleasants...”very bitter”: EBL to SPL, April 16, 1863, in Wartime Was.h.i.+ngton, ed. Laas, p. 259 (quotes); Court-martial file of James Snowden Pleasants, file MM-15, entry 15, RG 153, DNA; Sun, Baltimore, Md., April 9, 1863.

sent the Peterhoff...to the Navy Department: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 35051; Monaghan, Diplomat in Carpet Slippers, pp. 30304.

led to rumors of...”from the real question”: Entries for April 2328, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 28587 (quotes p. 287).

Montgomery Blair also sided...”in the Cabinet”: Entry for April 17, 1863, ibid., pp. 27475 (quote p. 275).

”I feel that...my present position”: SPC to AL, March 2, 1863, Lincoln Papers.

This squabble was provoked...”my resignation”: SPC to AL, May 11, 1863, Lincoln Papers.

”Chase's feelings were hurt”: AL to Anson G. Henry, May 13, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 215.

he called at Chase's...”I finally succeeded”: Field, Memories of Many Men, p. 303.

$45 million in bonds...”as do ours”: NYT, May 3, 1863.