Part 146 (1/2)
He shared with the men...”guests of the nation”: NYT, December 29, 1863.
Lincoln invited Stanton...Point Lookout: AL to EMS, December 26, 1863, in CW, VII, p. 95 (quote); NYTrib, December 29, 1863.
He had heard that...Confederate strongholds: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 309; ”28 December 1863, Monday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 134.
”Oh! dying year!...brighter hopes dawn”: Entry for December 31, 1863, in Adam Gurowski, Diary: 1863'64'65, Vol. III. Burt Franklin: Research & Source Works #229 (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., 1866; New York: Burt Franklin, 1968), p. 57.
”a tall...polish of appearance”: Entry for February 24, 1861, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 76.
”sphere of civilization”: Entry for March 8, 1861, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 76.
no ”heroic qualities”: Entry for February 21, 1861, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 76.
”not equal...of his position”: Entry for August 16, 1861, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 76.
At a festive dinner...”to one great purpose”: Charles Francis Adams, quoted in NR, February 2, 1864.
”foremost American...in his time”: ”Lowell, James Russell,” in Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. VI, ed. Dumas Malone (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933), p. 458.
”Never did a President...still in wild water”: James Russell Lowell, ”The President's Policy,” North American Review 98 (January 1864), pp. 24143, 249, 25455.
”very excellent...over-much credit”: Entry for January 5, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 504.
CHAPTER 23: ”THERE'S A MAN IN IT!”
New Year's Day...scattered the clouds: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, pp. 27374 (quote); Star, January 1, 1864; NR, January 2, 1864.
”Murfreesboro...excel these”: NR, January 1, 1864.
”We have a right...weathered the gale”: NR, January 13, 1864.
”The instinct of all...danger is over”: Dispatch of January 18, 1864, in Stoddard, Dispatches from Lincoln's White House, p. 203.
the traditional New Year's reception: Entry for January 1, 1864, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 231; dispatch of January 4, 1864, in Stoddard, Dispatches from Lincoln's White House, p. 199.
”a human kaleidescope...pet.i.tioners”: NR, January 2, 1864.
”public-opinion baths... and duty”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 28182.
”European democrats...American a custom”: Dispatch of January 4, 1864, in Stoddard, Dispatches from Lincoln's White House, p. 199.
Lincoln ”appeared to be...word or two”: NR, January 2, 1864.
Mary Lincoln ”never looked better”...velvet dress: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, pp. 27475 (quote p. 275).
”We seem to have...cared about it”: FWS, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 207.
The winter social calendar...of cabinet officers: NR, January 19, 1864.