Part 151 (1/2)

”came down from...all who met him”: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 217, 218.

”plain and substantial...hero of Vicksburg”: NYH, June 25, 1864.

Lincoln conversed...”three capital jokes”: Sylva.n.u.s Cadwallader, Three Years with Grant: As Recalled by War Correspondent Sylva.n.u.s Cadwallader, ed. Benjamin P. Thomas (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956), p. 232.

Grant suggested a ride...”met him on all sides”: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, p. 218 (quote); NR, June 24, 1864.

”a long and lingering look”: NYH, June 25, 1864.

pa.s.sed a brigade...”spontaneous outburst”: Cadwallader, Three Years with Grant, p. 233.

”and his voice...if he had inherited it”: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 22223.

General Grant took Lincoln aside...”but I will go in”: USG, quoted in entry for June 26, 1864, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 673.

”sunburnt and...position and good spirits”: ”23 June 1864, Thursday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 210.

regular Friday cabinet meeting...”the General and army”: Entry for June 24, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 58.

project his own renewed hope...”as a commander”: NYTrib, June 25, 1864.

”of the condition...terms of confidence”: Philadelphia Inquirer, June 25, 1864.

”Having hope...your goals”: Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence (New York: Bantam Books, 1995), p. 87. Goleman quotes C. R. Snyder in the third quote.

”We are today...within a year”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 343.

John Cisco...own presidential hopes: John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol. IX (New York: Century Co., 1917), p. 91.

Lincoln told Chase...for Maunsell Field: SPC to AL, June 27, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

Field was serving...”executive character”: Chittenden, Recollections of President Lincoln (1901 edn.), pp. 371, 374.

Chase awoke the morning after...to the Ephesians: Entry for June 28, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, pp. 46566.

”Stand therefore...righteousness”: Ephesians 6:14.

”I can not”...on another nominee: AL to SPC, June 28, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 41213.

Chase wrote an immediate request: SPC to AL, June 28, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

He telegraphed Cisco...three months: SPC to John J. Cisco, June 28, 1864, reel 34, Chase Papers; entry for June 28, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 467.

”The difficulty...open revolt”: AL to SPC, June 28, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 41314.

He began his letter...”my resignation”: John J. Cisco to SPC, June 28, 1864; SPC to AL, June 29, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

”I opened it...I did not long reflect”: AL, quoted in Field, Memories of Many Men, pp. 30102.

”You have been acting...I will go”: ”30 June 1864, Thursday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 213.