Part 156 (1/2)

”a quarter-million”...deposit in their hometowns: William C. Davis, Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln became Father to an Army and a Nation (New York: Free Press, 1999), pp. 214 (quote), 211.

had wired General Sherman...”no sense, an order”: AL to William T. Sherman, September 19, 1864, in CW, VIII, p. 11.

Stanton followed up...”re-election of Mr. Lincoln”: Dana, Recollections of the Civil War (1963 edn.), p. 227.

Weed alerted...New Yorkers ready to vote: TW to FWS, October 10, 1864, reel 85, Seward Papers.

Lincoln asked Welles...”to gather votes”: Entry for October 11, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 175.

”I would rather be...elected without it”: Ida M. Tarbell, A Reporter for Lincoln: Story of Henry E. Wing, Soldier and Newspaperman (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927), p. 70.

”before this morning's...ceaseless strife”: NYT, November 8, 1864.

”dark and rainy...entirely alone”: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 195.

the tenth time...beginning of the country: WHS, ”Perseverance in War. Auburn, November 7, 1864,” in Works of William H. Seward, Vol. V, p. 505.

Fessenden was in New York...with a fever: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 195; Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 385.

”I am just enough...ofTad's quick-wittedness”: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 196.

As the clock struck...a supper of fried oysters: ”8 November 1864, Tuesday” in Inside Lincoln's White House, pp. 24346.

Lincoln's victory was a.s.sured...separated by about 400,000 votes: Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, p. 354.

the results were far better...of U.S. senators: Zornow, Lincoln & the Party Divided, p. 198.

It was after 2 a.m.... ”tops of their voices”: Pratt, Stanton, p. 391.

”the verdict of the people...no dispute”: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 197.

the soldier vote...seven out of every ten soldiers: Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, p. 354.

the Confederacy was obviously...Napoleon would win: Davis, Lincoln's Men, p. 210.

”The men had come...the term implied”: Corporal Leander Stillwell, quoted in ibid., p. 226.

CHAPTER 25: ”A SACRED EFFORT”

immense crowd...second-floor window: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 200.

”undesirable strife...a possibility”: AL, ”Response to a Serenade,” November 10, 1864, in CW, VIII, p. 101.

”in an exceedingly...frame of mind”: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 200.

”we will all come...United States”: WHS, ”The a.s.surance of Victory,” November 10, 1864, Works of William H. Seward, Vol. V, pp. 51314.

”I advise you...my foreign relations”: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, pp. 20001.