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discreet New Englander...”political gossip”: Entry for August 31, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 131.

Times of London...”first cla.s.s power”: NR, January 7, 1865.

Bates had contemplated...”to your age”: Barton Bates to EB, May 13, 1864, Bates Papers, Mos.h.i.+.

prospect of going home...”G.o.d's blessing”: Entry for May 29, 1864, The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 371.

Bates believed...”as long as I live”: EB to AL, November 24, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

first months as Attorney General...military matters: Entry for December 31, 1861, The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, pp. 21819; entry for January 10, 1862, ibid., pp. 22326.

deliver a legal opinion...”and clothing”: EB to AL, July 14, 1864, OR, Ser. 3, Vol. IV, pp. 49093 (quote p. 493).

Abolitionists applauded: Entry for May 26, 1864, The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 371.

citizens.h.i.+p issue...of the United States: Frank J. Williams, ”Attorney General Bates and Attorney President Lincoln,” R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture, Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Ind., September 23, 2000, author's collection; Cain, Lincoln's Attorney General, pp. 22223.

”Though esteemed...const.i.tutional interpretation”: Daily Morning Chronicle, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., December 4, 1864, quoted in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 430.

reveals frustration...”no subordination”: Entry for October 1, 1861, ibid., p. 196.

General Butler...arrests in Norfolk: Entry for August 4, 1864, ibid., pp. 39394.

”chief fear...easy good nature”: Entry for February 13, 1864, ibid., p. 334.

troubled at the start...”sure to prevail”: EB, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 6869.

each of his colleagues...”affable and kind”: Entry for December 2, 1864, The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 429.

Bates left...”with regret”: Entry for November 30, 1864, ibid., p. 428.

forever connected...”when I am gone”: Poem, quoted in entry for October 13, 1864, ibid., p. 419.

”My Cabinet...would have to be heeded”: AL, quoted in t.i.tian J. Coffey, ”Lincoln and the Cabinet,” in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1909 edn.), p. 197.

Holt declined the offer...”personal character”: Joseph Holt to AL, December 1, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

”I appoint you...come on at once”: AL to James Speed, in CW, VIII, p. 126.

”Will leave tomorrow for Was.h.i.+ngton”: James Speed to AL, December 1, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

”I am a...everywhere forever”: James Speed, quoted in Gary Lee Williams, ”James and Joshua Speed: Lincoln's Kentucky Friends” (Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 1971), p. 137.

”We are less now but true”: James Speed to AL, November 25, 1864, quoted in ibid., p. 138.

”a man I know...ought to know him well”: AL, quoted in Coffey, ”Lincoln and the Cabinet,” in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1909 edn.), p. 197.

Had it been...”freely and publicly”: David Herbert Donald, ”We Are Lincoln Men”: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003), p. 38.

”You will find...by a big office”: AL, quoted in Coffey, ”Lincoln and the Cabinet,” in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1909 edn.), p. 197.