Part 161 (1/2)
”it was always plain...judicious and appropriate”: Charles A. Dana, quoted in Hay, ”Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln,” Century (1890), p. 36.
CHAPTER 26: THE FINAL WEEKS
”he was in mind...all-sufficing strength”: Hay, ”Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln,” Century (1890), p. 37.
”a tired spot”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 161.
avoid the thousands...”Egyptian locusts”: JGN to TB, March 5, 1865, in Nicolay, With Lincoln in the White House, p. 175.
”The bare thought...crush me”: AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 276.
”they don't want...must see them”: AL, quoted in Hay, ”Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln,” Century (1890), p. 33.
”I think now...nineteen enemies”: AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 276.
hope that consul...wished to help: AL to WHS, March 6, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 337.
”at all times...of public trusts”: AL to Winfield Scott and others, March 1, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 327.
Fessenden had been a.s.sured...”with regret”: Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, pp. 365, 367 (quote).
”I desire gratefully...this great people”: William Pitt Fessenden to AL, quoted in Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, p. 366.
he was nervous...”never sorry”: Hugh McCulloch, Men and Measures of Half a Century: Sketches and Comments (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888; 1900), pp. 19394.
intended to replace Usher: ”Usher, John Palmer,” in Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, p. 317.
Hay was particularly adept...”his influence”: William Leete Stone, quoted by Michael Burlingame, in introduction to Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. xiii.
Nicolay functioned...and New York: Donald, ”We Are Lincoln Men,” p. 209.
Hay was chosen...reconstruction of Florida: ”Hay, John Milton,” in Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, p. 149.
had come to believe...”the hand of G.o.d”: JH to JGN, August 7, 1863, in Hay, At Lincoln's Side, p. 49 (quote); ”Hay, John Milton,” in Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, p. 149.
If the ”patent...blinking eyes”: JH to WHH, September 5, 1866, in HI, p. 332.
contemplating the purchase of a newspaper: Nicolay, Lincoln's Secretary, p. 224.
Mary had enlisted...Noah Brooks: Anson G. Henry to his wife, March 13, 1865, in Concerning Mr. Lincoln, comp. Pratt, p. 117.
tried to talk...any such discussion: JGN to TB, quoted in Nicolay, Lincoln's Secretary, p. 223.
Seward found...dissenting vote: NR, quoted in ibid., p. 224.
position paid...start married life: JGN to TB, March 12, 1865, quoted in ibid., p. 225.
Hay had recognized...”personal preeminence”: ”Hay's Reminiscences of the Civil War,” in Hay, At Lincoln's Side, p. 129.