Part 162 (2/2)

”the flash of the cannon...in his that night”: Through Five Administrations: Reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook, Body-Guard to President Lincoln, ed. Margarita Spalding Gerry (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1910), p. 47.

broken through Petersburg's...and Richmond: Foote, The Civil War, Vol. III, pp. 87680.

Lincoln received...”12,000 prisoners”: AL to MTL, April 2, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 384.

Lincoln had moved...”a foot sideways”: AL, quoted in Porter, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War, pp. 28485.

”a comfortable...yard in front”: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, p. 449.

battlefields, littered...”lines of sadness”: Through Five Administrations, ed. Gerry, p. 48.

”dismounted in the street”...strolled by: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 450, 451.

Grant surmised...”and cut him off”: Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, p. 559.

back at City Point...”nightmare is gone”: AL, quoted in Porter, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War, p. 294.

in his customary pew...”retreating that evening”: Davis, Jefferson Davis, p. 603; Jefferson Davis to Varina Davis, quoted in Robert McElroy, Jefferson Davis: The Unreal and the Real (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1937; New York: Smithmark, 1995), p. 454 (quote).

”Thereupon...all eyes in the house”: NYTrib, April 8, 1865.

Summoning his cabinet...west to Danville: Davis, Jefferson Davis, p. 604.

small fire...”three-quarters of a mile”: Charles A. Dana to EMS, April 6, 1865, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XLVI, Part III, p. 594.

All the public buildings...were destroyed: NYTrib, April 8, 1865.

leaving only...the Spotswood Hotel: Charles A. Dana to EMS, April 6, 1865, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XLVI, Part III, p. 594.

”Here is...Richmond has fallen”: Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, pp. 36061.

”spread by a thousand mouths”: Star, April 3, 1865.

”almost by magic...fullness of their joy”: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 219.

”wept as children...vows of friends.h.i.+p”: NYH, April 4, 1865.

crowd called for Stanton...”his emotion”: Star, February 15, 1896.

”grat.i.tude to Almighty...with their blood”: EMS, quoted in Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 220.

”so overcome by emotion...speak continuously”: Ibid.

Seward...”Secretary of War as this”: WHS, quoted in ibid., p. 221.

crowd erupted...”loud and l.u.s.ty” cheers: NR, April 3, 1865.

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