Part 167 (1/2)

At 1 a.m., Stanton telegraphed...”best detectives”: EMS to John H. Kennedy, April 15, 1865, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XLVI, Part III, p. 783.

”The wound is mortal...is now dying”: EMS to John A. Dix, April 15, 1865, 1:30 a.m., OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XLVI, Part III, p. 780.

”The President continues...shot the President”: Ibid., 4:10 a.m., p. 781.

Shortly after dawn...”death-struggle had begun”: Entry for April 14, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 288.

”As she entered”...sofa in the parlor: Taft, ”Abraham Lincoln's Last Hours,” Century 45 (1893), p. 635.

”the town clocks...be again resumed”: Field, Memories of Many Men, p. 325.

”Let us pray”...everyone present knelt: Leale to Butler, July 20, 1867, container 43, Butler Papers, DLC.

At 7:22 a.m.... ”belongs to the ages”: Donald, Lincoln, p. 599. As David Donald notes, witnesses thought theyheard several variations of Stanton's utterance, including ”He belongs to the ages now,” ”He now belongs to the Ages,” and ”He is a man for the ages.” Donald, Lincoln, p. 686, endnote for p. 599 beginning ”to the ages.”

”Oh, why did you not...he was dying”: NYH, April 16, 1865.

moans could be heard...taken to her carriage: Taft, ”Abraham Lincoln's Last Hours,” Century 45 (1893), p. 636; Field, Memories of Many Men, p. 326.

Stanton's ”coolness”...streamed down his cheeks: NYH, April 16, 1865.

”Stanton's grief...break down and weep bitterly”: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, p. 501.

”Not everyone knows...his honor and yours”: JH to EMS, July 26, 1865, in Hay, At Lincoln's Side, p. 106.

”Is he dead?...entire face was distorted”: Field, Memories of Many Men, p. 327.

walked to Seward's house...Blair and his father: Entry for April 15, 1865, Chase Papers, Vol. I, pp. 529, 530.

”with tearful eyes...of our side”: EBL to SPL, April 15, 1865, in Wartime Was.h.i.+ngton, ed. Laas, p. 495.

Richmond Whig... ”South has descended”: Richmond Whig, quoted in Robert S. Harper, Lincoln and the Press (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1951), p. 360.

St. Louis...comfortable study: Entry for January 27, 1865, The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 443.

”the astounding news...country and for myself”: Entry for April 15, 1865, in ibid., p. 473.

News of Lincoln's death...”sinking into his mind”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, pp. 45859 (quotes p. 459).

”The history of governments...confidence and regard”: ”Hay's Reminiscences of the Civil War,” in Hay, At Lincoln's Side, pp. 12829.

Flags remained...”the farewell march”: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, pp. 271 (quote), 273.

nearly two hundred thousand Union soldiers: Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, p. 185.

”Never in the history...shrill call of bugles”: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, pp. 27274.

”magnificent and imposing spectacle”: Entry for May 19, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 310.

”You see in these...half a dozen presidents”: EMS, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 288.