Part 168 (1/2)

Refusing to honor...removal order: George C. Gorham, Life and Public Services of Edwin M. Stanton, Vol. II (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, Riverside Press, 1899), p. 444.

”barricaded himself”: Pratt, Stanton, p. 452.

taking his meals in the department: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 595.

Tenure of Office Act: ”Tenure of Office Act,” in The Reader's Companion to American History, ed. Foner and Garraty, pp. 1,06364.

impeachment failed...submitted his resignation: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 608.

Grant nominated him...”only office”: Wolcott, ”Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 178.

short-lived...severe asthma attack: Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. IX, ed. Dumas Malone (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935; 1964), p. 520; Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, pp. 63738; Christopher Bates, ”Stanton, Edwin McMasters,” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 1852.

”I know that it is...he was then”: Robert Todd Lincoln to Edwin L. Stanton, quoted in Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 638.

close-knit family...Confederate Army: Cain, Lincoln's Attorney General, p. 330.

”it was in his social...death cannot sever”: Address by Colonel J. C. Broadhead, in ”Addresses by the Members of the St. Louis Bar on the Death of Edward Bates,” Bates Papers, Mos.h.i.+.

impeachment trial...resting with the Democrats: Blue, Salmon P. Chase, p. 285.

Kate serving...derailed his ambitions: Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. II, ed. Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929; 1958), p. 33.

switched his allegiance...to Horace Greeley: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 44748.

physical condition weakened...depression: Ibid., pp. 444, 44849.

”too much of an invalid...I were dead”: SPC to Richard C. Parsons, May 5, 1873, Chase Papers, Vol. V, p. 370.

Kate saw her marriage...died in poverty: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, pp. 29798, 30610, 320, 32627, 348.

Frank Blair...intemperate denunciations: Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. I, ed. Allen Johnson (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927; 1964), pp. 33334.

died from a fall: NYT, July 10, 1875.

”his physical vigor...of disposition”: Sun, Baltimore, Md., October 19, 1876.

Montgomery served...biography of Andrew Jackson: Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. I (1964 edn.), p. 340.

wrote a series...”herculean tasks”: Niven, Gideon Welles, pp. 57677 (quote p. 576).

perceptive diary...streptococcus infection: Ibid., pp. 578, 580.

remained friends...abridged version: Nicolay, Lincoln's Secretary, pp. 301, 342.

Shortly before he died...”overpowering melancholy”: William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1929), pp. 405, 407.

”each morning...as an impossibility”: MTL to EBL, August 25, 1865, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 268.

”precious Tad...gladly welcome death”: MTL to Alexander Williamson, [May 26, 1867], in ibid., p. 422.