“The deluge . . . clamorous plaudits”: Ecarte, Missouri Democrat, August 11, 1860, B-JOUR 3–6.
“It is one of the truest”: Ecarte, Providence Journal, September 19, 1860, B-JOUR 9.
“to symbolize the indissoluble”: Newton Bateman, Abraham Lincoln: An Address (1899), in Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect, 21.
“I wish I could find”: Chapman, “The Boyhood of John Hay,” 452.
Nicolay readily took: B-AL, 651–52.
“great literary talent”: Weik, The Real Lincoln: A Portrait, 321.
“We can’t take . . . let Hay come”: WRT-L&L 1:87.
“a sea of perplexities”: N&H:AL 1:201.
“In many respects”: N&H:AL 1:201–02.
Chapter 3: Potomac Fever
“It is cowardly”: JH to Nora Perry, March 4, 1860, in Ticknor, ed., A Poet in Exile, 45.
“I never practiced”: JH to Adelbert Hay, October 20, 1898, JH-LC.
“I shall never enjoy”: JH to Mrs. A. E. Edwards, November 29, 1860, in B-CORR 3.
“I believe he is strongly”: Ecarte, Missouri Democrat, January 11, 1861, B-JOUR 18.
“Mr. Lincoln will not”: Ecarte, Missouri Democrat, January 29, 1861, B-JOUR 21.
Lincoln would deliver: Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect, 389–90.
“If the reader could”: “From our correspondent,” New York World, February 21, 1861, B-JOUR 35.
“as soft and sympathetic . . . captivated and entranced”: “From Our Special Correspondent,” New York World, February 25, 1861, B-JOUR 40.
“an organized plan . . . lose them all”: “From our own correspondent”: New York World, February 27, 1861, B-JOUR 44.
“Tomorrow we enter”: JH to Annie E. Johnston, February 22, 1861, JH-BU.
“in broad avenues . . . Appian Way”: “From Our Special Correspondent,” New York World, March 4, 1861, B-JOUR 48–49.
“a congerie of hovels . . . from the terrace”: “From Our Special Correspondent,” New York World, March 4, 1861, B-JOUR 48–49.
“I waited with boyish”: JH, “The Heroic Age in Washington,” galley proof of lecture, c. 1871, JH-Brown; also B-CORR 119.
“seedy . . . unsuccessful hotel”: Leech, Reveille in Washington, 6; Baker, “The Lincoln White House,” 45, 47; Rietveld, “The Lincoln White House Community,” 20–21.
“We have very pleasant”: JGN to Therena Bates, March 7, 1861, B-NIC 29–30.
“the intolerable press”: JH to William Leete Stone, March 15, 1861, B-CORR 5.
“The President is affable . . . grim Cerberus”: Noah Brooks, “How They Live in the White House,” November 7, 1863, in Burlingame, ed., Lincoln Observed, 83.
“sour and crusty” . . . bought him leniency: Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, 57.
“[John Hay] might have”: Nicolay, Lincoln’s Secretary, 85.
“They don’t want much”: Henry Wilson to William Herndon, May 30, 1867, in Wilson and Davis, eds., Lincoln’s Informants, 562.
“letting lodgings”: N&H:AL 4:69.
“The White House is”: JH diary, April 18, 1861, B&E 1.
“I have seen”: JH diary, April 24, 1861, B&E 10.
“and pay her”: JH diary, April 25, 1861, B&E 11.
“He always seemed”: JH, “Ellsworth,” Atlantic Monthly 8 (July 1861), 119–25.
“When Ellsworth”: JH to Mrs. James H. Coggeshall, August 12, 1861, A College Friendship, 61.
“[m]iraculous in meanness”: Missouri Republican, n.d., B-JOUR 286.
“blear caravanserai . . . air at once”: “From Our Special Correspondent,” New York World, March 4, 1861, B-JOUR 49–50.
“the brains of society”: JGN to Therena Bates, June 30, 1861, B-NIC 45.
“ ‘Those light at heart’ ”: “From our own correspondent,” New York World, August 19, 1861, B-JOUR 95.
“O strong, free”: JH, “Northward,” scrapbook of Civil War poems, JH-BU.
“I am getting along”: JH to JGN, April 9, 1862, B-CORR 20.
“the crumbs of official”: N&H:AL 4:68.
a letter of introduction: John W. Starr, “Lincoln and the Office Seekers,” typescript, 1936, quoted in B-NIC 231–32.
Letters arrived: Stoddard, Inside the White House, 14.
“the rant and drivel”: Ibid., 157.
“statuesque”: Stoddard, “Memoirs,” Detroit Public Library, in Burlingame, intro. to Stoddard, Inside the White House, xii.
“quick witted,” “a born diplomat”: Stoddard, Inside the White House, 57; Stoddard, Lincoln’s Third Secretary, 91.
“almost boyish . . . far better”: Stoddard, Inside the White House, 151.
“Ah me!”: “From our own correspondent,” New York World, August 19, 1861, B-JOUR 97.
“I think the mug”: JH to Mrs. A. E. Edwards, October 12, 1861, B-COUR 13.
“With the ushering”: “From our own correspondent,” New York World, July 24, 1861, B-JOUR 78.
“shipwreck of our”: New York Tribune, July 23, 1861, B-AL 1:185.
“the defeat was not”: “From our own correspondent,” New York World, July 24, 1861, B-JOUR 76.
“There is nothing”: JH, “The Heroic Age in Washington.”
also a conservative . . . “might please me”: Sears, George B. McClellan, 58–59, 95.
“The ghosts of twenty”: JH to JGN, June 20, 1864, B-JOUR 85.
“imperious”: JH diary, August 28, 1861, B&E 24.
“born leader”: Missouri Republican, October 13, 1861, B-JOUR 101.
“seemed very hopeful . . . no plan”: JH diary, October 22, 1861, B&E 27–28.
“I can do it all”: JH diary, November 1, 1861, B&E 30.
“I wish to record”: JH diary, November 13, 1861, B&E 32.
“[I]t is ill”: Missouri Republican, December 17, 1861, B-JOUR 162–63.
“slows,” “idiot,” “baboon”: Sears, George B. McClellan, 338, 103, 132.
“weak, vacillating”: New York Tribune, December 23, 1881, in Monteiro, “John Hay and the Union Generals,” 51.
“long mismanagement”: N&H:AL 6:193.
“I went with him”: JH diary, August 23, 1863, B&E 75–76.
“short shirt hanging”: JH diary, April 30, 1864, B&E 194.
“What a man”: JH diary, April 30, 1864, B&E 194.
“He was one”: JH, “Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln,” 34.
“all one bubble . . . Nobody can tell”: Stoddard, Lincoln’s Third Secretary, 166–67.
“laughed through his term”: JH diary, November 18, 1863, B&E 112; Nicolay, Lincoln’s Secretary, 85: “It was said that he ‘laughed through the war.’ But he never laughed at it.”
“mourning around”: Stoddard, Lincoln’s Third Secretary, 153.
“butcher’s day”: Ibid., 170.
“I was amused . . . to shoot them”: JH diary, July 18, 1863, B&E 64.
“At about 5 o’clock”: JGN journal, February 20, 1862, B-NIC 71.
“With the fire”: N&H:AL 10:355.
“the institution of slavery . . . or all the other”: Foner, The Fiery Trial, 25, 99.
“to conserve and protect . . . storm-rent republic”: Missouri Republican, May 23, 1862, B-JOUR 264–65.
“There was onset”: N&H:AL 5:325.
“you must act”: Sears, George B. McClellan, 178.
“[T]he little Napoleon”: JH to JGN, April 9, 1862, B-CORR 20.
“should not be allowed”: Guelzo, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, 118; Sears, George B. McClellan, 227–28.
“God will yet foil”: Sears, George B. McClellan, 236–37.
“will not conserve”: JH to Mary Jay, July 20, 1862, B-CORR 23.
“Both [extremes are]”: Missouri Republican, July 21, 1862, B-JOUR 284–85.
“that all men could”: N&H:AL 6:153.
“even when you cease”: Foner, The Fiery Trial, 224.
“general impression . . . of old houses”: Missouri Republican, June 27, 1862, B-JOUR 274.
“seedy gentility”: Ibid.
Lincoln invited discussion: Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 465–68; Guelzo, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, 134–37.
“[A]bout Eight . . . people now”: JH diary, September 1, 1862, B&E 37–38.
“McClellan’s bodyguard”: N&H:AL 6:175.
“Again I have been”: Sears, George B. McClellan, 263.
“Mr. Lincoln says”: Stoddard, Lincoln’s Third Secretary, 169.
“If anyone tried”: JH, “The Heroic Age in Washington.”
“If I could save”: N&H:AL 6:153.
“What good would”: Basler et al., eds., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln 5:420.
“commenced fur to pound”: Artemus Ward, “High-Handed Outrage at Utica,” in Ward, His Works, Complete (1877), 34.
“a club”: B-AL 2:409.
an act of national suicide: B-AL 2:15.
“accursed doctrine”: Sears, George B. McClellan, 324.
“touched neither justice”: B-AL 2:409.
“There was no doubt”: Missouri Republican, September 29, 1862, B-JOUR 312.
“I shall make no attempt”: B-AL 2:415.
“the Government [was] done”: Missouri Republican, September 26, 1862, B-JOUR 311.
“They all seemed”: JH diary, September 24, 1862, B&E 41.
“I have been shaking”: Carpenter, Six Months in the White House, 269–70.
Chapter 4: Bolts of War
“a fixed thing”: Orville Browning diary, January 19, 1863, B-AL 2:478.
“stuck in the mud . . . hope in patience”: JGN to Therena Bates, February 8 and January 15, 1863, B-NIC 103–04.
“The war seems”: JH to Adam Badeau, January 9, 1863, B-CORR 29–30.
“I want my abolition”: JH to JGN, April 8, 1863, B-CORR 33.
“I hope . . . that due honor”: JH to AL, April 10, 1863, B-CORR 35–36.
“I shall never cease . . . than I do now”: JH to Mrs. Charles Hay, April 23, 1863, B-CORR 38.
“The air is like June”: JH to JGN, April 8, 1863, B-CORR 33.
“Linkum” . . . “No man see Linkum”: JH, “The Heroic Age in Washington,” JH-BU.
“It is the only thing”: JH to JGN, May 1, 1863, B-CORR 39.
“The soil is almost”: JH to John Hay (grandfather), May 2, 1863, B-CORR 40.
“As we sat”: JH to JGN, May 1, 1863, B-CORR 40.
So enthralled was he: Reid, After the War, 171–72.
“There is positively”: JH to JGN, May 24, 1863, B-CORR 42.
“vacillating and purposeless”: N&H:AL 7:107.
“Had a thunderbolt”: Burlingame, ed., Lincoln Observed, 50.
“the darkest day”: Stoddard, Lincoln’s Third Secretary, 173.
“All accounts agree”: New York Times, May 12, 1863, in Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 521.
“We need not”: AL 7:109–10.
“tall, thin, reserved”: N&H:AL 7:226.
“[T]hese two formidable”: N&H:AL 7:234.
“No sight so beautiful”: N&H:AL 7:263.
“gave the last full measure of devotion”: Basler, et al., eds., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln 7:19.
“There were still”: N&H:AL 7:309.
“The President seemed”: JH diary, July 11, 1863, B&E 61.
“ ‘Our Army held’ ”: JH diary, July 19, 1863, B&E 64–65.
“The Tycoon is in fine”: JH to JGN, August 7, 1863, B-CORR 49.
“Lincoln was, as usual”: N&H:AL 5:226.
“If I had gone”: JH diary, July 15, 1863, B&E 63.
“were always clearer”: N&H:AL 5:402.
“keep his fingers . . . equally firm”: JH to JGN, September 11, 1863, B-CORR 54.
“I have to a great”: JH to Charles Halpine, August 14, 1863, B-CORR 51.
“had a fearful orgie”: JH to JGN, July 18, 1863, B-CORR 45.
“unfit for family”: JH to Charles Halpine, November 22, 1863, B-CORR 68.
“In eighteen hundred”: AL, “Lee’s Preliminary Report,” unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook of Civil War poems, JH-BU; see also Basler, et al., eds., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Supplement 1:194 and B&E 306.
“the Hell-Cat”: JH to JGN, April 5, 1862, B-CORR 19.
“Madame has mounted”: JH to JGN, April 4, 1862, B-CORR 19.
“the powers at the other end”: JGN to JH, January 18, 1864, B-NIC 124.
“domestic troubles”: Orville H. Browning to JGN, June 17, 1875, in Burlingame, ed., An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln, 3.
“The devil is abroad . . . more Hellcatical”: JH to JGN, April 5 and 9, 1862, B-CORR 19–20.
“some of the best . . . Nico & I”: JH diary, November 8, 1863, B&E 109.
“J. Wilkes Booth was doing”: JH diary, November 9, 1863, B&E 110.
“and drank a good deal”: JH diary, November 11, 1863, B&E 111.
“said half a dozen” . . . no one got much rest: JH diary, November 18, 1863, B&E 112.
“I got a beast”: JH diary, November 19, 1863, B&E 113.
Everett spoke “perfectly”: Ibid.
“The world will little”: Basler, et al., eds., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, 7:19.
“[T]he President in a firm”: JH diary, November 19, 1863, B&E 113.
“the rebel power is”: JH diary, August 9, 1863, B&E 70.
“to inaugurate measures”: Nulty, Confederate Florida, 74.
“pretty warm . . . I made a bad dodge”: JH diary, February 1 and 2, 1864, B&E 151–52.
“it was not the President’s”: JH diary, January 20, 1864, B&E 145.
“Opened my book”: JH diary, February 6, 1864, B&E 154.
“I have the best”: JH to AL, February 8, 1864, B-CORR 76.
“a lot of stragglers”: Joseph Hawley to Charles Dudley Warner, March 4, 1864, in Arthur L. Shipman, “Letters of Joseph R. Hawley,” typescript, 1929, Connecticut Historical Society, in B-CORR 246.
“In [the] middle”: JH diary, February 18, 1864, B&E 167–68.
“The fighting on both . . . their ranks”: JH to JGN, February 23, 1864, B-CORR 77.
“unsteady and queer”: JH diary, February 21, 1864, B&E 169.
“Executive intermeddling . . . one million of dollars”: New York Herald, February 23, 1864.
“brigades of our brave”: New York Herald, March 1, 1864.
“I can’t think of leaving”: JH to JGN, February 23, 1864, B-CORR 78.
“would not give us”: JH diary, March 3, 1864, B&E 173.
disinterested or “unscrupulous scamps”: JH diary, March 8, 1864, B&E 177.
“[T]he Tycoon never”: JH to Charles Halpine, April 13, 1864, B-CORR 80.
“a quiet, self-possessed”: JH diary, March 27, 1864, B&E 185.
“The primeval forest”: N&H:AL 10:352.
“Men were killed”: N&H:AL 8:380–81.
“mutual slaughter”: N&H:AL 8:360.
“The President thinks very”: JH diary, May 9, 1864, B&E 195.
“The President is cheerful”: JGN to Therena Bates, May 15, 1864, B-NIC 141.
“I have never been”: Basler, et al., eds., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, 7:395–96.
“He was in the Fort”: JH diary, July 11, 1864, B&E 221.
“The President is in very”: Ibid.
“our bleeding, bankrupt”: Horace Greeley to AL, July 7, 1864, B-AL 2:669.
“yellow hand bag”: “From our own correspondent,” New York World, February 19, 1861, B-JOUR 32.
“I do say that a frank”: Horace Greeley to AL, July 7, 1864, N&H:AL 9:187.
“If you can find”: N&H:AL 9:187–88.
“abused & blackguarded”: JH diary, c. July 21, 1864, B&E 224.
“propose terms which”: Ibid., 224–25.
“To whom it may”: N&H:AL 9:192.
“tea & toasting”: JH diary, c. July 21, 1864, B&E 224.
“a seedy looking rebel . . . & false hair”: Ibid.
“half-witted adventurer”: Ibid., 229.
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p; “rude withdrawal . . . civilization of the country”: N&H:AL 9:194.
“Copperheads to get”: Joseph Medill to JH, August 10, 1864, JH-BU (italics in original).
“The damned scoundrel”: JH to JGN, August 25, 1864, B-CORR 91.
“half statements”: N&H:AL 9:199.
“in some respects Mr. Greeley”: New York Times, December 28, 1882, in B-AL 2:671.
“peculiarities of caprice”: N&H:AL 6:84.
“almost the condition”: JGN to Therena Bates, August 28, 1864, B-NIC 153.
“I lose my temper”: JH to JGN, August 25, 1864, B-CORR 92.
“four years of failure”: B-AL 2:681.
“immediate efforts . . . Federal Union”: Sears, George B. McClellan, 372–73.
“the surrender platform . . . The Lord preserve”: JGN to Therena Bates, September 4, 1864, B-NIC 157.
“From the moment”: N&H:AL 9:351.
“I shall fight like”: JGN to AL, August 30, 1864, B-NIC 155.
“with the steady pace”: N&H:AL 10:156.
“con amore”: JH diary, October 11, 1864, B&E 239.
“The night was rainy . . . past against him”: JH diary, November 8, 1864, B&E 244–45.
“awkwardly and hospitably”: Ibid., 246.
“rolling himself up”: Ibid.
“he who is most . . . any man’s bosom”: N&H:AL 9:380–81.
“[n]ot very graceful . . . after the fact”: JH diary, November 11, 1864, B&E 248.
“At first we tried”: JH to William Herndon, September 5, 1866, in Wilson and Davis, eds., Herndon’s Informants, 331.
“Colonel Hay imitated”: Stoddard, Inside the White House, 159.
“the best specimen”: Burlingame, “The Authorship of the Bixby Letter,” B-CORR 171.
“I have been shown”: Basler, et al., eds., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln 8:116–17.
“a piece of the American”: Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, 4 vols. (1939), 3:669.
In the end . . . seldom in Lincoln’s: Burlingame, “The Authorship of the Bixby Letter,” 169–84.
“The more [Lincoln’s]”: N&H:AL 10:352.
“From the hour . . . plainly declining”: N&H:AL 10:148, 152–53.
“common little wall tent . . . them this winter”: JH diary, November 16, 1864, B&E 250–51.
“The Anaconda is beginning . . . the great event”: JGN to Therena Bates, December 16 and 18, 1864, B-NIC, 167–68.
“We are like whalers”: N&H:AL 10:74.
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