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emergency cabinet meeting: Welles diary, Dec. 19, 1862.

Do not … “resist this assault”: ibid.

“could not afford to lose”: Bates diary, Dec. 19, 1862.

the cabinet chattered: ibid.; Welles diary, Dec. 19, 1862.

touting candidates: Browning diary, Dec. 19, 1862; Bates diary, Dec. 20, 1862.

they were not alone: Fessenden,
The Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden,
Vol. 1, p. 243.

Lincoln then paused, looked at Chase: ibid., pp. 243–44.

“arraigned before a committee”: ibid., pp. 244–46.

Stanton … was “disgusted”: ibid., pp. 248–49.

Smith … “felt strongly tempted”: ibid.

“He lied”: Browning diary, Dec. 22, 1862.

Lincoln put in comments: Fessenden,
The Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden,
Vol. 1, pp. 244–46.

Recognize
and maintain:
ibid.

“Seward has seen fit to resign”: ibid., p. 248.

“all in a buz”: Bates diary, Dec. 20, 1862.

“slumped over one way”: Hay diary, Oct. 30, 1863.

to coax him back would tilt: Fessenden,
The Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden,
Vol. 1, pp. 247–48.

Welles’s mission: Welles diary, Dec. 20, 1862.

“‘Where is it?’”: ibid.

“the most serious governmental crisis”: Goodwin,
Team of Rivals,
p. 495.

“I do not now see”: Hay diary, Oct. 30, 1863.

“more firmly … in the saddle”: Nicolay and Hay,
Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. 6, p. 271.

“Now I can ride”:
RW,
p. 200.

“The war!”: French diary, Dec. 21, 1862.

Medill … cataloged the woes: quoted in Donald,
Lincoln,
p. 399.

Dahlgren waxed eloquent: Dahlgren diary, Dec. 16, 1862.

“impossibility of … so long a line”: Grant,
Memoirs and Selected Letters,
p. 289.

Order No. 11: Smith,
Grant,
pp. 224–26.

“the children of Israel”: Korn,
American Jewry and the Civil War,
p. 125.

Grant’s next lesson: Grant,
Memoirs and Selected Letters,
pp. 290–91.

“amazed at the … supplies”: ibid.

She enjoyed the shopping: Taft diary, Jan. 2, 1863.

“From this time until spring”: Mary Lincoln to William A. Newell, Dec. 16, 1862.

“Mrs. Laury, a spiritualist”: Browning diary, Jan. 1, 1863.

a letter to McCullough’s daughter:
CW,
Vol. 6, pp. 16–17.

West Virginia: ibid., pp. 26–28.

a cheer … in Minnesota: Cox,
Lincoln and the Sioux Uprising of 1862,
p. 192.

Ile à Vache: Guelzo,
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation,
pp. 223–24.

“he could not stop”:
RW,
p. 435.

“fraught with evil”: Browning diary, Dec. 31, 1862.

worked with his cabinet to refine: “Conversation with Hon. J. P. Usher, Wash[ingto]n Oct 8, 1878,” in
An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln,
pp. 66–67.

At the town of Murfreesboro: G. C. Kniffin, “The Battle of Stone’s River,” in
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,
Vol. 3, pp. 613–32.

highest proportional toll: McPherson,
Battle Cry of Freedom,
p. 582.

“check … to a dangerous sentiment”:
CW,
Vol. 6, pp. 424–25.

“I can never forget”: ibid.

EPILOGUE

“Your military skill is useless”:
CW,
Vol. 6, pp. 31–33.

“what do you intend doing?”: Guelzo,
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation,
p. 181.

“gem of my character”: quoted in Donald,
Lincoln,
pp. 87–88.

“the central act … knocked”:
RW,
pp. 90, 120.

be remembered forever: ibid., p. 413.

“Every sound appears a knell”:
CW,
Vol. 1, p. 379.

“my fondest hopes”:
RW,
p. 413.

“never be forgotten”: quoted in Guelzo,
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation,
p. 186.

“very smilingly”: Taft diary, Jan. 1, 1863.

a few small changes: Guelzo,
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation,
pp. 178–81.

a new flourish:
CW,
Vol. 6, p. 30.

Lincoln, proofreading carefully: Guelzo,
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation,
p. 181.

At the Seward mansion: Taft diary, Jan. 2, 1863.

The Welles home was quiet: Welles diary, Jan. 1, 1863.

“bright, cherub face”: ibid., Dec. 3, 1862.

“The character of the country”: ibid., Jan. 1, 1863.

“Oh, Mr. French!”: Randall,
Mary Lincoln,
p. 320.

looking “quite as well”: Taft diary, Jan. 1, 1863.

opinions already written: Simon,
Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney,
pp. 222, 245.

An early biographer, J. G. Holland: quoted in Herndon and Weik,
Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. 2, pp. 292–93.

Emancipation Proclamation, ready for his signature: Guelzo,
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation,
pp. 182–83.

“I never … felt more certain”:
RW,
p. 397.

carefully inscribed his name: An image of the signature was viewed at
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/images/emancipation_05.jpg
.

“The signature looks”:
RW,
p. 112.

Americans erupted in cheers: Guelzo,
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation,
pp. 183–86.

“Emancipation Meetings” … amens: Foreman,
A World on Fire,
pp. 395–97.

“The workingmen of Europe”:
CW,
Vol. 6, pp. 63–65.

“bloody, barbarous … scheme”: quoted in Guelzo,
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation,
pp. 187–88.

Vallandigham … Cox: McPherson,
Battle Cry of Freedom,
pp. 592–94.

“half his company gone”: Guelzo,
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation,
pp. 187–88.

“the people of … 1862”:
New-York Tribune,
Sept. 24, 1862.

a quarter of a million Rebel troops: Long,
The Civil War Day by Day,
p. 706.

“the Union is stronger”: Seward to Dayton, Dec. 1, 1862; Seward to Adams, Nov. 30, 1862.

the London
Spectator:
Foreman,
A World on Fire,
pp. 318–19.

“I can see that time coming”:
RW,
pp. 440–41.

bonds were selling at half: Nicolay and Hay,
Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. 10, p. 340.

“certainly is growing feeble”: French diary, Feb. 18, 1863.

richer in 1870: Nicolay and Hay,
Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. 10, p. 340.

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