“night of horrors”: Entries for April 14, 1865, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 529.
“vicarious suffering”: FAS, in “Miscellaneous Fragments in Mrs. Seward’s Handwriting,” reel 197, Seward Papers.
“the largest…woman in America”: New York Independent, undated, in Seward family scrapbook, Seward House Foundation Historical Association, Inc., Library, Auburn, N.Y.
Fanny remained…tuberculosis: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 266.
Seward was inconsolable: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 417.
“Truly it may…mother and daughter”: Washington Republican, undated, in Seward family scrapbook, Seward House.
attempts to mediate…radicals in Congress: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 452.
“Seward’s Folly”: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 278.
spent his last years traveling: Ibid., pp. 290–91, 292–94; NYT, October 11, 1872.
Jenny asked…“Love one another”: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 296; Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, p. 508 (quote).
Thurlow Weed…wept openly: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 296.
Stanton’s remaining…asked for his resignation: Pratt, Stanton, p. 452; Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 583.
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. 1,063–64.
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. 637–38; 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, MoSHi.
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. 447–48.
physical condition weakened…depression: Ibid., pp. 444, 448–49.
“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. 297–98, 306–10, 320, 326–27, 348.
Frank Blair…intemperate denunciations: Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. I, ed. Allen Johnson (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927; 1964), pp. 333–34.
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. 576–77 (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.
Tad journeyed…“beyond his years”: NYTrib, July 17, 1871.
“compression of the heart”: Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 585.
“The modest and cordial…fantastic enterprises”: NYTrib, July 17, 1871.
“It is very hard…to the contrary”: Robert Todd Lincoln to Mary Harlan, quoted in Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 267.
erratic behavior…permanently estranged: Randall, Mary Lincoln, pp. 430–34.
virtual recluse…fulfilled at last: Ibid., pp. 442–43.