Lincoln (170 page)
Authors: David Herbert Donald
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“for early reconstruction”:
Chase,
Diary,
p. 268.
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“do it badly”:
Seward,
Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman,
p. 256.
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bear further study:
Welles, “Lincoln and Johnson,” p. 526.
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“any future Cabinet”:
Ibid., pp. 526–527.
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“could not participate”:
Ibid., p. 526.
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“an indefinite shore”:
Welles added the last four words of this sentence to his diary later. Welles,
Diary,
2:282.
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“most of yours”:
Ibid., p. 283.
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signed more papers:
For a careful, detailed chronicle of the President’s activities, see Reck,
A. Lincoln: His Last 24 Hours.
593
“correspondingly exhilarating”:
Katherine Helm,
The True Story of Mary, Wife of Lincoln
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928), p. 253.
593
“been very miserable”:
Turner,
Mary Todd Lincoln,
pp. 283–285; WHH, interview with Man’ Lincoln, Sept. 5, 1866, HWC.
593
“in the morning”:
Isaac N. Arnold,
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
(Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1885), p. 431.
594
“can toward it”:
Benjamin P. Thomas and Harold M. Hyman,
Stanton: The Life and Times of
Lincoln’s Secretary of War
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962), p. 395; Bryan,
Great American Myth,
p. 137.
594
“great an exposure”:
Storey, “Dickens, Stanton, Sumner, and Storey,” p. 464.
594
“you with us”:
David Homer Bates,
Lincoln in the Telegraph Office
(New York: Century Co., 1907), pp. 366–367.
595
$2.50 each:
C. H. Martin, “Reminiscences of a Columbia Boy of the Assassination of President Lincoln,”
Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society
31 (June 3, 1927): 72.
595
“never-to-be-forgotten smiles”:
E. R. Shaw, “The Assassination of Lincoln,”
McClure’s Magazine
32 (Dec. 1908): 181–184.
595
above the stage:
For Alfred Waud’s contemporary sketch and precise measurements, see Robert H. Fowler,
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
(Conshohocken, Pa.: Eastern Acorn Press, 1984), p. 15.
595
“order of the President!”:
Furtwangler,
Assassin on Stage,
p. 104.
595
“witnessing his enjoyment”:
Bryan,
Great American Myth,
p. 176.
595
“thing about it”:
Randall,
Mary Lincoln,
p. 382.
596
“must be done”:
William Hanchett, “Booth’s Diary,”
JISHS
72 (Feb. 1979): 40.
596
elections in the North:
John C. Brennan, “Why the Attempt to Assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward?”
Surratt Courier
12 (Jan. 1987).
596
“taken at R[ichmon]d”:
Bryan,
Great American Myth,
p. 119.
596
“not to kill”:
Wilson,
John Wilkes Booth,
p. 97.
596
a superior officer:
Brennan, “Why the Attempt to Assassinate ... Seward?” p. 4.
597
“will justify me”:
Wilson,
John Wilkes Booth,
p. 107.
597
“for this end”:
Hanchett, “Booth’s Diary,” pp. 40–41.
597
“I had ever seen”:
Shaw, “The Assassination of Lincoln,” p. 185.
597
John Parker:
The whereabouts of Parker has been a subject of considerable controversy. The clearest statement of the evidence is in Champ Clark,
The Assassination: The Death of the President
(New York: Time-Life Books, 1987), pp. 82–83.
597
10:13
P.M.
:
This is the time that Otto Eisenschiml arrived at after much research and calculation. Eisenschiml,
The Case of A. L., Aged 56
(Chicago: Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, 1943), p. 13.
597
“him very weak”: Surratt Courier
12 (Nov. 1987): 2.
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“Sic semper tyrannis”: Since events moved so quickly, there was understandable controversy about what Booth said and when he said it. In his diary he claimed, “I shouted Sic semper
before
I fired.” Hanchett, “Booth’s Diary,” p. 40. Most witnesses agreed that he gave his shout after jumping to the stage. Some claimed that he also shouted, “The South is avenged.” James S. Knox to his father, Apr. 15, 1865, Lincoln MSS, LC.
597
“a bull frog”:
Reck, A.
Lincoln: His Last 24 Hours,
p. 107.
597
“shot the President!”:
Annie F. F. Wright, “The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln,”
Magazine of
History
9 (Feb. 1909): 113–114.
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President was dead:
Most of the details on Lincoln’s medical history in the following pages are taken from Dr. John K. Lattimer’s highly professional study
Kennedy and Lincoln: Medical and Ballistic Comparisons of Their Assassinations
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980). Esp. valuable is Dr. Leale’s report, pp. 28–32.
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“tendered their services”:
Ibid., p. 34.
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chance of recovery:
Most present-day medical experts agree with that judgment, but Dr. Richard A. R. Fraser, of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, has recently suggested that the bullet wound was not necessarily fatal and that it was the probing performed by Dr. Leale and Dr. Stone that did irreparable damage. UPI dispatch, Jan. 25, 1995, on the Internet.
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“any man could”:
Reck, A.
Lincoln: His Last 24 Hours,
p. 137.
598
her husbands side:
Mrs. Dixon’s letter, dated May 1, 1865, in
Surratt Society News
7 (Mar. 1982): 3.
598
“let her in again”:
Lattimer,
Kennedy and Lincoln,
p. 32.
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and barely alive:
For a graphic account of the attack on Seward, see Patricia Carley Johnson, ed., “Sensitivity and the Civil War: The Selected Diaries and Papers, 1858–1866, of Frances
Adeline [Fanny] Seward” (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Rochester, 1963), pp. 875–892.
599
“is no more!”:
Mrs. Dixon’s letter, in
Surratt Society News
7 (Mar. 1982): 4.
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manner removed it:
I have here closely followed A. F. Rockwell, “At the Death-bed of President Lincoln,”
Century Magazine
40 (June 1890): 311.
Index599
“to the ages”:
There has been controversy over just what Stanton said. Some witnesses reported “He belongs to the ages now,” “He now belongs to the Ages,” and “He is a man for the ages.” Bryan,
Great American Myth,
p. 189; Eisenschiml,
Why Was Lincoln Murdered?
pp. 482–485.
Abbott, Asa Townsend,
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abolitionism,
63
–64,
103
,
133
,
134
–37,
165
–68,
169
,
173
,
177
,
180
–81,
188
–189,
216
,
220
,
239
Garrison–Phillips feud and,
541
–42
mob violence and,
82
see also
Radical Republicans, slaves, slavery
Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.,
276
Aesop’s Fables,
30
–31
African Americans,
see
Emancipation Proclamation, Negro soldiers, Negro suffrage, race, slavery
Age of Reason
(Paine),
49
Albany Atlas and Argus,
284
Allen, Charles,
151
Allen, Robert,
160
Allison, John,
193
Alton riot,
82
Alton Telegraph,
61
Alton Weekly Courier,
191