“his face was…ever looked upon”: Joseph Wilson Fifer, quoted in Rufus Rockwell Wilson,Intimate Memories of Lincoln(Elmira, N.Y.: Primavera Press, 1945), p. 155.
“eyes would sparkle…than his”: Jonathan Birch, “A Student Who Was Aided by Mr. Lincoln,” in Wilson, Intimate Memories of Lincoln, p. 105. Ethan Allen/George Washington story: Abner Y. Ellis statement, January 23, 1866, in HI, p. 174.
“Well, B…. as a man ought to want”: “Recollections of Mr. McCormick,” in Wilson,Intimate Memories of Lincoln, p. 251 (quote); Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, p. 86. Holzer identifies “B.” as Mayson Brayman.
the long evenings Lincoln spent at Seward’s: Hendrick, Lincoln’s WarCabinet, p. 186. “My friend…churchwarden!”: Wilson, IntimateMemories of Lincoln, p. 422.
The day before…“half of his speech”: James Speed quoted in John G. Nicolay, “Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address,” Century 47 (February 1894), p. 597. Various accounts suggest…“a makeshift desk”: George D. Gitt, quoted in Wilson, Intimate Memories of Lincoln, p. 476.
An audience…between Everett and Seward: Klement, “The Ten Who Sat,” Lincoln Herald (1985), p. 106. “leaned from one side…of his right hand”: Gitt, quoted in Wilson, Intimate Memories of Lincoln, p. 478. Another member…to his pocket: Monaghan, Diplomat in Carpet Slippers, p. 341.
“flutter and motion…an empty house”: Gitt, quoted in Wilson, IntimateMemories of Lincoln, p. 478. steel-rimmed spectacles…at his pages: Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. II, p. 468. “He had spent…supreme principle”: Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg, p. 120.
“the assemblage…there came applause”: Gitt, quoted in Wilson,Intimate Memories of Lincoln, p. 479. he turned to Ward Lamon…“disappointed”: Lamon, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, p. 173.
Henry Wilson, “Jeremiah S. Black and Edwin M. Stanton,”Atlantic Monthly 26 (October 1870), pp. 469–70.
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