552 "otherwise certainly attain": Segal, Conversations, p. 361.

552 "opinions are known": David M. Silver, Lincoln's Supreme Court (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1956), pp. 207208.

552 "the rest hold back": Segal, Conversations, p. 361.

552 had given him: Kenneth A. Bernard, Lincoln and the Music of the Civil War (Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1966), pp. 278279.

552 "than do it."): Virginia Woodbury Fox, Diary, Dec. 10, 1864, Levi Woodbury MSS, LC.

552 "a reasonable objection": Undated memorandum of a conversation with AL, Lamon MSS, HEH.

553 "if not fearful": CW, 8:181.

553 "whole detached force": CW, 8:l48n.

553 "bales of cotton": W. T. Sherman to AL, Dec. 22, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

553 "a great light": CW, 8:182.

553 "any respect whatsoever": Congressional Globe, 38 Cong., 2 sess. (Dec. 15, 1864), pp. 5051.

553 Era of Good Feeling: Washington Daily National Intelligencer, Jan. 17, 1865.

554 "will of the majority": CW, 8:149.

554 "to a close": Segal, Conversations, pp. 362364.

554 "man in America": Fawn Brodie, Thaddeus Stevens: Scourge of the South (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1959), p. 204.

554 "in these matters": Nicolay and Hay, 10:85; Donald, Sumner, p. 194n.

554 influenced his change: Allan G. Bogue, The Earnest Men: Republicans of the Civil War Senate (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1981), p. 253n.

554 "all the evils": CW, 8:254.

555 "to be in it": CW, 8:248.

555 "they smelt Peace": J. M. Ashley to WHH, Nov. 23, 1866, HWC; Arlin Turner, "Elizabeth Peabody Visits Lincoln, February, 1865," New England Quarterly 48 (Mar. 1975): 119120.

555 was an armistice: Brooks D. Simpson, Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 18611868 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991), p. 73.

555 ending the war: Kirkland, The Peacemakers of 1864, pp. 218222, 236n.

556 "shall be adopted": CW, 8:151152.

556 "by Const.i.tutional Amendments": The best account of Singleton's expedition is in Randall, Lincoln the President, 4:330331.

556 "when Savannah falls": Blair's detailed memorandum of his visit to Richmond and his conversations with Jefferson Davis, to which the cataloguer has given the date of January 12, 1865, is in the Lincoln MSS, LC. For an excellent account of the background of Blair's mission, see Howard C. Westwood, "Lincoln and the Hampton Road Peace Conference," LH 81 (Winter 1979): 243256.