1. train station to Willards; p. 9 Lincoln's constipation; Blue Mass; Washburne
2. David Herold
3. Seward and Lincoln to General Scott
4. Willard's hotel; MTL: Hellcat, AL: Ancient or Tycoon; Hay whorehouse list (several days to find out what it meant, p. 35)
5. Peace conference delegation, Salmon P. Chase; Lincoln dreaming, "Poor man," she said to her sleeping husband; and wondered if his dreams were now as terrifying as hers had been, unknown to him, for so many years
6. meeting with Seward, irrepressible conflict
7. Salmon Chase and Cooke brothers, Kate's role as son and daughter
8. Inauguration of 3/4/61; Albany plan (no democrats in cabinet); 65: concern over plug uglies (correct?); shaking hands when reading inaugural; compares Seward's draft to what Lincoln re-writes including "Mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, an patriot gtrave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." p. 68. 66: high voice carries (Hay's characterization, p. 66);
9. Hay at the Executive Mansion; Hay to Mrs. Wolfe's, bed of Marie-Jeanne who had also bedded David Herold; contains narrative of inauguration Ball, 74-75;
10. day after inaugural ball, p. 81; Kate and Hay; p. 89: introduces Elizabeth Keckley, MTL headaches; ends with Methodist preacher anecdote (I expect to go to Congress);
11. dialogue between Chase and Seward; Seward proposes one or other of them direct the cabinet;
12. Thompson's drug store at noon, Sunday April 14, discusses Seward's April 1, 1861 memo re: managing government; Lincoln confronts him, dissuades him from it, says he will not discuss it, gives it to Hay for safekeeping;
13. 129: plug uglies in Baltimore; Chase and income tax; Stanton defending Congressman Sickles (temporary insanity plea) when he killed Philip Barton Key, son of Francis Scott Key. (1859?); preceded by discussion of problems in Baltimore; 19th of April riot; [Ft. Sumter is 4/12/61]; introduction of Henry Wikoff of the Herald?; first mention of Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler's the Barricades of 1848 (p. 137). Mrs. Grimsley in the White House; ends on Hay's assignment to investigate President's wartime powers.
14. troops to washington, April 1861; Kate first sees Sprague (gov. R.I.)
15. 150: Habeas Corpus, 518 on the video? Painting of General Scott; Scott testified on treason at trial of Aaron Burr "who was no more guilty ..." p 152; MTL brother Ben Helm, goes south: p. 166. "and so her youth came to an end, once and for all.
16. David Herold and Annie Surratt; Mr. Wood and MTL; Wood thick as thieves with Watt, head grounds keeper; p 174: Ellsworth in state in the White House; Ellsworth worked in Lincoln's law office, p. 175; [May 23, 1861]; MTL collapse at questions re: death from Tad, Willie;
17. Salmon P. Chase, p. 177. definition of Habeus Corpus: body must be produced for trial, dates from 1679 act (Parliament); thou shalt have the body; Merryman of Baltimore; Lincoln's definition, Habeus Corpus can be suspended in time of rebellion or invasion (p. 183); P. 184: first mention of MTL as being insane: "But she was, at least, no longer insane." Hay and Nicolay debate whether or not it is an act to get attention from the Tycoon.
18. June 19, 1861; Chase and McDowell; McDowell Chase's choice; AL wanted to prevent the Confederate Congress from meeting at Richmond; Horace Greeley wanted march on Richmond, normally Lincoln would favor the opposite; gathering storm of unpaid bills; MTL to Jersey shore in August (Long Branch);
19. Onward to Richmond, p. 194; presence of Chevalier Wikoff, p. 195; 200, Wikoff: "Then not so idly, Wasburne wondered by Wikoff should have taken from the console Lincoln's only copy of the Message to Congress, whose contents no one but Lincoln and his secretaries knew.
20. David Herold; Rose Greenhow, the spy; failure at Manassas; send for McClellan; 223
Part II. 227-460, 12 chapters; begins xmas day, 1861; ends 1 year and 1 month after the death of Martin Van Buren
Part III, 467-657, 12 chapters;
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