Mrs. Lincoln's Rival (54 page)

I offer my sincere thanks to Denise Roy, Maria Massie, Liza Cassity, Christine Ball, Brian Tart, Kate Napolitano, and the outstanding sales teams at Dutton and Plume for their support of my work and their contributions to
Mrs. Lincoln’s Rival
. I appreciate the generous assistance of my first readers, Geraldine Neidenbach, Marty Chiaverini, and Brian Grover, whose comments and questions were, as always, insightful and helpful. I also thank Heather Neidenbach, Nic Neidenbach, Marlene and Len Chiaverini, and friends for their ongoing support and encouragement.

I am indebted to the Wisconsin Historical Society and their librarians and staff for maintaining the excellent archives I have come to rely upon in my work. The resources I consulted most often are David Homer Bates,
Lincoln in the Telegraph Office: Recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps During the Civil War
(New York: The Century Company, 1907); Thomas Graham Belden and Marva Robins Belden,
So Fell the Angels
(Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1956); Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger, eds.,
Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay
(Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997); Catherine Clinton,
Mrs. Lincoln: A Life
(New York: HarperCollins, 2009); Columbia Historical Society,
Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C.
Vol. 13 (Washington, D.C.: Columbia Historical Society, 1910); Daniel Mark Epstein,
The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage
(New York: Ballantine Books, 2008); Jennifer Fleischner,
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave
(New York: Broadway Books, 2003); Ernest B. Furgurson,
Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War
(New York: Knopf, 2004); James M. Goode,
Capital Losses: A Cultural History of Washington’s Destroyed Buildings
, second edition (Washington and London: Smithsonian Books, 2003); Doris Kearns Goodwin,
Team of Rivals
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005); Horace Greeley,
Proceedings of the First Three Republican National Conventions of 1856, 1860 and 1864
(Minneapolis, MN: Charles W. Johnson, 1893); Janet Chase Hoyt, “Setting Free a Race: How the Emancipation Proclamation Was Made,”
New York Tribune
,
February 22, 1893: 8; Janet Chase Hoyt, “Sherman and Chase: An Interview at Beaufort,”
New York Tribune
,
February 22, 1891: 16; Janet Chase Hoyt, “A Woman’s Memories: The Battle of Bull Run, General McDowell,”
New York Tribune
,
June 7, 1891: 16; Janet Chase Hoyt, “A Woman’s Memories: A Privateer, General Scott, Charles Sumner,”
New York Tribune
,
April 5, 1891: 16; Janet Chase Hoyt, “A Woman’s Memories: Washington in War Time,”
New York Tribune
,
March 8, 1891: 16; Virginia Jeans Laas, ed.,
Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee
(Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991); Peg A. Lamphier,
Kate Chase and William Sprague: Politics and Gender in a Civil War Marriage
(Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2003); Eba Anderson Lawton,
Major Robert Anderson and Fort Sumter 1861
(New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1911); James P. McClure, Peg A. Lamphier, and Erika M. Kreger, eds.,
Spur Up Your Pegasus: Family Letters of Salmon, Kate, and Nettie Chase, 1844–1873
(Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2009); John Niven,
Salmon P. Chase: A Biography
(New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995); John Niven et al., eds.,
The
Salmon P. Chase Papers Volumes 1–5
(Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1993); Mary Merwin Phelps,
Kate Chase, Dominant Daughter
(New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1935); Ishbel Ross,
Proud Kate: Portrait of an Ambitious Woman
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953); Carl Schurz,
The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz Volume 2 1852–1863
(London: John Murray, 1909); Frederick W. Seward,
Seward at Washington as Senator and Secretary of State: A Memoir of His Life, with Selections from His Letters, 1846–1861
(New York: Derby and Miller, 1891); Alice Hunt Sokoloff,
Kate Chase for the Defense
(New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1971); and Justin G. Turner and Linda Levitt Turner,
Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters
(New York: Knopf, 1972). Unfortunately, I found that most early biographies about Kate Chase were written with such obvious contempt for their subject that it was a challenge to wade through the snark and find the facts. I encourage readers interested in learning more about Kate Chase to refer to primary sources such as the great many letters the Chase family exchanged, and secondary sources from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

As always and most of all, I thank my husband, Marty, and my sons, Nicholas and Michael, for their enduring love, tireless support, and inspiring faith in me. You make everything worthwhile, and I could not have written this book without you.

Jennifer Chiaverini is the
New York Times
bestselling author of
Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker
and the Elm Creek Quilts series. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago, she lives with her husband and two sons in Madison, Wisconsin.

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