- Elisha Hunt Rhodes: This afternoon, seeing the general alone in the office, I stepped up to him and said, "General, I want to go home." "Want to go home, and for what?" he said. Unable to think of an answer, I blurted out. "I want to see my mother." "Is she sick?" he asked. "No," I replied, "I hope not." He asked me how long I had been away from home and if I was ever away for so long a time before. I told him I had been in the service for seven months and had never been away from home before.
- Narrator: Secretary Of State William H. Seward hoped to replace Lincoln. Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase wanted to replace Seward. Mary Todd told her husband to get rid of both of them. Instead, Lincoln fired War Secretary Simon P. Cameron, a Pennsylvania boss so corrupt said Lincoln, "The only thing he wouldn't steal was a red hot stove."
- Walt Whitman: April 11th, 1862. I firmly believe, that, before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday, science shall have the existence of mankind in his power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world. Henry Adams.