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On 18 April 1861, assistant presidential secretary John Hay recorded in his diary the report of several women that "some young Virginian long-haired swaggering chivalrous of course ... and half a dozen others including a daredevil guerrilla from Richmond named Ficklin would do a thing within forty eight hours that would ring through the world.".
The women feared that the Virginian planned either to assassinate or to capture the president. Calling this a "harrowing communication," Hay continued his entry: "They went away and I went to the bedside of the Chief couche. I told him the yarn; he quietly grinned." This is but one of the dramatic entries in Hay's Civil War diary, presented here in a definitive edition by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger.
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Diaries, Friends and associates, History, Personal narratives, Statesmen, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Hay, john, 1838-1905, Lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, personal narratives, Hommes d'État, Journaux intimes, Récits personnels, Histoire, FriendshipPlaces
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Inside Lincoln's White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay
February 1, 1999, Southern Illinois University
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Inside Lincoln's White House: the complete Civil War diary of John Hay
1997, Southern Illinois University Press
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