TY - BOOK AU - Hay,John AU - Burlingame,Michael AU - Ettlinger,John R.T. TI - Inside Lincoln's White House: the complete Civil War diary of John Hay SN - 0585106584 AV - E664.H41 A3 1999eb U1 - 973.7/092 21 PY - 1999///, �1997 CY - Carbondale PB - Southern Illinois University Press KW - Hay, John, KW - Lincoln, Abraham, KW - Statesmen KW - United States KW - Diaries KW - HISTORY KW - bisacsh KW - Friendship KW - fast KW - History KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Personal narratives KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-369) and index; Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' Introduction -- 1. 1861 -- 2. 1862 -- 3. 1863 -- 4. 1864 -- Appendix: Speech to the Citizents of Florida -- Notes -- Index -- Author Bio -- Back Cover N2 - 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 couch�e UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=11589 ER -