Inside Lincoln's White House In War Times

[Anita]

Gene, thanks your recommendation. I read this as a free book on line several years ago and agree with your review. I've been a fan. Do you think the lack of footnotes hurt his credibility as it did Carl Sandburg's?

Here's an depth review worth reading.

William O. Stoddard. Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln's Secretary. Edited by Michael Burlingame. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xxi + 226 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8032-9257-4.

Reviewed by Carey M. Roberts (Department of Social Sciences, Arkansas Tech University) Published on H-DC (April, 2002)
https://networks.h-net.org/node/28441/re...nd-reports

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This is from an article http://www.mrlincolnandfriends.org/the-s...-stoddard/

"Although Stoddard thought he worked hard, his colleague John Hay disagreed, describing Stoddard as “worthless. I can scarcely rely upon him for anything.”8 Historian Michael Michael Burlingame noted that Hay took frequent potshots at Stoddard in his letters to John G. Nicolay “Hay thought Stoddard asinine as well as stuffy. ‘Stod[dard] has been extensively advertising himself in the Western Press,’ he told Nicolay in August 1864. ‘His asininity which is kept a little dark under your shadow at Washington blooms & burgeons in the free air of the West.'”9 Stoddard himself was publicly laudatory of Hay in later sketches of the White House years written for the New York Citizen. He recalled that he was assigned to a White House room “in companionship with the versatile and brilliant Hay.”10 "