Kamm, "The Civil War Career of Thomas A. Scott," 69-71.
Kamm, "The Civil War Career of Thomas A. Scott," 69-71.
Weber, Northern Railroads, 128-130.
The hot stove joke was a common one in the Gilded Age.
Harry James Brown and Frederick D. Williams (eds), The Diary of James A. Garfield. 4 volumes (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1967-1981), Dec. 7, 1873, 2: 256.
Kamm, "The Civil War Career of Thomas A. Scott," 122-24, 130-31.
Weber, Northern Railroads, 130.
Maury Klein, History of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (New York: Macmillan, 1972), 41-43.