FOOTNOTES:
[56] E. Corning & Co., of Albany, were dealers in stoves and hardware.
[57] House Report no. 2, 37th Congress, 2d Session, p. 390. Cummings reappears in Welles's Diary, near the close of Andrew Johnson's Administration, as a favored candidate for the office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The report of the Committee on Government Contracts had been forgotten or only vaguely remembered. Welles had a dim recollection that Cummings had a spotted record, and he warned Johnson against him. Seward indorsed him, however; said he was "a capital man for the place—no better could be found." (Diary of Gideon Wells, iii, 414.)
[58] Cong. Globe, February, 1862, p. 710.
[59] Cong. Globe, January. 1862, p. 208.
[60] Cong. Globe, April, 1862, p. 1841.
[61] Cong. Globe, February, 1862, p. 712.
[62] Lincoln and Men of War Time, p. 165.
[63] Dawes, Cong. Globe, April, 1862, p. 1841.
[64] Congressional Record, 43d Cong., 1st Sess., p. 3434.