Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [568]
The telegraph line…Telegraph Corps: Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, p. 88.
“a small three-storied”…description of headquarters: Entry for July 19, 1861, in Russell, My Diary North and South, p. 431.
“his confidence…President left”: JGN to TB, July 21, 1861, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
“the Union Army…victory”: Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 598.
Bates confided his anxiety: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, p. 153; entry for July 21, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 55.
“the first time he ever left home”: Entry for July 5, 1861, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 188.
a new intimacy with his president: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, p. 153.
“A sudden swoop…behind them”: Edmund C. Stedman, The Battle of Bull Run (New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1861), p. 32.
“never stopped…New-York”: Janet Chase Hoyt, “A Woman’s Memories,” NYTrib, June 7, 1891.
“Army wagons…sights and sounds”: Stedman, The Battle of Bull Run, p. 35.
“General McDowell’s…of the Army”: Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 598.
“a terribly frightened…to Gen. Scott’s”: JGN to TB, July 21, 1861, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
“He listened in silence…army headquarters”: Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. IV, pp. 353–54.
“Oh what a sad…sabbath been”: EBL to SPL, July 21, 1861, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 65.
death of James Cameron: “Cameron, James (?–1861),” in Stewart Sifakis, Who Was Who in the Union (New York: Facts on File, 1988), p. 63; Nicolay, Outbreak of Rebellion, p. 214.
“I loved my brother…of his duty”: Simon Cameron to SPC, July 21, 1861, reel 16, Chase Papers.
“Every thing…to the field”: WHS to family, July 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, pp. 598–99.
the returning soldiers…“at this juncture”: Grimsley, “Six Months in the White House,” JISHS, pp. 66–67 (quotes p. 67).
Lincoln did not sleep…future military policy: Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. IV, p. 368.
“be constantly drilled”…the blockade operative: AL, “Memoranda of Military Policy Suggested by the Bull Run Defeat,” July 23, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 457.
a telegram was also sent: Lorenzo Thomas to George B. McClellan, July 22, 1861, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. II, p. 753; entry for July 22, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 56.
devised a strategy…East Tennessee: AL, “Memoranda of Military Policy Suggested by the Bull Run Defeat,” July 27, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 457–58.
“If there were…Union out of it”: Walt Whitman, Specimen Days (Philadelphia: Rees Welch Co., 1882; Philadelphia: David McKay, 1892; Boston: D. R. Godine, 1971), p. 13.
“a weak…inefficient Cabinet”: NYH, July 27, 1861.
“Two weeks ago…a great victory”: SPC to William P. Mellen, July 23, 1861, reel 16, Chase Papers.
“public censure…on Lincoln”: Rawley, Turning Points of the Civil War, p. 56.
“The sun rises, but shines not”: Whitman, Specimen Days (1971 edn.), p. 12.
“Some had neither…blankets”: Entry for July 22, 1861, in Russell, My Diary North and South, p. 467.
“awakened in the…stand the hurting”: Janet Chase Hoyt, “A Woman’s Memories,” NYTrib, June 7, 1891.
“The dreadful disaster…could be offered”: EMS to James Buchanan, July 26, 1861, reprinted in “A Page of Political Correspondence. Unpublished Letters of Mr. Stanton to Mr. Buchanan,” North American Review 129 (November 1879), pp. 482–83.
“an overweening confidence”: Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Vol. I (1881; Richmond, Va.: Garrett & Massie, 1938; New York: Da Capo Press, 1990), p. 330.
General Johnston observed…faraway hospitals: Joseph E. Johnson, quoted in Nicolay, Outbreak of Rebellion, p. 211.
“Well we fought…our men”: Nancy Bates to Hester Bates, July 25, 1861, Bates Papers, MoSHi.
“very melancholy”: Entry of July 28, 1861, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 489.
“black despair…to [his] country”: Horace Greeley to AL, July 29, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
He told humorous stories: Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 448–49.
“discourage all…I believe he would do it”: William