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a “renewed patriotism”: NYT, July 23, 1861.
“Let no loyal…greater efforts”: Chicago Tribune, July 23, 1861.
Several papers compared: Chicago Tribune, July 23, 1861; NYTrib, reprinted in Star, July 27, 1861.
“The spirit of…facilities for defence”: NYT, July 26, 1861.
could “take comfort”: Philadelphia Inquirer, July 25, 1861.
CHAPTER 14: “I DO NOT INTEND TO BE SACRIFICED”
“Nothing but a patent…at last”: James Russell Lowell, “General McClellan’s Report (1864),” in The Writings of James Russell Lowell. Vol. V: Political Essays (Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, 1871; 1890), pp. 94, 99.
when he arrived…Army of the Potomac: Entry for July 27, 1861, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, p. 101.
Among the Union’s…the Mexican War: See chapter 1 of Stephen W. Sears, George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988).
defeated a guerrilla band: Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 80.
“the man on horseback”: Entry for July 27, 1861, in Russell, My Diary North and South, p. 480.
“a more martial look”: Entry for July 1861, in Gurowski, Diary from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862, p. 76.
drunken soldiers…troops wander the city: Entry for July 27, 1861, in Russell, My Diary North and South, p. 479; Star, July 31, 1861.
“You have no idea…such yelling”: GBM to MEM, [September 11, 1861], in The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, Selected Correspondence, 1861–1865, ed. Stephen W. Sears (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1989), p. 98.
“the great obstacle”: GBM to MEM, August 9, 1861, in ibid., 81.
“entirely insufficient…in our front”: GBM to Winfield Scott, August 8, 1861, in ibid., p. 80.
Scott was furious…opposition forces: Winfield Scott to Simon Cameron, August 9, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
It would not be…miscalculations: Sears, George B. McClellan, pp. 103, 109.
discord…continued to escalate: GBM to AL, August 10, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 82; GBM to MEM, September 27, 1861, in ibid., pp. 103–04.
“concentric pressure”: Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 98.
“crush…in one campaign”: GBM to MEM, August 2, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 74.
“result…in my hands”: GBM to MEM, August 9, 1861, in ibid., pp. 81–82.
“by some strange…of the land”: GBM to MEM, July 27, 1861, in ibid., p. 70.
“the people call…country is saved”: GBM to MEM, August 9, 1861, in ibid., pp. 81–82.
Scott was “a perfect imbecile…a traitor”: GBM to MEM, August 8, 1861, in ibid., p. 81.
“eternal jealousy…distinction”: GBM to MEM, October 6, 1861, in ibid., p. 106.
“The remedy…small of the back”: Winfield Scott to Simon Cameron (copy), October 4, 1861, reel 1, Stanton Papers, DLC.
McClellan’s headquarters: Entry for September 2, 1861, in Russell, My Diary North and South, pp. 520–21; Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 100.
“smoking…writing”: Entry for September 2, 1861, in Russell, My Diary North and South, p. 520.
“I have just been…stories to tell”: GBM to MEM, October 16, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 107.
“together…mortals”: Entry for November 1861, in Gurowski, Diary from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862, p. 123.
“lying down, very much fatigued”: Brigadier Van Vliet, quoted in entry for October 9, 1861, in Russell, My Diary North and South, p. 552.
magnificent reviews of more than fifty thousand troops: Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, October 5, 1861; JGN to TB, November 21, 1861, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
“not a mistake…a hitch”: GBM to MEM, November 20, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 137.
“A long time…not mind that”: GBM to MEM, October 6, 1861, in ibid., p. 106.
“a slave-catching order”…their masters: Entry for September 1861, in Gurowski, Diary from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862, p. 95.
“fighting to preserve…to do with him”: GBM to Samuel L. M. Barlow, November 8, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 128.
“some of the greatest…of Job”: GBM to MEM, October 10,