Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [570]
“a meddling…old woman”: GBM to MEM, October 11, 1861, in ibid., pp. 106–07.
“an old fool…altogether fancy him!”: GBM to MEM, October 31, 1861, in ibid., p. 114.
a flattering letter…promotion to major general: SPC to GBM, July 7, 1861, quoted in Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, p. 427.
engagement at Ball’s Bluff: Entry for October 21, 1861, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, p. 129.
“a slight demonstration…move them”: GMB to Charles P. Stone, October 20, 1861, quoted in note 2 of GBM to Stone, October 21, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 109.
casualties at Ball’s Bluff: “Return of casualties in the Union forces in the engagement at Ball’s Bluff, Virginia, October 21, 1861,” OR, Ser. 1, Vol. V, p. 308.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr…. home to recover: SPC to KCS, July 28, 1865, reel 35, Chase Papers.
“the death…a desert”: Noah Brooks, “Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 31 (July 1865), p. 228.
“Mr. Lincoln sat”…and kissed him: Benjamin Rush Cowen, Abraham Lincoln: An Appreciation by One Who Knew Him (Cincinnati, Ohio: Robert Clarke Co., 1909), pp. 29–30.
Eckert…received word: Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, pp. 95–96.
“with bowed head…into the street”: Charles Carleton Coffin, “Lincoln’s First Nomination and His Visit to Richmond in 1865,” in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1909 edn.), p. 176.
Mary was similarly distraught: Entry for October 22, 1861, in Russell, My Diary North and South, p. 558.
Willie and Tad…were heartbroken: Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 191.
“On the Death of Colonel Edward Baker”: NR, November 4, 1861.
“to care for him…his orphan”: AL, “Second Inaugural Address,” March 4, 1865, in CW, VIII, p. 333.
“disaster…committed”: GBM to Division Commanders, Army of the Potomac, October 24, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 111.
“The whole thing…directly to blame”: GBM to MEM, October 25, 1861, in ibid., p. 111.
the president defended McClellan: Entry for October 26, 1861, in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 28.
unleashed a diatribe…to remove Scott: GBM to MEM, October 26, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 112; Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 123.
“You may have…heads to call me”: GBM to MEM, October 30, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 112.
“long and brilliant…deep emotion”: AL, “Order Retiring Winfield Scott from Command,” November 1, 1861, in CW, V, p. 10.
Lincoln designated McClellan: AL to GBM, November 1, 1861, in ibid., pp. 9–10.
“I saw there…his successor”: GBM to MEM, November 3, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, pp. 123–24.
All the members…on his journey: Star, November 2, 1861; Charles Winslow Elliott, Winfield Scott: The Soldier and the Man. American Military Experience Series (New York: Arno Press, 1979), p. 743.
“quite a number of citizens”: NYH, November 4, 1861.
the young Napoleon: Sears, George B. McClellan, p. xi.
“I do not intend to be sacrificed”: GBM to MEM, October 31, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 113.
to confront the rebel forces: GBM to Simon Cameron, October 31, 1861, in ibid., pp. 114–19; GBM to MEM, August 16, 1861, in ibid., p. 85.
“to dodge…Presdt etc.”: GBM to MEM, October 31, 1861, in ibid., p. 113.
“the original…his high position”: GBM to MEM, November 17, 1861, in ibid., pp. 135–36.
“I wish here to record…personal dignity”: Entry for November 13, 1861, in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 32.
He would hold…could be achieved: Henry Ketcham, The Life of Abraham Lincoln (New York: A. L. Burt, 1901), p. 291.
“A minute passes…rebellious consciousness”: Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, p. 63.
His “mouth would relax…sea of laughter”: Grimsley, “Six Months in the White House,” JISHS, p. 55.
“daily drive…so much needed”: Ibid.
soirées in the Blue Room: Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 96–97, 98; MTL to Hannah Shearer, October 6, 1861, ibid., p. 108; Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 231.
Daniel Sickles…“temporary