Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [581]
He borrowed General Halleck’s book: Entry for January 8, 1862, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 88.
“he was thinking…himself”: Entry for January 12, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 523.
“The bottom is out of the tub”: AL, quoted in Meigs, “General M. C. Meigs on the Conduct of the Civil War,” AHR 26 (1921), p. 292.
The nearly bankrupt Treasury…meeting on the following day: Ibid.
“can’t keep a…to Tadd”: GBM, quoted in ibid., p. 293.
General War Order No. 1: AL, “President’s General War Order No. 1,” January 27, 1862, in CW, V, p. 111.
Lincoln correctly believed…at the same time: Entry for January 12, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 523.
the Peninsula Campaign: See Stephen W. Sears, To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992).
proposed a different strategy…“superior force”: EMS to Heman Dyer, May 18, 1862, reel 3, Stanton Papers, DLC.
it was feared that the Confederates: AL to GBM, February 3, 1862, Lincoln Papers. On McClellan’s plans see GBM to EMS, January 31, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
Lincoln reluctantly…safe from attack: AL, “President’s General War Order No. 3,” March 8, 1862, in CW, V, p. 151.
“there was no more”…grown disenchanted: EMS to Heman Dyer, May 18, 1862, reel 3, Stanton Papers, DLC.
“while men are striving…must be stopped”: EMS to Charles A. Dana, January 24, 1862, quoted in Charles A. Dana, Recollections of the Civil War: With the Leaders at Washington and in the Field in the Sixties (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1898), p. 5.
Stanton’s remark…society: Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, pp. 125–26.
“That will be…the waiting snub”: EMS, quoted in Albert E. H. Johnson, “Reminiscences of the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War,” Records of the Columbia Historical Society 13 (1910), p. 73.
delivered orders to transfer…“his humiliation”: Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 216 (quote); Johnson, “Reminiscences of the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton,” RCHS (1910), pp. 73–74.
The Democratic press…“worthy of Punch”: EMS to Charles A. Dana, February 23, 1862, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 131.
on the weekend of March 8…supplies, and weapons: Sears, George B. McClellan, pp. 163–64; Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, pp. 14, 16–17.
“We shall be the…we have got one”: William P. Fessenden to family, March 15, 1862, quoted in Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, p. 261.
“Anybody…must have somebody”: “Conversation with Vice President Wilson, Nov. 16, 1875,” container 10, Nicolay Papers.
On March 11…Mountain Department: AL, “President’s War Order No. 3,” March 11, 1862, in CW, V, p. 155.
“learned through the”…the result of the war: McClellan, McClellan’s Own Story, pp. 224–26.
“not to let…doing anything”: EBL to SPL, April 12, 1862, Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 127 (quote); FPB to GBM, April 12, 1862, reel 20, Papers of George B. McClellan, Sr., Manuscript Division, Library of Congress [hereafter McClellan Papers, DLC].
Washington gossip…to support McClellan: CS to John Andrew, April 27, 1862, in The Selected Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. II, ed. Beverly Wilson Palmer (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990), p. 112.
“preservers of slavery”: Entry for February 1862, in Gurowski, Diary from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862, p. 157.
Monty Blair privately…“mortifying to Frank”: MB to FPB, March 12, 1862, box 7, folder 6, Blair-Lee Papers, NjP-SC.
“urged by Chase”…felt it intensely: EBL to SPL, March 11, [1862], in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 109.
Frank Blair had delivered…of Blair’s address: Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, pp. 87–89; Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, pp. 105–09.
The New York Tribune…“of the President”: MB to John C. Frémont, August 24, 1861, quoted in NYTrib, March 4, 1862.
“Brother just took…think of it again”: EBL to SPL, March 6, 1862, in Wartime Washington, ed.