Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [584]
Chase, accompanying…of the region: SPC to Janet Chase Hoyt, May 11, 1862, reel 20, Chase Papers.
“The night was very…of mere appearances”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 104–05.
reporters noted…bouts of vertigo: Philadelphia Inquirer, May 13, 1862.
“one of the strangest…military history”: Foote, The Civil War, Vol. I, p. 413.
“So has ended…now virtually ours”: SPC to Janet Chase Hoyt, May 11, 1862, reel 20, Chase Papers.
“Norfolk…my movements”: GBM to MEM, May 10, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 262.
Welles invited…“field glasses and maps”: FWS to FAS, undated letter, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, p. 89.
enjoyed an easy camaraderie…with one another: Mary Jane Welles to Edgar T. Welles, May 19, 1862, typescript, reel 34, Welles Papers.
Seward…composed a humorous poem: Entry for May 19, 1862, in Dahlgren, Memoir of John A. Dahlgren, p. 368.
“Virginia is sad…everywhere”: WHS to FAS, May 19, 1862, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, p. 94.
“We saw war…precedes its march”: WHS to FAS, undated letter, quoted in ibid., p. 93.
The steamer reached McClellan’s camp…“its supporting fleet”: FWS to FAS, undated letter, quoted in ibid., p. 89.
“a nuisance”: GBM to MEM, May 15, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 267.
he convinced…“this side of Richmond”: WHS to AL, May 14, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
“one of the great…of the world”: GBM to MEM, May 22, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 274.
“At night…or New York”: FWS to FAS, undated letter, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, p. 89.
Seward advised Lincoln…“as soon as possible”: WHS to AL, May 14, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
McDowell was ordered: AL to Irvin McDowell, [May 17, 1862], in CW, V, pp. 219–20.
McClellan stood…“animal”: GBM to MEM, [June 9, 1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 293.
an impromptu visit…Marco Bozzaris: Entry for May 22, [1862], in Dahlgren, Memoir of John A. Dahlgren, pp. 368, 368 n1; John W. M. Hallock, The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000), pp. 96–98; Fitz-Greene Halleck, “Marco Bozzaris,” in Yale Book of American Verse, ed. Thomas R. Lounsbury (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1912), pp. 12–13.
“a common baggage…think much of McDowell!”: Entry for May 23, 1862, in Dahlgren, Memoir of John A. Dahlgren, pp. 369–70.
General Stonewall Jackson had been sent: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 455–57.
“I have been compelled…to join you”: AL to GBM, May 24, 1862, in CW, V, p. 232.
“Stripped bare…from you instantly”: AL to GBM, May 25, 1862, in ibid., pp. 236–37.
“Independently…shall attack Richmond”: GBM to AL, May 25, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
“just finished…knavery & folly”: GBM to MEM, May 25, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 275.
“Lincoln’s diversion…to capture Richmond”: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 460.
Confederate attack at Fair Oaks: Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, pp. 111–45, 147, 149; Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 196.
“McClellan keeps sending…has not stirred”: Christopher Wolcott to Pamphila Stanton Wolcott, June 11, 1862, in Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 156 (first quote); Wolcott to Wolcott, June 22, 1862, ibid., p. 157a (second quote).
bridges to be built: Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, p. 158.
“if I cannot fully…for the results”: GBM to EMS, June 16, 1862, reel 3, Stanton Papers, DLC.
“utmost prudence…all know it”: GBM to MEM, June 22, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 305.
allowed General Lee to take the initiative: Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, p. 151.
the Seven Days Battles: For a detailed description of the Seven Days Battles, see Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, pp. 181–336.
Federals dead, wounded, and missing: Ibid., pp. 344–45.
“vastly superior…where it belongs”: GBM to EMS, June 25, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, pp. 309–10.
“pains me…if I would”: AL to GBM, June 26, 1862, in CW, V, p. 286.
neither McClellan