Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [585]
Gaines’ Mill…McClellan to retreat: Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, pp. 213–50; Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 212.
“I now know…sacrifice this army”: GBM to EMS, June 28, 1862, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XI, p. 61.
When the supervisor of telegrams…it to Stanton: Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, pp. 109–10.
McClellan’s troops remained a strong: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 468.
Malvern Hill: Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, pp. 308–36.
“He was simply out-generaled”: Christopher Wolcott to Pamphila Stanton Wolcott, July 2, 1862, in Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 157a.
he continued to retreat: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 470; Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, p. 338.
CHAPTER 17: “WE ARE IN THE DEPTHS”
“We are in the…gloomy thinking”: Entry for July 14, 1862, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 241.
manifesting an anxiety…“more momentous”: Iowa State Register, Des Moines, July 16, 1862.
“the gloomiest…so low”: Entry for July 4, 1862, in Gurowski, Diary from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862, p. 235.
“the past has been…the war began”: JGN to TB, July 13, 1862, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
“It is a startling…sustain a spirit”: WHS to FS, August 2, 1862, in Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, pp. 120–21.
“Since the rebellion…taken Richmond”: SPC to Richard C. Parsons, July 20, 1862, reel 21, Chase Papers.
“The house seemed…you were gone”: SPC to KCS, June 24, 1862, reel 21, Chase Papers.
many long letters: SPC to KCS, June 24, 25, 29, and 30, July 1, 2 and 4, 1862, reel 21, Chase Papers.
“a mark of love and…on many points”: SPC to KCS, July 6, 1862, reel 21, Chase Papers.
“All your letters…very good”: SPC to KCS, July 4, 1862, reel 21, Chase Papers.
concealed her unhappiness…“So with us it came”: William Sprague to KCS, May 27, 1866, Sprague Papers.
“My confidence…and so will I”: SPC to KCS, July 6, 1862, reel 21, Chase Papers.
to visit the McDowells’…“will alarm you”: Mrs. McDowell, quoted in Phelps, Kate Chase, Dominant Daughter, p. 121.
“The first necessity…of no more”: NYT, July 7, 1862.
“Journals of all…instant removal”: NYT, July 10, 1862.
“So you want…unaffected wonder”: GBM to MEM, [July] 13, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, pp. 354–55.
“the proof…hypocrite & villain”: GBM to MEM, July 22, [1862], in ibid., p. 368.
“there had been…opposition to McClellan”: SPL to EBL, July 6, 1862, box 230, folder 7, Blair-Lee Papers, NjP-SC.
John Astor…“by a signal victory”: Entry for July 11, 1862, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 239.
“If we could help…any other way”: Frederick Law Olmsted to “My Dear Doctor,” July 13, 1862, reel 2, Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
“very fierce crusade…the art of war”: NYT, July 10, 1862.
Mary Ellet Cabell…“tears to his eyes”: Mary Ellet Cabell, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 164.
“the baby was dying”…on July 10: Christopher Wolcott to Pamphila Stanton Wolcott, July 6, 1862, in Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 157b (quote); Gideon Welles, “The History of Emancipation,” Galaxy 14 (December 1872), p. 842.
his own health began to suffer: Benjamin, “Recollections of Secretary Edwin M. Stanton,” Century (1887), p. 759.
“He unflinchingly…out of it”: Whitman, Specimen Days (1902 edn.), p. 36.
“Allow me to assure…all your life”: AL to Quintin Campbell, June 28, 1862, in CW, V, p. 288.
Stanton…shutting down recruiting offices: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 201; Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 180.
“a general panic”: AL to WHS, June 28, 1862, in CW, V, p. 292.
Seward devised an excellent solution: AL, “Call for Troops,” June 30, 1862, in ibid., p. 294 n1.
Seward telegraphed…“We fail without it”: WHS to EMS, July 1, 1862, OR, Ser. 3, Vol. II, p. 186.
“The existing law”…his own responsibility: EMS to WHS, July 1, 1862, OR, Ser. 3, Vol. II, pp. 186–87 (quote p. 186).
He set a precedent…answered Seward’s call: NR, August