Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [586]
William Junior…“line of march”: William H. Seward, Jr., speech before members of the 9th New York Artillery, 1912, box 121, Seward Papers, NRU.
Will’s enlistment…his mother’s fragile health: William H. Seward, Jr., to WHS, July 17, 1862, reel 117, Seward Papers.
“As it is obvious…no objection”: FAS to FWS, August 10, 1862, reel 115, Seward Papers.
to make a personal visit…at Harrison’s Landing: Sun, Baltimore, Md., July 11, 1862.
“The day had”…to over 100 degrees: NYT, July 12, 1862 (quote); NYH, July 11, 1862.
the “almost overpowering” heat: GBM to MEM, July 8, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 346.
at Harrison’s Landing…moonlit evening: NYT, July 12, 1862; NYH, July 11, 1862.
great cheers…“deck of the vessel”: NYT, July 11, 1862.
“strong frank…will be saved”: GBM to MEM, July 8, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 346.
the “Harrison’s Landing” letter: GBM to AL, July 7, 1862, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XI, pp. 73–74.
Lincoln “made no comments…to me for it”: McClellan, McClellan’s Own Story, p. 487.
the president reviewed…wounded: Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, pp. 344–45; NYH, July 11, 1862.
“Mr. Lincoln rode…stove-pipe hat”: NYT, July 11, 1862.
“entangled…has been universal”: Rev. Joseph H. Twichell, “Army Memories of Lincoln. A Chaplain’s Reminiscences,” The Congregationalist and Christian World, January 30, 1913, p. 154.
“successive booming…Saul of old”: NYH, July 11, 1862.
“thinned ranks…with their struggle”: NYT, July 12, 1862.
“On the way…swim in the river”: NYH, July 11, 1862.
“Frank was…greatly cheered”: EBL to SPL, July 18, 1862, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 165 n8.
summoned General Henry Halleck…general in chief: AL, “Order Making Henry W. Halleck General-in-Chief,” July 11, 1862, in CW, V, pp. 312–13.
Halleck’s victories…widely respected: “Halleck, Henry Wager (1815–1872),” in Sifakis, Who Was Who in the Union, p. 172.
“I do not know…I am a General”: GBM to MEM, [July] 10, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 348.
Senator Chandler of Michigan…“the coward”: Entry for June 4, 1862, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 260.
Lincoln was determined…“cajoled out of them”: Entry for July 24, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 563.
“much of his…crushing the rebellion”: Benjamin, “Recollections of Secretary Edwin M. Stanton,” Century (1887), p. 765.
“that all that Stanton…the President”: Entry for July 14, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 559.
All the government departments had closed down: NR, August 7, 1862.
“never seen more persons…resembled”: Entry for August 10, 1862, in French, Witness to the Young Republic, p. 405.
“the ringing of bells…Marine Band”: NYT, August 7, 1862.
“‘Well! Hadn’t I’…once to the stand”: Entry for August 6, 1862, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 360.
“I believe there…the Secretary of War”: AL, “Address to Union Meeting at Washington,” August 6, 1862, in CW, V, pp. 358–59.
“He is one of…ever created”: Entry for August 10, 1862, in French, Witness to the Young Republic, p. 405.
“originality…took all hearts”: Entry for August 6, 1862, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 360.
The great rally concluded…in the Union: NR, August 7, 1862.
she had begun riding: NYT, April 5, 1862.
“she was so hid…she was there”: Mary Hay to Milton Hay, April 13, 1862, in Concerning Mr. Lincoln, comp. Pratt, p. 94.
“she seemed to be”…Soldiers’ Home: Entry for June 16, 1862, in French, Witness to the Young Republic, p. 400.
Soldiers’ Home: Matthew Pinsker, Lincoln’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003); National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, President Lincoln and Soldiers’ Home National Monument, Special Resource Draft Study (August 2002).
“an earthly paradise”: Julia Wheelock Freeman, The Boys in White; The Experience of a Hospital Agent in and Around Washington (New York: Lange & Hillman, 1870), p. 171.
a choice destination for Washingtonians: Pinsker, Lincoln’s Sanctuary,