Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [593]
found all manner of excuses: GBM to Henry W. Halleck, October 7, 9, 11, and 18, 1862, and GBM to AL, October 17 and 30, 1862, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, pp. 493, 495, 499, 502, 516.
“Will you pardon me…fatigue anything?”: AL to GBM, October [25], 1862, in CW, V, p. 474.
“Our war on rebellion…specimen after all”: Entry for October 23, 1862, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 267.
an “ill wind” of discontent: WHS to FS, October 1862, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, pp. 141, 142 (quote p. 141).
the midterm November elections…“hurt to laugh”: Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 335; Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 325; AL, quoted in Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. I, p. 611 (quote).
“I began…I relieved him”: AL, quoted in “25 September 1863, Sunday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 232.
McClellan received…“visible on my face”: GBM to MEM, November 7, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 520.
“More than a hundred…shed in profusion”: National Intelligencer, Washington, D.C., November 14, 1862.
“In parting…an indissoluble tie”: GBM to the Army of the Potomac, November 7, 1862, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 521.
choice of Burnside proved unfortunate: Darius N. Couch, “Sumner’s ‘Right Grand Division,’” in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. III, Pt. 1, p. 106; Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. II, pp. 397–98.
“ten times…as he has head”: Entry for January 1, 1863, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
Fredericksburg Campaign: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 571–72; Spencer C. Tucker, “Fredericksburg, First Battle of,” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, pp. 774–79.
“The courage…popular government”: AL, “Congratulations to the Army of the Potomac,” December 22, 1862, in CW, VI, p. 13.
“awful arithmetic…Confederacy gone”: AL, paraphrased in Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, p. 101.
“more depressed…[his] life”: Entry for December 18, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 601.
Tuesday, December 16…“cause was lost”: Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, pp. 231–32 (quote p. 232).
Chase had claimed…“of the cabinet”: Benjamin Wade, paraphrased in entry for December 16, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 597.
had repeatedly griped…“salvation of the country”: SPC to John Sherman, September 20, 1862, reel 22, Chase Papers (quote); SPC to Zachariah Chandler, September 20, 1862, reel 1, Chandler Papers, DLC.
“paralizing influence…the President”: Boston Commonwealth, December 6, 1862, quoted in David Donald, Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970), p. 87.
“President de facto…to Uncle Abe’s nose”: Chicago Tribune, quoted in Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 352.
“controlling influence…of the President”: Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, p. 232.
“should go in…dismissal of Mr Seward”: Benjamin Wade, paraphrased in entry for December 16, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 597.
“that measures should…to the war”: Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, p. 234.
“a want of confidence…from the Cabinet”: Senator Grimes, paraphrased in ibid., p. 233.
Fessenden asked…“on mere rumors”: Ibid., p. 235.
“had no evidence…our cause greatly”: Entry for December 16, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, pp. 597–98.
“without entire…productive of evil”: Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, p. 236.
“give time for reflection”: Entry for December 16, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 598.
Preston King felt…“‘I can’t get out’”: Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, pp. 146–47 (quotes); entry for December 19, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 194.
“They wish to…impose upon a child