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"to try us...is not with us": MTL to Julia Ann Sprigg, May 29, 1862, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 128.
speculating that G.o.d..."of little else": MTL to Hannah Shearer, November 20, 1864, in ibid., p. 189.
"foresaken...so lovely a child": MTL to Mrs. Charles Eames, July 26, 1862, in ibid., p. 131.
"far happier...when on earth": MTL to Mary Jane Welles, February 21, 1863, in ibid., p. 147.
"Death...blessed transition": MTL to CS, July 4, 1865, in ibid., p. 256.
"where there are...no more tears shed": MTL to Mary Jane Welles, July 11, 1865, in ibid., p. 257.
Through Elizabeth Keckley...celebrated medium: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 219.
the "veil...the 'loved & lost'": MTL to CS, July 4, 1865, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 256.
"the spirits of the dead...have become alive": Princess Felix Salm-Salm, Ten Years of My Life (Detroit: Belford Bros., 1877), pp. 59, 60.
"offered tangible...power of sympathy": Robert S. c.o.x, Body and Soul: A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2003), p. 85.
"an altered woman"...look at his picture: Keckley, Behind the Scenes, p. 116.
She sent all his toys...was laid out: Ibid., pp. 11617; Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 210, 213.
On the Thursday...his terrible grief: Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, p. 67.
"That blow...never felt it before": AL, quoted by Rev. Willets, in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 18788.
Three months after..."my lost boy Willie": AL, quoted in Le Grand B. Cannon, Personal Reminiscences of the Rebellion, 18611866. Black Heritage Library Collection (1895; Freeport, N.Y.: Books For Libraries Press, 1971), p. 174; the quotation from King John is in Act III, scene IV.
Lincoln cherished mementos...and tell stories: Randall, Mary Lincoln, pp. 29192.
he invited Browning...important events: Entry for June 22, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 553.
"the memory...you have known before": AL to f.a.n.n.y McCullough, December 23, 1862, in CW, VI, p. 17.
CHAPTER 16: "HE WAS SIMPLY OUT-GENERALED"
the "sad calamity...be left undone": GBM to AL, February 22, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
McClellan's a.s.surances...contentious meeting: Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, pp. 7784; Bruce Tap, "Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War (18611865)," in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 1086.
"that neither...defer to General McClellan": George W. Julian, Political Recollections, 1840 to 1872 (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1884), p. 201.
Bates strenuously objected..."commanders": Entry for January 10, 1862, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, pp. 22324.
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 Was.h.i.+ngton and in the Field in the Sixties (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1898), p. 5.
Stanton's remark...society: Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, pp. 12526.
"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. 7374.
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. 16364; Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, pp. 14, 1617.
"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. 22426.
"not to let...doing anything": EBL to SPL, April 12, 1862, Wartime Was.h.i.+ngton, ed. Laas, p. 127 (quote); FPB to GBM, April 12, 1862, reel 20, Papers of George B. McClellan, Sr., Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress [hereafter McClellan Papers, DLC].
Was.h.i.+ngton 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.
