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"urged by Chase"...felt it intensely: EBL to SPL, March 11, [1862], in Wartime Was.h.i.+ngton, ed. Laas, p. 109.
Frank Blair had delivered...of Blair's address: Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, pp. 8789; Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, pp. 10509.
The New York Tribune..."of the President": MB to John C. Fremont, August 24, 1861, quoted in NYTrib, March 4, 1862.
"Brother just took...think of it again": EBL to SPL, March 6, 1862, in Wartime Was.h.i.+ngton, ed. Laas, pp. 10506.
A grateful Monty Blair..."very well of it": MB to FPB, March 12, 1862, box 7, folder 6, Blair-Lee Papers, NjP-SC.
approving Fremont's appointment..."opinion and action": NYT, March 13, 1862.
Seward appreciated...at large: Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, pp. 5051.
"Somebody must be...the S. of S.": WHS to TW, April 25, 1862, quoted in ibid., p. 88.
"The President...and practical": WHS to TW, April 1, 1862, quoted in ibid., p. 81.
Count Gurowski despaired..."strategy?": Entry for February 1862, in Gurowski, Diary from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862, pp. 156, 22627, 171 (quote).
by the middle of March...him of command: Allan Nevins, The War for the Union. Vol. II: War Becomes Revolution, 18621863 (1960; New York: Konecky & Konecky, undated reprint), p. 44.
Seward scorned...northern Virginia!: WHS, paraphrased in letter from Sam Ward to S. L. M. Barlow, March 27, 1862, in ibid.
While acknowledging..."'stationary' engine": Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 255.
he confided to Browning..."orders to move": Entry for April 2, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, pp. 53738.
twenty-four hours before...to Fort Monroe: Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, p. xi; Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 168.
presented a sight..."seldom seen": Entry for March 16, 1862, in French, Witness to the Young Republic, p. 391.
"I will bring you...ofhis heart": GBM to the Soldiers of the Army of the Potomac, March 14, 1862, quoted in NYT, March 16, 1862.
"information...defend the Capital": EMS to Heman Dyer, May 18, 1862, reel 3, Stanton Papers, DLC.
"explicit order...entirely secure": AL to GBM, April 9, 1862, in CW, V, p. 184.
Stanton referred..."wrath of his friends": EMS to Heman Dyer, May 18, 1862, reel 3, Stanton Papers, DLC.
McClellan advanced...constructing earthworks: Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, pp. 3662; Todd Anthony Rosa, "Peninsula Campaign," in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 1483.
"You now have...as you can": AL to GBM, April 6, 1862, in CW, V, p. 182.
"he had better come & do it himself": GBM to MEM, April 8, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 234.
"the enemy...strong batteries": GBM and EMS paraphrased in entry of April 9, 1862, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 249.
"It is indispensable...But you must act": AL to GBM, April 9, 1862, in CW, V, p. 185.
"Do not misunderstand...batteries built": GBM to AL, April 23, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
"the more decisive the results will be": GBM to MEM, April 19, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 243.
"compelled to change...delay of victory": GBM to EMS, [c. April 27, 1862], in ibid., pp. 24849.
Joe Johnston...damage to the rebel army: Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, pp. 68, 62; GBM to EMS, May 4, 1862, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 254.
the long delay...a counteroffensive: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 455.
the spring social season..."over the ground": NR, April 4, 1862.
Mary remained in mourning...on the lawn: Commissioner B. B. French to Colonel John Harris, Commandant U.S. Marine Corps, June 12, 1862, p. 134, Vol. 14, Letters Sent by the Commissioner of Public Buildings, Vols. 12, 14 (July 2, 1855June 9, 1865), reel 7, Records of the District of Columbia Commissioners and of the Offices Concerned with Public Buildings, 17911867 (National Archives Microfilm Publication M371), Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, RG 42, DNA.
"more of a...in order to watch her": Mrs. Daniel Chester (Mary) French, Memories of a Sculptor's Wife (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1928), pp. 14748.
"I a simple...her perfection": f.a.n.n.y Garrison Villard, quoted in Phelps, Kate Chase, Dominant Daughter, p. 279.
Kate's daily schedule, breakfasts and parties: Ross, Proud Kate, p. 78; Phelps, Kate Chase, Dominant Daughter, p. 112.
"stop at Van Zant's...and agreeable occasion": KCS to Jay Cooke, quoted in Ross, Proud Kate, p. 94.
"Cabinet calling...and Mrs. Stanton": "Miriam," February 19, 1862, Iowa State Register, Des Moines, quoted in Mrs. John A. Ka.s.son, "An Iowa Woman in Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., 18611865," Iowa Journal of History 52 (January 1954), pp. 6667.
While Kate hosted...lively, entertaining conversation: Phelps, Kate Chase, Dominant Daughter, pp. 11112.
"Diplomats and statesmen...the Bourbons": Was.h.i.+ngton Post, August 1, 1899.
the Chase home...a forum: Ross, Proud Kate, pp. 78, 93.
"parlor politics": For more on Was.h.i.+ngton women using entertaining for political purposes see Catherine Allgor, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Was.h.i.+ngton Help Build a City and a Government (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2000).
a "rival court": Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, p. 33.
the proclamation of General David Hunter: General Orders No. 11, May 9, 1862, quoted in AL, "Proclamation Revoking General Hunter's Order of Military Emanc.i.p.ation of May 9, 1862," May 19, 1862, in CW, V, p. 222.
"It seems to me...your Administration": SPC to AL, May 16, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
"No commanding general...consulting me": AL to SPC, [May 17, 1862], in CW, V, p. 219.
"dissatisfaction...believe would follow": AL, "Appeal to Border State Representatives to Favor Compensated Emanc.i.p.ation," July 12, 1862, in ibid., p. 318.
"among the more advanced...pusillanimity": Carl Schurz to AL, May 19, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
"all the more warmly...of Hunter's proclamation": SPC to Horace Greeley, May 21, 1862, reel 20, Chase Papers.
Rumors began to surface: NYT, May 20, 1862.
"The cabin"...his "inexhaustible stock": Viele, "A Trip with Lincoln, Chase, and Stanton," Scribners Monthly (1878), pp. 81314.
