Team Of Rivals - LightNovelsOnl.com
You're reading novel online at LightNovelsOnl.com. Please use the follow button to get notifications about your favorite novels and its latest chapters so you can come back anytime and won't miss anything.
the Seven Days Battles: For a detailed description of the Seven Days Battles, see Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, pp. 181336.
Federals dead, wounded, and missing: Ibid., pp. 34445.
"vastly superior...where it belongs": GBM to EMS, June 25, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, pp. 30910.
"pains me...if I would": AL to GBM, June 26, 1862, in CW, V, p. 286.
neither McClellan nor Lincoln was able to sleep: Entry for July 5, 1862, in Dahlgren, Memoir of John A. Dahlgren, p. 375; Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 209.
Gaines' Mill...McClellan to retreat: Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, pp. 21350; 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. 10910.
McClellan's troops remained a strong: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 468.
Malvern Hill: Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, pp. 30836.
"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 Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, pp. 12021.
"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. 35455.
"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, Ma.n.u.script 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 Emanc.i.p.ation," 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 a.s.sure...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. 18687 (quote p. 186).
He set a precedent...answered Seward's call: NR, August 14, 1862.
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.
