Authors: Doris Kearns Goodwin
McClellan’s troops remained a strong: McPherson,
Battle Cry of Freedom,
p. 468.
Malvern Hill: Sears,
To the Gates of Richmond,
pp. 308–36.
“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 Washington…1861–1872,
pp. 120–21.
“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. 354–55.
“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, Manuscript 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 Emancipation,”
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 assure…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. 186–87 (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.
“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,
p. 12.
“this quiet and beautiful…along the hills”:
Iowa State Register,
Des Moines, July 2, 1862.
At Mary’s urging: Pinsker,
Lincoln’s Sanctuary,
pp. 4–5.
“We are truly…to Cambridge”: MTL to Mrs. Charles Eames, July 26, [1862], in Turner and Turner,
Mary Todd Lincoln,
p. 131.
For Tad…campfire at night: Pinsker,
Lincoln’s Sanctuary,
p. 78.
the Lincolns could entertain…among family and friends: Ibid., pp. 9–10.
“helped him…attorney in Illinois”: Ibid., pp. 15 (quote), 81–82.
“daily habit…in the District”:
Saturday Evening Post,
June 21, 1862.
“But for these humane…lost her child”: Mrs. E. F. Ellet,
The Court Circles of the Republic
(Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Publishing Co., 1869; New York: Arno Press, 1975), p. 526.
“little cares…into nothing”: Walt Whitman to Louisa Whitman, December 29, 1862, in Walt Whitman,
The Wound Dresser: A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington During the War of the Rebellion,
ed. Richard Maurice Bucke (Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1898; Folcroft, Penn.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1975), p. 48.
“nothing of ordinary…it used to”: Walt Whitman to Louisa Whitman, August 25, 1863, in ibid., p. 104.
“to form an immense army”:
NYTrib,
July 9, 1862.
steamers arrived…Ambulances stood by:
NR,
June 30, 1862.
a massive project of…military hospitals: see
NR,
June 17–23, 1862;
Iowa State Register,
Des Moines, July 9, 1862.
Union Hotel Hospital…“sup their wine”:
NR,
January 9, 1862.
“many of the doors…could christen it”: Louisa May Alcott,
Hospital Sketches
(New York: Sagamore Press, 1957), p. 59.
The Braddock House…old chairs and desks: Freeman,
The Boys in White,
p. 37.
the Patent Office…transformed into a hospital ward:
NR,
June 27 and September 2, 1862.
“a curious scene…pavement under foot”: Walt Whitman, quoted in
NYT,
February 26, 1863.
the Methodist Episcopal Church on 20th Street:
NR,
June 18, 1862.
covering pews…laboratory and kitchen:
NR,
June 23, 1862.
more than three thousand patients:
NR,
April 11, 1862.
baskets of fruit…pillows of wounded men:
NYTrib,
August 13, 1862 (quote); Ellet,
The Court Circles of the Republic,
p. 526; AL to Hiram P. Barney, August 16, 1862, in
CW,
V, pp. 377–78.
One wounded soldier…signature: MTL to “Mrs. Agen,” August 10, 1864, in Turner and Turner,
Mary Todd Lincoln,
p. 179.
of “commanding stature…for it so eagerly”: Alcott,
Hospital Sketches,
pp. 89–92, 99–100, 103, 104.
“singularly cool…(full of maggots)”: Walt Whitman to Louisa Whitman, October 6, 1863, in Whitman,
The Wound Dresser,
pp. 123–24.
“heap of feet”…hospital grounds: Walt Whitman to Louisa Whitman, December 29, 1862, in ibid., p. 48.
she found it difficult…“wounded occupant”: Alcott,
Hospital Sketches,
p. 59.
“Death itself…such a relief”: Walt Whitman to Louisa Whitman, August 25, 1863, in Whitman,
The Wound Dresser,
p. 104.
“was so blackened”…eventually recovered: Amanda Stearns to her sister, May 14, 1863, reprinted in Amanda Akin Stearns,
The Lady Nurse of Ward E
(New York: Baker & Taylor Co., 1909), pp. 25–26 (quote p. 25).