by Larry Tagg
216 “Mr. Lincoln in some way”: Entry for August 1861, Gurowski, Diary, 1861-1862, p. 89.
217 “to preserve the Union”: Edward McPherson, The Political History of the United States of America During the Period of Reconstruction (Washington: Solomons & Chapman, 1875), p. 100.
217 “A rebel has sacrificed all his rights”: Nathaniel W. Stephenson, Lincoln, (Grosset & Dunlap, 1922), p. 193.
218 “I don’t know anything about diplomacy”: Norman B. Ferris, “Lincoln and Seward in Civil War Diplomacy: Their Relationship at the Outset Reexamined.” For more information see http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jala/12/ferris.html
218 “that if Kentucky made no demonstration”: Nevins, 1861-1862, p. 133.
219 “Little Bo-Peep Policy”: ibid., p. 136.
220 “I have given you carte blanche”: John C. Fremont, “In Command in Missouri,” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, ed. Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Buel (NY: The Century Company, 1888), p. I:279.
Page 220 “the tide of rebellion”: Nevins, 1861-1862, p. 331.
221 “This letter is written in a spirit of caution”: Lincoln, Works, p. IV: 506.
221 Three to one in favor of Fremont: Among the September 1861 letters to Lincoln, the total of letters to Lincoln supporting Fremont was 30; 12 supported Lincoln himself. Lincoln, Papers.
221 A Cincinnatian wrote Horace Greeley: Nevins, 1861-1862., p. 340.
221 “It would have been difficult”: Letter of September 16, 1861, L.B. Moon to Lincoln, from Donald, Lincoln, p. 316-317.
221 “They unanimously condemn the President’s letter”: Letter of September 20, 1861, E.H. Owen to Welles, from Randall, Springfield to Gettysburg, p. II: 21.
221 “It is said that we must consult the border states”: Letter of September 17, 1861, J.R. Hawley to Welles, ibid.
222 “My wife expressed the common feeling”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. I: 347.
222 “Does [Lincoln] suppose he can crush”: Donald, Lincoln, p. 317.
222 “Mr. Lincoln and his advisers”: September 20, 1861, New York Tribune, from Brayton Harris, p. 197.
222 “My own indignation”: September 14, 1861, White to David Davis, from Donald, Lincoln, p. 316-317.
222 “a mere scheme”: Harper, p. 143.
222 “The President’s letter to Gen. Fremont”: Letter of September 15, 1861, Medill to Chase, from Trefousse, The Radical Republicans, p. 176.
“the unlooked-for assistant”: October 19, 1861, Chicago Times.
223 “What do you think”: Letter of September 23, 1861, Wade to Chandler, from Nevins, 1861-1862, p. 340
224 “To me the Presdt’s letter”: Sumner, The Selected Letters, p. II: 79.
224 “He is not a genius”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. I: 347-351.
224 “timid, depressing, suicidal,” etc.: Mayer, p. 527.
224 “Mr. President”: Letter of September 17, 1861, from Orville Browning, Lincoln, Papers.
225 “Coming from you”: Lincoln, Works, p. IV: 531-2.
226 “The german people have talked”: Letter of November 9, 1861, from Leonard Swett, Lincoln, Papers.
226 “smote the community like a loss in battle”: Nevins, 1861-1862, p. 383.
226 Citizens were pulling down portraits: Cincinnati Gazette, from Sandburg, The War Years, p. I: 350.
226 “I have never seen such excitement”: Nevins, 1861-1862., p. 384.
226 “[The Republicans’] attitude towards [Lincoln]”: November 27, 1861, Chicago Times.
Chapter 19: The Phony War of 1861
227 McClellan biographical items are from Nevins, 1861-1862, p. 269-271; Sandburg, The War Years, p. I: 315-316.; Kenneth Williams, Lincoln Finds a General (Indiana University Press, 1985), p. I: 104 ff.; and Stephen W. Sears, George McClellan: The Young Napoleon (NY: Ticknor and Fields, 1988), p. 27 ff.
228 “one continuous ovation”: Sears, The Young Napoleon, p. 95.
228 “I find myself’: Letter of July 27, 1861, to his wife, McClellan, Papers, p. 70.
228 “For the first time”: Entry of July 1861, Gurowski, Diary, 1861-1862, p. 76.
229 “Confidence Renewed”: Sears, The Young Napoleon, p. 97.
Page 229 “His manner is self-possessed”: Letter of September 12, 1861, H.W. Bellows to his wife, from Nevins, 1861-1862, p. 269.
229 “A neck” and “muscular as a prize-fighter’s”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. I: 316.
229 “[I]n everyone” and “idol of Washington”: Nicolay and Hay, A History, p. IV: 444.
230 “In almost every class” and “Some how or other”: Sears, The Young Napoleon, p. 6.
231 “was not a man of very strong character”: ibid., p. 59.
231 “liked me personally”: McClellan, McClellan’s Own Story, p. 160.
231 “they would probably give more”: Letter of November 17, 1861, to his wife, McClellan, Papers, p. 136.
231 “a tall man with a navvy’s cap”: Russell, p. 317
231 “A minute passes”: Goodwin, p. 383.
232 August 16 to November 17, 1861 quotes from letters to Mrs. McClellan: Sears, The Young Napoleon, pp. 105, 106, 113-114, 135-6.
233 Heintzelman anecdote: Entry for November 11, 1861, Heintzelman Journal, from Gabor S. Boritt, ed., Lincoln’s Generals (NY: Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 12.
233 McClellan snub anecdote: Entry of November 13, 1861, Hay, Lincoln and the Civil War, p. 34-5.
233 “The Radicals had only the negro”: Sears, The Young Napoleon, p. 117.
234 “that sink of iniquity”: Letter of April 1, 1862, to his wife, McClellan, Papers, p. 223.
234 “Not one common soldier”: Lincoln, Works, p. IV: 321.
235 “aristocratical” and “exclusive”: Sister May Karl George, Zachariah Chandler: A Political Biography (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1969), p. 59.
235 ‘We absolutely need”: Entry of September 30, 1861, Bates, p. 194.
235 “They do it differently”: Entry of May 1861, Gurowski, Diary, 1861-1862, p. 44
236 “commonly presumed the abler”: December 4, 1861, New York Tribune, Mitgang, p. 276.
236 “Jeff Davis rides”: Harwell, Richard B., “Lincoln and the South,” Ralph G. Newman, ed., Lincoln for the Ages (Garden City: Doubleday, 1960), p. 203.
236 “He seems to be devoting himself”: Letter of October 12, 1861, Chandler to his wife, from Sears, The Young Napoleon, p. 119.
236 “I intend to be careful,” and “You shall have your own way”: Entry of October 10, Hay, Lincoln and the Civil War, p. 27.
237 “timid, vacillating and inefficient”: Letter of October 27, 1861, Chandler to his wife, from Donald, Lincoln, p. 318.
237 “fool”: Letter of October 25, 1861, Wade to his wife, from Hans Trefousse, Benjamin Franklin Wade: Radical Republican from Ohio (NY: Twayne Publishers, 1963), p. 154.
237 “You could not inspire Old Abe”: Letter of October 8, 1861, Wade to Zachary Chandler, from George, p. 55.
237 “It is now evident”: Entry of October 1, 1861, Bates, p. 196.
237 “What shall we do?”: Entry of November, 1861, Gurowski, Diary, 1861-1862, p. 117.
237 “Give the President”: Richard Wheeler, Sword Over Richmond: An Eyewitness History of McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign (NY: Harper & Row, 1986), p. 50.
237 “This evening the Jacobin Club”: Entry for October 26, 1861, Hay, Lincoln and the Civil War, p. 31.
237 “Lincoln means well”: Letter of November 16, 1861, Chandler to Henry W. Lord, from Trefousse, The Radical Republicans, p. 180-1.
237 “You must not fight”: Entry of October 26, 1861, Hay, Lincoln and the Civil War, p. 31.
237 “We have seen it” and “The most charitable”: Furgurson, p. 142.
Page 237 “with that sort of indifference”: Anthony Trollope, North America (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951), p. 325-6.
238 “Old Abe is now unmasked”: Garrison, p. 140.
239 “I reached Washingto
n last night”: Letter of November 6, 1861, Grimes to his wife, from Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 51.
“ill arranged”: December 17, 1861, London Times, Mitgang, p. 279.
239 “It is not a great State paper”: Reprinted in December 12, 1861, The Crisis.
240 “a fair picture”: December 14, 1861, London Saturday Review, from Robert Bloom, “As the British Press Saw Lincoln,” in Topic 9: A Journal of the Liberal Arts (Washington, PA: Washington and Jefferson College, Spring 1965), p. 46.
240: December 1861 Annual Message: Lincoln, Works, p. V: 49.
240 “reactionary and feeble”: Trefousse, The Radical Republicans, p. 181.
240 “when the time comes”: ibid., p. 58.
240 “There is no greatness”: Letter of December 8, 1861, Davis to his wife, from Perrett, p. 106.
240 “Not one single manly, bold, dignified position”: Letter of December 5, 1861, S. York to Trumbull, from Randall, Springfield to Gettysburg, p. II: 27.
240 “No man”: Letter of December 8, 1861, J.H. Bryant to Trumbull, from Randall, Lincoln the Liberal Statesman, p. 73.
240 “Let the administration continue”: Letter of December 17, 1861, John Russell to Trumbull, ibid., p. 72.
240 “Every one is disappointed”: Letter of December 10, 1861, P.A. Allaire to Trumbull, ibid., p. 67.
240 “lacks confidence”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. I: 390-1.
240 “What a wishy-washy message”: Letter of December 8, 1861, Garrison to Oliver Johnson, ibid., p. 27.
241 “I demand of the government”: Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 58.
241 “as a pint-pot may be full”: Poore, p. 106.
241 “A sort of bland, respectable middle-man”: ibid., p. 383-4.
241 “For the last three months”: Letter of Dec. 16, 1861, W.A. Baldwin to Trumbull, from Gray, p. 74-5.
241 “How many times”: Nevins, 1861-1862, p. 340.
242 “It is high time”: December 10, 11, and 23, New York Tribune, from Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 54.
242 “We will strike them there”: Swinton, p. 69.
242 “was in favor of sending for Jeff Davis”: Letter of October 27, 1861, Zachary Chandler to his wife, from Donald, Lincoln, p. 320.
243 “an active war”: January 13, 1862, Chicago Tribune, ibid., p. 81.
243 “We want the President”: Letter of January 23, 1862, G.S. Ward to W.P. Fessenden, ibid.
245 “I greatly fear”: Letter of January 15, 1862, James W. Stone to Salmon Chase, from Bruce Tap, Over Lincoln’s Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998), p. 109.
245 “I find that nearly a majority”: Letter of January 10, 1862, W.C. Dunning to Elihu Washburne, from Randall, Lincoln the Liberal Statesman, p. 76.
245 “nearly paralyzed”: Letter of February 4, 1862, John Russell to Lyman Trumbull, ibid. p. 67-8.
245: The Greeley Smithsonian lecture: Furgurson, p. 152.
Page 245 “I am confident”: Letter of January 31, 1862, J.W. Shaffer to Lyman Trumbull, ibid., p. 114.
245 “blundering, cowardly, and inefficient”: Letter of October 3, 1861, Benjamin Wade to Zachary Chandler, from George, p. 55.
245 “If the new year”: Entry for January 1862, Gurowski, Diary, 1861-1862, p. 137.
245 “Many of the deficiencies”: Entry for December 31, 1861, Bates, p. 218-220.
246 “For the first time”: Gienapp, p. 98.
246 “General, what shall I do?”: ibid.
Chapter 20: Democrats Disappear
247 “Mr. Lincoln is evidently a believer”: April 18, 1862, The New York Evening Day Book, Mitgang, p. 261.
247 “The so-called ‘peace policy’”: April 12, 1862, Bedford Gazette, from Brayton Harris, p. 43.
247 “Abraham Lincoln, a Tory”: April 18, 1862, Bangor Democrat, Mitgang, p. 257.
248 “there will now be but one party”: Fermer, p. 189.
248 “for a man to express doubt” and “prudent”: Stampp, And the War Came, p. 292.
248 “seize at once”: Sprague, p. 50.
249 “against whom no charges have been preferred”: August 1, 1861, Brooklyn Eagle.
249 “The Old Constitution has been superceded”: Cincinatti Enquirer, reprinted in August 1, 1861, Brooklyn Eagle.
250 “attempt to muzzle the Democratic press”: Jeffrey Manber and Neil Dahlstrom, Lincoln’s Wrath: Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scoundrels and a President’s Mission to Destroy the Press (Napierville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2005), p. 112.
250: List of 154 “peace” papers: August 12, 1861, New York Daily News, ibid., p. 121
250: Account of August anti-press riots: ibid., p. 118-122
251 “AN ACCOUNTING”: ibid., p. 3.
251 “All who do not shout hosannas”: ibid,, p. 130-131.
251 “disseminators of doctrines”: Brayton Harris, p. 98.
251 “The course which a despotic”: Manber and Dahlstrom, p. 171.
252 “This is not only”: Toronto Globe, reprinted in August 19, 1861, New York Times, ibid., p. 137-8.
252 “reign of terror,” “journals are suppressed,” “are gutted and destroyed,” and “no Neapolitan despotism”: September and October, 1861, Staunton (Va.) Spectator and Richmond Whig, from Ayers, p. 220.
252 “cross two columns over the Potomac”: Sprague, p.184.
253 “separating the sheep from the goats”: Seward, p. 177.
253 Maryland military arrests in September: Official Records, p. I: 5: 194-196.
253 “The action of the government”: September 14, 1861, Chicago Times.
254 Chicago Times, November 22, 1861
254 14,400 arrests: Mark E. Neely, Jr., “The Lincoln Administration and Arbitrary Arrests: A Reconsideration,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Vol. 5, No. 1, p. 8.
Chapter 21: A Military House Divided
255 “It has been said”: Lincoln, Works, p. V: 51.
255 “We were greatly surprised”: George W. Julian, Political Recollections: 1840 to 1872 (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Company, 1884), p. 201.
255 “remarkably bold and vigorous”: ibid., p. 202.
Page 256 “Mr. Lincoln took no part”: Wheeler, p. 63.
256 “if General McClellan did not want to use the army”: Henry J. Raymond, Life and Public Service of Abraham Lincoln (NY: Darby and Miller, 1865), p. 773.
257 Low opinion of Seward: Anthony Trollope, p. 240; also Dicey, p. 96.
257 “in any official matter”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. I: 434.
257 “openly discourteous to the President”: Notes for October 2, 1861, John G. Nicolay, Lincoln’s Secretary: A Biography of John G. Nicolay, ed. Helen Nicolay (NY: Longman’s, Green, and Co., 1949), p. 125.
257 “We want a great man”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. I: 441.
258 “did his best” and “The most disagreeable thing”: McClellan, McClellan’s Own Story, p. 152.
258 “that damned long-armed Ape”: Letter of January 6, 1887, William Herndon to Jesse Weik, from Randall, Springfield to Gettysburg, p. I: 39.
258 “If that giraffe appeared”: Thomas and Hyman, p. 66.
258 “a withering sneer” and “[Stanton] loved antagonism”: McClure, p. 170-171.
259 “My first inkling”: McClellan, McClellan’s Own Story, p. 155.
259 January 13 council account taken from Meigs’s account in Angle, p. 381; McDowell’s account in Swinton, p. 84-5; and McClellan’s account in McClellan, My Own Story, p. 156-7, and Sears, The Young Napoleon, p. 141.
260 “weak and wicked”: Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 108.
260 “And Lincoln is in their clutches”: Entry for January 1862, Gurowski, Diary, 1861-1862, p. 148.
260 “the champagne and oysters on the Potomac must be stopped”: Letter of January 24, 1862, Edwin Stanton to Charles Dana, from Russell H. Beatie, Army of the Potomac: McClellan Takes Command (Da Capo Press, 2004), p. 530.
261 “he was thinking of taking the field himself”: Entry of January 12, 1862, Orville Hickman Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, ed. Theodore Calvin Pease (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1925), p. I: 523.
261 “he must take these army matters”: Donald, Lincoln, p. 331.
262 “Are the President and Mrs. Lincoln aware”: Jerrold M. Packard, The Lincolns in the White House: Four Years That Shattered a Family (NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2005), p. 113-14.
262 “Well, anybody!”: Oates, p. 293.
263 “an ugly matter”: McClellan, McClellan’s Own Story, p. 195-6.
263 General War Order No. 2: Lincoln, Works, p. V: 149-150.
263 General War Order No. 3: ibid., p. V: 151.
264 “He surprised and delighted the committee”: Julian, p. 205.
265 “to tie my hands”: McClellan, McClellan’s Own Story, p. 225.
265 “The rascals are after me again”: Letter of March 11, 1862, to his wife, McClellan, Papers, p. 202.
265 “strongly suspected”: Julian, p. 205.
265 “It is no longer doubtful”: Letter of March 15, 1862, William Fessenden to his family, from Goodwin, p. 428.
265 “Gen. Mc C. is in danger”: Entry of April 3, 1862, Hay, Lincoln and the Civil War, p. 39.
265 “So far as ‘the pride’”: McClellan, McClellan’s Own Story, p. 142.
266 “[Lincoln] suggested several reasons”: ibid., p. 164.
266 “He assured me”: ibid., p.165.
266 “MY DEAR SIR”: Letter of March 31, 1862, Lincoln, Works, p. V: 176.
266 “[Lincoln] then assured me”: McCellan, McClellan’s Own Story, p. 165.
266 “By direction of the president”: McClellan, Papers, p. 229.
Page 266: Troops counts for the dispositions of McClellan’s defense of Washington: Official Records, p. I: 5: 61.
267 “miserable nests of petty intrigues”: Sears, The Young Napoleon, p. 127.
267 “[Stanton] had spoken to me”: McClellan, McClellan’s Own Story, p. 226.
267 “He was no general”: Mahood, p. 80-81.
267 “vile, traitorous miscreant”: ibid., p. 111.
268 “that sink of iniquity”: Letter of April 1, 1862, McClellan, Papers, p. 223.
268 “after glancing his eye”: Official Records, p. I: 5: 63.
269 “It is the most infamous thing”: Letter of April 6, 1862, McClellan, Papers, p. 240.
