"discourage all...I believe he would do it": William Tec.u.mseh Sherman, Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875; New York: Penguin Books, 2000), pp. 17576.
a "renewed patriotism": NYT, July 23, 1861.
"Let no loyal...greater efforts": Chicago Tribune, July 23, 1861.
Several papers compared: Chicago Tribune, July 23, 1861; NYTrib, reprinted in Star, July 27, 1861.
"The spirit of...facilities for defence": NYT, July 26, 1861.
could "take comfort": Philadelphia Inquirer, July 25, 1861.
CHAPTER 14: "I DO NOT INTEND TO BE SACRIFICED"
"Nothing but a patent...at last": James Russell Lowell, "General McClellan"s Report (1864)," in The Writings of James Russell Lowell. Vol. V: Political Essays (Cambridge, Ma.s.s.: The Riverside Press, 1871; 1890), pp. 94, 99.
when he arrived...Army of the Potomac: Entry for July 27, 1861, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, p. 101.
Among the Union"s...the Mexican War: See chapter 1 of Stephen W. Sears, George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988).
defeated a guerrilla band: Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 80.
"the man on horseback": Entry for July 27, 1861, in Russell, My Diary North and South, p. 480.
"a more martial look": Entry for July 1861, in Gurowski, Diary from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862, p. 76.
drunken soldiers...troops wander the city: Entry for July 27, 1861, in Russell, My Diary North and South, p. 479; Star, July 31, 1861.
"You have no idea...such yelling": GBM to MEM, [September 11, 1861], in The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, Selected Correspondence, 18611865, ed. Stephen W. Sears (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1989), p. 98.
"the great obstacle": GBM to MEM, August 9, 1861, in ibid., 81.
"entirely insufficient...in our front": GBM to Winfield Scott, August 8, 1861, in ibid., p. 80.
Scott was furious...opposition forces: Winfield Scott to Simon Cameron, August 9, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
It would not be...miscalculations: Sears, George B. McClellan, pp. 103, 109.
discord...continued to escalate: GBM to AL, August 10, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 82; GBM to MEM, September 27, 1861, in ibid., pp. 10304.
"concentric pressure": Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 98.
"crush...in one campaign": GBM to MEM, August 2, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 74.
"result...in my hands": GBM to MEM, August 9, 1861, in ibid., pp. 8182.
"by some strange...of the land": GBM to MEM, July 27, 1861, in ibid., p. 70.
"the people call...country is saved": GBM to MEM, August 9, 1861, in ibid., pp. 8182.
Scott was "a perfect imbecile...a traitor": GBM to MEM, August 8, 1861, in ibid., p. 81.
"eternal jealousy...distinction": GBM to MEM, October 6, 1861, in ibid., p. 106.
"The remedy...small of the back": Winfield Scott to Simon Cameron (copy), October 4, 1861, reel 1, Stanton Papers, DLC.
McClellan"s headquarters: Entry for September 2, 1861, in Russell, My Diary North and South, pp. 52021; Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 100.
"smoking...writing": Entry for September 2, 1861, in Russell, My Diary North and South, p. 520.
"I have just been...stories to tell": GBM to MEM, October 16, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 107.
"together...mortals": Entry for November 1861, in Gurowski, Diary from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862, p. 123.
"lying down, very much fatigued": Brigadier Van Vliet, quoted in entry for October 9, 1861, in Russell, My Diary North and South, p. 552.
magnificent reviews of more than fifty thousand troops: Frank Leslie"s Ill.u.s.trated Newspaper, October 5, 1861; JGN to TB, November 21, 1861, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
"not a mistake...a hitch": GBM to MEM, November 20, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 137.
"A long time...not mind that": GBM to MEM, October 6, 1861, in ibid., p. 106.
"a slave-catching order"...their masters: Entry for September 1861, in Gurowski, Diary from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862, p. 95.
"fighting to preserve...to do with him": GBM to Samuel L. M. Barlow, November 8, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 128.
"some of the greatest...of Job": GBM to MEM, October 10, 1861, in ibid., p. 106.
"a meddling...old woman": GBM to MEM, October 11, 1861, in ibid., pp. 10607.
"an old fool...altogether fancy him!": GBM to MEM, October 31, 1861, in ibid., p. 114.
a flattering letter...promotion to major general: SPC to GBM, July 7, 1861, quoted in Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, p. 427.
engagement at Ball"s Bluff: Entry for October 21, 1861, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, p. 129.
"a slight demonstration...move them": GMB to Charles P. Stone, October 20, 1861, quoted in note 2 of GBM to Stone, October 21, 1861, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 109.
casualties at Ball"s Bluff: "Return of casualties in the Union forces in the engagement at Ball"s Bluff, Virginia, October 21, 1861," OR, Ser. 1, Vol. V, p. 308.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.... home to recover: SPC to KCS, July 28, 1865, reel 35, Chase Papers.
"the death...a desert": Noah Brooks, "Recollections of Abraham Lincoln," Harper"s New Monthly Magazine 31 (July 1865), p. 228.
"Mr. Lincoln sat"...and kissed him: Benjamin Rush Cowen, Abraham Lincoln: An Appreciation by One Who Knew Him (Cincinnati, Ohio: Robert Clarke Co., 1909), pp. 2930.
Eckert...received word: Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, pp. 9596.