"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. 7374.
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. 34445; NYH, July 11, 1862.
"Mr. Lincoln rode...stove-pipe hat": NYT, July 11, 1862.
"entangled...has been universal": Rev. Joseph H. Twich.e.l.l, "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. 31213.
Halleck"s victories...widely respected: "Halleck, Henry Wager (18151872)," 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, 18591866, 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. 35859.
"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. 45.
"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. 910.
"helped him...attorney in Illinois": Ibid., pp. 15 (quote), 8182.
"daily habit...in the District": Sat.u.r.day 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 ma.s.sive project of...military hospitals: see NR, June 1723, 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.