Part 113 (1/2)
”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.