Part 122 (1/2)

”urged by Chase”...felt it intensely: EBL to SPL, March 11, [1862], in Wartime Was.h.i.+ngton, ed. Laas, p. 109.

Frank Blair had delivered...of Blair's address: Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, pp. 8789; Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, pp. 10509.

The New York Tribune...”of the President”: MB to John C. Fremont, August 24, 1861, quoted in NYTrib, March 4, 1862.

”Brother just took...think of it again”: EBL to SPL, March 6, 1862, in Wartime Was.h.i.+ngton, ed. Laas, pp. 10506.

A grateful Monty Blair...”very well of it”: MB to FPB, March 12, 1862, box 7, folder 6, Blair-Lee Papers, NjP-SC.

approving Fremont's appointment...”opinion and action”: NYT, March 13, 1862.

Seward appreciated...at large: Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, pp. 5051.

”Somebody must be...the S. of S.”: WHS to TW, April 25, 1862, quoted in ibid., p. 88.

”The President...and practical”: WHS to TW, April 1, 1862, quoted in ibid., p. 81.

Count Gurowski despaired...”strategy?”: Entry for February 1862, in Gurowski, Diary from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862, pp. 156, 22627, 171 (quote).

by the middle of March...him of command: Allan Nevins, The War for the Union. Vol. II: War Becomes Revolution, 18621863 (1960; New York: Konecky & Konecky, undated reprint), p. 44.

Seward scorned...northern Virginia!: WHS, paraphrased in letter from Sam Ward to S. L. M. Barlow, March 27, 1862, in ibid.

While acknowledging...”'stationary' engine”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 255.

he confided to Browning...”orders to move”: Entry for April 2, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, pp. 53738.

twenty-four hours before...to Fort Monroe: Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, p. xi; Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 168.

presented a sight...”seldom seen”: Entry for March 16, 1862, in French, Witness to the Young Republic, p. 391.

”I will bring you...ofhis heart”: GBM to the Soldiers of the Army of the Potomac, March 14, 1862, quoted in NYT, March 16, 1862.

”information...defend the Capital”: EMS to Heman Dyer, May 18, 1862, reel 3, Stanton Papers, DLC.

”explicit order...entirely secure”: AL to GBM, April 9, 1862, in CW, V, p. 184.

Stanton referred...”wrath of his friends”: EMS to Heman Dyer, May 18, 1862, reel 3, Stanton Papers, DLC.

McClellan advanced...constructing earthworks: Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, pp. 3662; Todd Anthony Rosa, ”Peninsula Campaign,” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 1483.

”You now have...as you can”: AL to GBM, April 6, 1862, in CW, V, p. 182.

”he had better come & do it himself”: GBM to MEM, April 8, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 234.

”the enemy...strong batteries”: GBM and EMS paraphrased in entry of April 9, 1862, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 249.

”It is indispensable...But you must act”: AL to GBM, April 9, 1862, in CW, V, p. 185.

”Do not misunderstand...batteries built”: GBM to AL, April 23, 1862, Lincoln Papers.