Part 123 (1/2)

”called up by...behind his back”: Entry for April 19, 1862, in Madeline Vinton Dahlgren, Memoir of John A. Dahlgren, Rear-Admiral United States Navy (Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1882), p. 364 n2.

”muscular power...in vain to imitate him”: Viele, ”A Trip with Lincoln, Chase, and Stanton,” Scribners Monthly (1878), pp. 81516.

pored over maps...around Virginia: Ibid., p. 815; William E. Baringer, ”On Enemy Soil: President Lincoln's Norfolk Campaign,” Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 7 (March 1952), p. 6.

Union forces at Fort Monroe: ”Map of Hampton Roads and Adjacent Sh.o.r.e,” in John Taylor Wood, ”The First Fight of Iron-Clads,” in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. I, Part 2, p. 699. The mouths of the James, Nansemond, and Elizabeth rivers all converge at Hampton Roads.

Merrimac...devastating engagements: Gene A. Smith, ”Monitor versus Virginia (8 March 1862),” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 1348. Although the Confederates had rechristened the ironclad the CSS Virginia, the vessel continued to be known by its previous name, the Merrimac.

”It is a disgrace...cannot cope”: Montgomery C. Meigs, quoted in Gorham, Life and Public Services of Edwin M. Stanton, Vol. I, p. 371.

An emergency cabinet meeting...”presence”: Niven, Gideon Welles, p. 403.

Monitor...”cheese box on a raft”: Entry for October 10, 1862, in French, Witness to the Young Republic, p. 412.

”a pigmy to a giant”: NYT, March 14, 1862 (quote); NYT, March 11, 1862.

When Stanton learned...”with diamonds”: NYT, March 16, 1862.

”The ringing of those plates”: Herman Melville, ”A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight,” in The Works of Herman Melville, Vol. XVI (London: Constable & Co., 1924), pp. 44, 45.

huddled over maps...Navy Yard vulnerable: Baringer, ”On Enemy Soil,” ALQ 7 (1952), p. 8; Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol. I: Fort Sumter to Perryville (New York: Random House, 1958; New York: Vintage Books, 1986), p. 414.

Lincoln and his little group...”Treasury to follow”: SPC to Janet Chase Hoyt, May 7, 1862, reel 20, Chase Papers.

one leg permanently damaged: Wolcott, ”Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 131.

Goldsborough approved...across the water: Foote, The Civil War, Vol. I, p. 414.

”a smoke curled...turned back”: SPC to Janet Chase Hoyt, May 8, 1862, quoted in Warden, Private Life and Public Services, p. 428.

each personally surveyed...delay the attack: SPC to Janet Chase Hoyt, May 11, 1862, reel 20, Chase Papers; Baringer, ”On Enemy Soil,” ALQ (1952), pp. 1518.

Chase, accompanying...of the region: SPC to Janet Chase Hoyt, May 11, 1862, reel 20, Chase Papers.

”The night was very...of mere appearances”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 10405.

reporters noted...bouts of vertigo: Philadelphia Inquirer, May 13, 1862.

”one of the strangest...military history”: Foote, The Civil War, Vol. I, p. 413.

”So has ended...now virtually ours”: SPC to Janet Chase Hoyt, May 11, 1862, reel 20, Chase Papers.

”Norfolk...my movements”: GBM to MEM, May 10, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 262.

Welles invited...”field gla.s.ses and maps”: FWS to FAS, undated letter, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 89.

enjoyed an easy camaraderie...with one another: Mary Jane Welles to Edgar T. Welles, May 19, 1862, typescript, reel 34, Welles Papers.

Seward...composed a humorous poem: Entry for May 19, 1862, in Dahlgren, Memoir of John A. Dahlgren, p. 368.