Part 124 (1/2)
the Seven Days Battles: For a detailed description of the Seven Days Battles, see Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, pp. 181336.
Federals dead, wounded, and missing: Ibid., pp. 34445.
”vastly superior...where it belongs”: GBM to EMS, June 25, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, pp. 30910.
”pains me...if I would”: AL to GBM, June 26, 1862, in CW, V, p. 286.
neither McClellan nor Lincoln was able to sleep: Entry for July 5, 1862, in Dahlgren, Memoir of John A. Dahlgren, p. 375; Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 209.
Gaines' Mill...McClellan to retreat: Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, pp. 21350; Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 212.
”I now know...sacrifice this army”: GBM to EMS, June 28, 1862, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XI, p. 61.
When the supervisor of telegrams...it to Stanton: Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, pp. 10910.
McClellan's troops remained a strong: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 468.
Malvern Hill: Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, pp. 30836.
”He was simply out-generaled”: Christopher Wolcott to Pamphila Stanton Wolcott, July 2, 1862, in Wolcott, ”Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 157a.
he continued to retreat: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 470; Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, p. 338.
CHAPTER 17: ”WE ARE IN THE DEPTHS”
”We are in the...gloomy thinking”: Entry for July 14, 1862, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 241.
manifesting an anxiety...”more momentous”: Iowa State Register, Des Moines, July 16, 1862.
”the gloomiest...so low”: Entry for July 4, 1862, in Gurowski, Diary from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862, p. 235.
”the past has been...the war began”: JGN to TB, July 13, 1862, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
”It is a startling...sustain a spirit”: WHS to FS, August 2, 1862, in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, pp. 12021.
”Since the rebellion...taken Richmond”: SPC to Richard C. Parsons, July 20, 1862, reel 21, Chase Papers.
”The house seemed...you were gone”: SPC to KCS, June 24, 1862, reel 21, Chase Papers.
many long letters: SPC to KCS, June 24, 25, 29, and 30, July 1, 2 and 4, 1862, reel 21, Chase Papers.
”a mark of love and...on many points”: SPC to KCS, July 6, 1862, reel 21, Chase Papers.
”All your letters...very good”: SPC to KCS, July 4, 1862, reel 21, Chase Papers.
concealed her unhappiness...”So with us it came”: William Sprague to KCS, May 27, 1866, Sprague Papers.
”My confidence...and so will I”: SPC to KCS, July 6, 1862, reel 21, Chase Papers.