Part 125 (1/2)

”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 Was.h.i.+ngton, 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...crus.h.i.+ng 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 Was.h.i.+ngton,” August 6, 1862, in CW, V, pp. 35859.