Part 128 (1/2)
”What is the stake?...cause also”: WHS to FAS[?], August 21, 1862, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 124.
a comet appeared in the northern sky: NR, August 27, 1862.
”When beggars die”: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act II, sc.
2. 474 Although McClellan agreed...”leave of absence!”: Sears, George B. McClellan, pp. 25256; GBM to MEM, August 24, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 404 (quote).
”Pope is beaten...Washn again”: GBM to MEM, August 23, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 400.
”the smell of the gunpowder...perceptible”: Star, August 30, 1862.
”distant thunder”: NR, September 1, 1862.
gathered on street corners...rumors flew: Leech, Reveille in Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 188; entry for September 3, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 106.
”Stonewall Jackson...about equal proportions”: NR, September 1, 1862.
”prepared to stay all night, if necessary”: Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, p. 118.
He wired various generals...news from Mana.s.sas: AL to Ambrose Burnside, August 29, 1862, in CW, V, p. 398; Lincoln to Herman Haupt, August 29, 1862, in ibid., p. 399; Lincoln to GBM, August 29, 1862 in ibid.; Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, pp. 11921.
The president now had...”perfectly safe”: GBM to AL, August 29, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
John Hay met the president...”his own sc.r.a.pe”: ”[1 September 1862, Monday],” in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, pp. 3637.
McClellan's delay...”my opinion, required”: EMS to Henry W. Halleck, August 28, 1862, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XII, Part III, p. 706; Henry W. Halleck to EMS, August 30, 1862, in ibid., p. 739 (quote).
”like throwing water...that in writing”: SPC, paraphrased in entry for September 1, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 102.
Stanton volunteered...agreement regarding McClellan: Entries for August 2930, 1862, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, pp. 36667.
”Never before...sink into contempt”: EB to Hamilton Gamble, September 1, 1862, Bates Papers, Mos.h.i.+.
written in Stanton's distinctive back-sloping script: Entry for September 1, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 100.
”unwilling to be...commanded by General Pope”: Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, pp. 17677.
Smith was persuaded...to Blair or anyone else: Entry for August 31, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 9395. Howard Beale has identified some of the language included in the 1911 edition of Welles's published diary as having been added later to the original ma.n.u.script diary. See Beale's emendations in individual diary entries for subsequent changes made in Welles's diary.
Stanton had invited Lincoln...”glad tidings at sunrise”: ”[1 September 1862, Monday],” in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 37.
When Welles stopped by...”disrespectful to the President”: Entry for August 31, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 9598 (quotes pp. 9798).
”had called us...against him”: Entry for September 1, 1862, ibid., pp. 10102.
”he knew of no particular”...cabal against the president: Entry for August 31, 1862, ibid., p. 98.
”about Eight oclock...'I am afraid'”: ”[1 September 1862, Monday],” in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, pp. 3738.
As rumors spread...16,000 casualties: ”5 September 1862, Friday,” in ibid., p. 38; FWS to WHS, September 1, 1862, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 126; McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 532.