Part 129 (1/2)

”Our victory was...so completely”: GBM to MEM, September 20, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 473.

Lincoln was thrilled...and allowed Lee to cross: AL to GBM, September 15, 1862, CW, V, p. 426; GBM to Henry W. Halleck, September 19 and 20, 1862, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, pp. 470, 475.

”At last our Generals...National crisis”: NYT, September 18, 1862.

”Sept. 17...of its downfall”: NYT, September 20, 1862.

On September 22...”a graver tone”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 24; entry for September 22, 1862, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 393 (quote); EMS, quoted by Judge Hamilton Ward in interview in the Lockport Journal, May 21, 1893, reprinted in Whipple, The Story-Life of Lincoln, p. 421.

reminding his colleagues...”to my Maker”: AL, quoted in entry for September 22, 1862, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, pp. 39394.

”there were occasions...the Supreme Will”: Welles, ”History of Emanc.i.p.ation,” Galaxy (1872), p. 847.

not seeking ”advice”...suggestions on language: AL, paraphrased in entry for September 22, 1862, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 394.

”made a very emphatic...the measure”: Welles, ”History of Emanc.i.p.ation,” Galaxy (1872), p. 846.

Blair reiterated...the fall elections: Entry for September 22, 1862, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 395.

”maintain...present President”?: WHS, quoted in entry for September 22, 1862, in ibid., p. 394.

”it was not my way...take this ground”: AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 2324.

”I can only trust...never forget them”: AL, ”Reply to Serenade in Honor of Emanc.i.p.ation Proclamation,” September 24, 1862, in CW, V, p. 438.

proceeded to Chase's house...”that horrible name”: ”[24 September 1862, Wednesday],” in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 41 (quote); entry for September 24, 1862, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 399; NYT, September 25, 1862.

”in the meanest...evoke a generous thrill”: Entry for September 23, 1862, in Gurowski, Diary from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862, p. 278.

”did not...of a single negro”: Fessenden, paraphrased in entry for November 28, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 587.

”We shout for joy...confide in his word”: Dougla.s.s' Monthly (October 1862).

”My word is out...take it back”: AL, quoted in George S. Boutwell, Speeches and Papers Relating to the Rebellion and the Overthrow of Slavery (Boston: Little, Brown, 1867), p. 362.

”render eternal...the two sections”: The Times (London), quoted in NYT, September 30, 1862.

Richmond Enquirer charged...”plots their death”: Richmond Enquirer, October 1, 1862, quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer, October 6, 1862.

”said he had studied...than they did”: ”[24 September 1862, Wednesday],” in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 41.

”be enthusiastically...great act of the age”: Hannibal Hamlin to AL, September 25, 1862, Lincoln Papers.

”while commendation...not very satisfactory”: AL to Hannibal Hamlin, September 28, 1862, in CW, V, p. 444.

”Stanton must leave...old place to me”: GBM to MEM, September 20, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 476.

he would resign...”a servile insurrection”: GBM to MEM, September 25, [1862], in ibid., p. 481.

McClellan drafted a letter...not to send the letter: Sears, George B. McClellan, pp. 32627.