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“The City seems to be entirely full”: ibid., March 8, 1862.

McClellan exploded: McClellan,
McClellan’s Own Story,
p. 196.

“the undying hate”: McClellan to Halleck, March 3, 1862.

“just pitch in”: Sears,
George B. McClellan,
p. 160.

“fight should have been at Manassas”: Browning diary, June 18, 1862.

“a house submerged”: quoted in Greene and Massignani,
Ironclads at War: The Origin and Development of the Armored Warship, 1854–1891,
p. 61.

the Confederate ship
Virginia:
Gene A. Smith, “CSS Virginia,” in Heidler and Heidler, eds.,
Encyclopedia of the Civil War,
pp. 2034–36.

this was the day: cf. John T. Wood, “The First Fight of Iron-Clads,” in
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,
Vol. 1, pp. 692–711.

“Since I sent in my message”: Nicolay diary, March 9, 1862.

“One thought she would go”: ibid.

“thin and wasted”: Dahlgren diary, March 9, 1862.

“a caged lion”: Nicolay diary, March 9, 1862; Welles diary, pp. 61–67.

an utterly original design: Gene A. Smith, “Monitor,” in Heidler and Heidler, eds.,
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War,
pp. 1346–47.

“incredulity and contempt”: Welles diary, pp. 61–67.

“like a pygmy”: Wood, “The First Fight of Iron-Clads,” p. 701.

“a thousand years of battle and breeze”: Ibid., p. 692. For further details of the battle, see also S. D. Greene, “In the ‘Monitor’ Turret,” in
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,
Vol. 1, pp. 719–29.

“snapping my thumb”: Wood, “The First Fight of Iron-Clads,” p. 701.

“Iron will be King”: L. M. Powell to Gustavus V. Fox, April 4, 1862, in
Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1861–1865,
Vol. 2, p. 287.

good news … followed by even more: Nicolay diary, March 9, 1862.

“most excited and impressive”: Nicolay and Hay,
Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. 5, p. 226.

emancipation was already started: cf.
RW,
p. 123.

panel of border state congressmen: Guelzo,
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation,
pp. 105–6.

“touched the hem”:
RW,
p. 356.

“good faith” answer: ibid., pp. 121–22.

“sink or swim with you”: Bates diary, March 15, 1862.

Why … block the Potomac again?: Welles diary, pp. 61–67.

“Great ignorance”: Bates diary, March 11, 1862.

“Stanton is exceedingly industrious”:
Lincoln Observed: The Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks,
p. 47.

his experience of the Stanton style: William F. Roelofson to Thomas Ewing, Sr., Aug. 14, 1862, Ewing Family Papers, Box 14, No. 5100, Library of Congress Manuscript Division.

main telegraph moved: Bates,
Lincoln in the Telegraph Office: Recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps During the Civil War,
pp. 132–37.

“Let him wait”: quoted in Burlingame,
Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. 2, p. 197.

President’s Special War Order No. 3: Hay diary, pp. 35–36.

“Forget it”: Goodwin,
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,
pp. 429–30.

“prompt, full, and frequent reports”:
CW,
Vol. 5, p. 155.

“end of the rebellion”:
New York Times,
March 12, 1862.

“a fool’s errand”: Bates diary, March 13, 1862.

McClellan … was delighted: Rafuse,
McClellan’s War,
p. 193.

“the brightest passage of my life”: McClellan to Samuel Barlow, March 16, 1862.

“showed me my weakness”: quoted in Goodwin,
Team of Rivals,
pp. 422–23.

“distressed and pale”: French diary, March 23, 1862.

“Tad and I have fixed”: Randall,
Lincoln’s Sons,
pp. 133–34;
CW,
Vol. 5, p. 154.

“depression of spirits”: Boyden,
Echoes from Hospital and White House,
pp. 58–62.

Mary pressed a picture: ibid.

“stand firm”:
ibid.

The emperor wanted to talk: Dayton to Seward, March 25 and 26, 1862.

“France would have nothing to do with it”: ibid., March 31, 1862.

“The period of inaction has passed”: “To the Army of the Potomac,” in
The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan,
p. 211.

“Numerous steam-tugs”: Warren Lee Goss, “Campaigning to No Purpose,” in
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,
Vol. 2, p. 159.

“stride of a giant”: quoted in Sears,
George B. McClellan,
pp. 168–69.

To accomplish this: McClellan to Stanton, March 19, 1862.

“We began to fear”:
RW,
p. 148.

“a tool of Jeff Davis”: Ellen Ewing Sherman to Thomas Ewing, Jr., March 20, 1862, Ewing Family Papers, Box 67; Stanton to Thomas Ewing, Sr., April 2, 1862, Ewing Family Papers, Box 67, Library of Congress Manuscript Division.

meeting with Orville Browning: Browning diary, April 2, 1862.

McClellan’s long relationship with … Davis: ibid.

“The government seems doomed”: Stanton to Thomas Ewing, Sr., April 2, 1862, Ewing Family Papers, Box 67, Library of Congress Manuscript Division.

“raw men timid”: Sherman,
Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman,
p. 249.

“the task is so gigantic”: Sherman to Thomas Ewing, Jr., April 4, 1862.

5: APRIL

“Albert Sidney Johnston”: P. Roland Charles, “Albert Sidney Johnston,” in Heidler and Heidler, eds.,
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War,
pp. 1081–83.

“the great strategic position”: Grant,
Memoirs and Selected Letters,
p. 222.

Johnston decided to strike: Davis,
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government,
Vol. 2, p. 50.

“wild birds in great numbers”: Wheeler,
Voices of the Civil War,
pp. 88–89.

believing that the Confederates were dispirited: Grant,
Memoirs and Selected Letters,
p. 223.

“the first great modern battle”: Foote,
The Civil War,
Vol. 1, p. 338.

“I think I have seen enough”: Wheeler,
Voices of the Civil War,
p. 89.

“perhaps a dozen officers arrested”: Grant to Jesse R. Grant, April 26, 1862.

Prentiss and his troops repulsed: Hattaway and Jones,
How the North Won,
p. 168.

valuable hours of daylight: Wheeler,
Voices of the Civil War,
pp. 95–96.

“Lick ’em tomorrow”: Smith,
Grant,
pp. 200–201.

more casualties in two days at Shiloh: Foote,
The Civil War,
Vol. 1, p. 351.

begin shooting the stragglers: ibid., p. 344.

the “jealousy of Gen. Buell”: cf. Sherman to John Sherman, May 12, 1862: “Grant had been expecting Buell a whole week before he arrived.” Also Nicolay and Hay,
Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. 5, p. 318.

Carroll struck preemptively: Catton,
Grant Moves South,
pp. 251–52.

A line had been crossed: cf. Smith,
Grant,
p. 204 and 204n.

“stepping on dead bodies”: Grant,
Memoirs and Selected Letters,
pp. 238–39.

“like shooting into a flock of sheep”: quoted in McDonough,
Shiloh, in Hell Before Night,
p. 156.

“valley of death”: Ambrose Bierce, “What I Saw of Shiloh,” in
Civil War Stories,
pp. 13–14.

“break the heart of the rebellion”: Bates diary, April 9, 1862.

“the horrid nature of this war”: Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, April 11, 1862.

“except by complete conquest”: Grant,
Memoirs and Selected Letters,
p. 246.

“breaks up the rebel cause”: McClellan to Lincoln, April 20, 1862.

McClellan was “astonished”: McClellan to Louis M. Goldsborough, April 5, 1862.

“In my deliberate judgment”: McClellan to Lincoln, April 5, 1862.

“the most infamous thing”: McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, April 6, 1862.

Nothing was turning out: Rafuse,
McClellan’s War,
pp. 203–5; McClellan to Ambrose Burnside, May 21, 1862.

Lincoln scolded:
CW,
Vol. 5, p. 182.

“do it himself”: McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, April 8, 1862.

“I need all the aid”: McClellan to Lincoln, April 6, 1862.

“Do you really think”:
CW,
Vol. 5, pp. 184–85.

the moment … was slipping away: Sears,
George B. McClellan,
p. 179.

Porter went floating away:
Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey Written and Illustrated by Private Robert Knox Sneden,
April 12, 1862.

“You can imagine”: McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, April 11, 1862.

defrauding the government: Browning diary, March 3, 1862.

“dress in costly materials”: quoted in Randall,
Mary Lincoln,
pp. 346–47.

“Mrs. L is awfully
Western
”: quoted in Seale,
The President’s House,
Vol. 1, p. 363.

“She wanted what she wanted”: Bayne,
Tad Lincoln’s Father,
p. 49.

three hundred pairs of kid gloves: Browning diary, July 3, 1873.

Following his disturbing meeting: Michael Burlingame, “Honest Abe, Dishonest Mary,” Historical Bulletin Number 50, Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, 1994, pp. 15–20.

White House stationery budget: Miers,
Lincoln Day by Day,
Vol. 3, April 4, 1862.

“kiss mine”: quoted in Goodwin,
Team of Rivals,
p. 401.

“The devil is abroad”: ibid.

Reverend Francis L. Vinton: Mary Lincoln to Francis L. Vinton, April 13, 1862; Morgan Dix, “Memorial Sermon,” in
Francis L. Vinton, Priest and Doctor,
pp. 13–43.

“good enough for tabby”: Burlingame,
Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. 2, p. 261.

“‘When shall I awake’”:
RW,
p. 330.

story of a mysterious letter: Boyden,
Echoes from Hospital and White House,
pp. 67–70.

a beautiful Friday: Taft diary, April 4, 1862.

went for a ride:
New York Times,
April 5, 1862.

“in wild excitement”: Taft diary, April 9, 1862.

a national day of thanksgiving:
CW,
Vol. 5, pp. 185–86.

a double game: Crook,
Diplomacy During the American Civil War,
pp. 64–65.

hive of Confederate sympathizers: Seward to Adams, May 2, 1862.

formal protest … blind eye: Adams to Russell, March 25, 1862; Russell to Adams, March 27, 1862.

“change of policy”: Adams to Seward, April 11, 1862.

A wild rumor: Bates diary, April 11, 1862.

a long memorandum for Adams: Seward to Adams, April 14, 1862.

The two men had a long talk: Adams to Seward, April 25, 1862.

“The North fights for supremacy”: Dayton to Seward, May 26, 1862, with attachment from
Le Constitutionnel,
May 23, 1862.

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