Rise to Greatness (70 page)

9: AUGUST

always close the door: Stoddard,
Lincoln’s Third Secretary,
pp. 100–101.

rise from washed-up congressman: See, for example, Beveridge,
Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. 2,
1809–1858,
pp. 362–442; Carwardine,
Lincoln;
Fehrenbacher,
Prelude to Greatness;
Harris,
Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency;
Holzer,
Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President.

“shrewdest of long, hawk-nosed”: Stoddard,
Lincoln’s Third Secretary,
pp. 100–101.

“Lincoln used to tell us”: quoted in
An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln,
p. 61.

“intelligent political strategy”: Carwardine,
Lincoln,
pp. 272–74.

“I half wondered why”: Stoddard,
Lincoln’s Third Secretary,
pp. 101–2.

“The problem was”: Anonymous,
Chronicle of the Union League of Philadelphia: 1862–1902,
p. 35.

“A number of army contractors”: Stoddard,
Lincoln’s Third Secretary,
pp. 101–2.

painstakingly distributing these fruits: Chase diary, August 1862. The extensive work by Lincoln and Chase devoted to choosing new officeholders under the 1862 internal revenue bill is a recurring theme of Chase’s diary during this period.

one typically bombastic pronouncement: “The Liberty of the Citizen,” in
Speeches of Daniel W. Voorhees, of Indiana, Embracing His Most Prominent Forensic, Political, Occasional and Literary Addresses,
p. 94.

“Yet it seems unreasonable”:
CW,
Vol. 5, pp. 355–56.

Philadelphia … City Bounty Fund: Gallman,
Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War,
p. 18.

Fifty-three men … in the Flint Hills: Thomas Ewing, Jr. to Ellen Ewing, Aug. 17, 1862, Ewing Family Papers, Box 67, Library of Congress Manuscript Division.

“men of the first character”: Thomas Ewing, Jr., to Thomas Ewing, Sr., Aug. 23, 1862, Ewing Family Papers, Box 14, No. 5111, Library of Congress Manuscript Division.

eighteen thousand per week: Dahlgren diary, Aug. 17, 1862; Welles diary, Aug. 22, 1862.

Lincoln pleaded for more troops:
CW,
Vol. 5, pp. 368 (to Andrew G. Curtin) and 393 (to Richard Yates).

French, surveyed the throng: French diary, Aug. 6, 1862.

“Hadn’t I better say a few words”: Chase diary, Aug. 6, 1862.

“Fellow citizens!”:
CW,
Vol. 5, pp. 358–59.

“greatly disappointed”:
New-York Daily Tribune,
Aug. 7, 1862, p. 4.

Chase, however, was impressed: Chase diary, Aug. 6, 1862.

waiting for supplies: Foote,
The Civil War,
Vol. 1, pp. 564–65.

Instead of a strike force: Hattaway and Jones,
How the North Won,
pp. 214–18.

“The remainder of the magnificent army”: Grant,
Memoirs and Selected Letters,
pp. 263–65.

the life of a bureaucrat: Grant to Elihu Washburne, July 22, 1862.

Grant’s soldiers were furious: Grant,
Memoirs and Selected Letters,
p. 267.

if Chase … believed: Grant to Chase, July 31, 1862.

“England [wants] … cotton”: quoted in Browning diary, July 25, 1862.

Spiraling prices: McPherson,
Battle Cry of Freedom,
pp. 437–42.

“Give your paper mill”: Nicolay, quoted in
An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln,
p. 90.

Seward rattled … the swords: Seward to Adams, Aug. 13, 1862.

“construction of iron-clad ships”: ibid.

“impossible to overestimate”: Adams to Seward, July 31, 1862.

McClellan did not start: Sears,
George B. McClellan,
pp. 242–48.

“I am to have a sweat”: Dahlgren diary, Aug. 19, 1862.

“so uneasy”: quoted in Hattaway and Jones,
How the North Won,
pp. 223–24.

A heat wave: Welles diary, Aug. 8 and 10, 1862.

a bit of relief: Dahlgren diary, Aug. 7, 1862.

A second American Revolution: McPherson,
Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution,
pp. 3–22.

“sensitive and even irritable”: Nicolay and Hay,
Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. 6, pp. 147–58.

a letter published on August 20 … Greeley:
New-York Daily Tribune,
Aug. 20, 1862.

“I would save the Union”:
CW,
Vol. 5, pp. 388–89.

“the turkey buzzards”: quoted in Kate Masur, “The African American Delegation to Abraham Lincoln: A Reappraisal,”
Civil War History
45, no. 2 (June 2010), pp. 117–44.

Frederick Douglass … argued: ibid.

head servant, William Slade: ibid.

a formidable group: ibid.

“Why should they leave”:
CW,
Vol. 5, pp. 370–75.

“better for us both”: ibid.

“behind the Sumner lighthouse”: quoted in Brodie,
Thaddeus Stevens, Scourge of the South,
p. 161.

“Many of us have sold”: Masur, “The African American Delegation,” p. 121.

“Mrs. L … is not well”:
CW,
Vol. 5, p. 386.

“Oh Little Aleck”: quoted in Baker,
Mary Todd Lincoln,
p. 223.

Colchester’s séance: ibid., pp. 220–22; Pinsker,
Lincoln’s Sanctuary,
pp. 30–32; Randall,
Mary Lincoln,
pp. 261–65.

“a very slight veil”: quoted in Baker,
Mary Todd Lincoln,
p. 220.

A headline in New York:
New-York Tribune,
Aug. 19, 1862.

Lincoln went … to the telegraph room: Bates,
Lincoln in the Telegraph Office,
p. 118.

“Do you hear any thing?”:
CW,
Vol. 5, pp. 395–96.

four hungry young Sioux: Cox,
Lincoln and the Sioux Uprising of 1862,
pp. 15–20.

“All the white soldiers”: ibid., pp. 20–26.

Thorns of grievance and honor: ibid., pp. 50–52, 67–69.

“panic” … “a wild panic”:
CW,
Vol. 5, pp. 396–67n.

“Necessity knows no law”: ibid., pp. 396–67.

“Pope will be thrashed”: McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, Aug. 10, 1862.

“I believe I have triumphed!!”: ibid., Aug. 21, 1862.

Little Mac … couldn’t comply: McClellan to Halleck, Aug. 27, 1862, 1:15
P.M.

“no time for details”: Halleck to McClellan, Aug. 27, 1862, 4
P.M.

with … Halleck until three
A.M.
: McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, Aug. 28, 1862.

Better to concentrate: McClellan to Halleck, multiple telegrams, Aug. 28, 1862.

“Not a moment must be lost”: Halleck to McClellan, Aug. 28, 1862, 3:30
P.M.

“no further delay”: ibid., 7:40
P.M.

explained to a flabbergasted Halleck: McClellan to Halleck, Aug. 29, 1862, 8
P.M.

Fitz John Porter: United States War Department,
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies,
Series 1, Vol. 12, Supplement.

“What news” … “What news?”:
CW,
Vol. 5, pp. 398–402.

“one of two courses”: McClellan to Lincoln, Aug. 29, 1862, 2:45
P.M.

Lincoln was “very outspoken”: Hay diary, Sept. 1, 1862.

Stanton was so furious: Chase diary, Aug. 29, 1862.

“Argument was useless”: Welles diary, Sept. 1, 1862.

the petition … was intemperate: ibid., Aug. 31, 1862.

“No, not now”: ibid.

“nothing but foul play”: Hay diary, Sept. 1, 1862.

hopes for a victory rose:
CW,
Vol. 5, pp. 400–401.

Stanton, still angry: Welles diary, Aug. 31, 1862.

lowered his voice conspiratorially: ibid.

“well and hilarious”: Hay diary, Sept. 1, 1862.

“we are whipped again”: ibid.

“Malice … Vandalism”: Welles diary, Aug. 31, 1862.

rescue the family silver: McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, Aug. 31, 1862.

“middle of last year”:
RW,
p. 256.

remaining squabbles over patronage: Chase diary, Aug. 31, 1862.

“singularly defiant tone”: Hay diary, Sept. 1, 1862.

“McClellan ought to be shot”: Welles diary, Sept. 1, 1862.

Welles was surprised: ibid.

“Mr. Hay, what is the use”: Hay diary, undated.

“he broke down”:
RW,
p. 224.

“I beg of you”: Halleck to McClellan, Aug. 31, 1862, 10:07
P.M.

Making matters worse: Marszalek,
Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies,
pp. 146–53.

“Pope should have been sustained”:
RW,
p. 472.

Lincoln began the meeting: Welles diary, Sept. 2, 1862.

“a good engineer”: ibid.; also Chase diary, Sept. 2, 1862.

Never … so “disturbed”: Welles diary, Sept. 2, 1862.

“giving Washington to the rebels”: Chase diary, Sept. 2, 1862.

“the confidence of the army”: Welles diary, Sept. 2, 1862.

“There has been a design”: ibid., Sept. 7, 1862.

“Who shall save it?”: Dahlgren diary, Sept. 2, 1862.

10: SEPTEMBER

“it is to be my lot”:
RW,
p. 373.

“What is to be”: quoted in Carwardine,
Lincoln,
p. 39.

“the weightiest question of his life”: Nicolay and Hay,
Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. 6, pp. 341–42.

“The will of God prevails”:
CW,
Vol. 5, pp. 403–4.

jabbed with such velocity: An image of the document was examined at
http://dl.lib.brown.edu/catalog/
.

Second Inaugural Address:
CW,
Vol. 8, pp. 333–34.

Slavery … was like a tumor:
CW
, Vol. 5, p. 327.

“We have no carbines”: Halleck to Thomas Ewing, Sr., Aug. 14, 1862, Ewing Family Papers, Box 14, No. 5098, Library of Congress Manuscript Division.

“exciting, vague, and absurd”: Welles diary, Sept. 3, 1862.

“There are McClellan parties”: Gustavus V. Fox to James Grimes, Sept. 6, 1862, in
Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox,
Vol. 2, p. 369.

“I want to consult you”:
RW,
p. 440.

“Our late campaign … has failed”: Seward to Adams, Sept. 8, 1862.

“wise or not”: Welles diary, Sept. 5, 1862.

“like shoveling fleas”: Nicolay and Hay,
Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. 6, p. 142.

“permitted themselves to be captured”: Welles diary, Sept. 5, 1862.

“He went out, as of old”: Chase diary, Sept. 3, 1862.

“a manifesto, a narrative”: Welles diary, Sept. 4, 1862.

“Kentuckians!”: Quoted in McPherson,
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam, the Battle That Changed the Course of the Civil War,
p. 77.

Bragg entered the state: Foote,
The Civil War,
Vol. 1, p. 584; Nicolay and Hay,
Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. 6, pp. 273–76.