Rise to Greatness (71 page)

Lee had significant concerns: Lee to Jefferson Davis, Sept. 3, 1862, Papers of Jefferson Davis, Rice University, available online at
http://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=111
.

“throwing off … yoke”: McPherson,
Battle Cry of Freedom,
p. 536.

Lee … banned enlisted men:
The War of the Rebellion,
Series 1, Vol. 19, Part 2, pp. 603–4.

Lee was able to scrape up: ibid., pp. 605, 602.

Whittier composed a ballad: Whittier,
The Complete Poetical Works of Whittier,
pp. 342–43.

Davis would later explain: Davis,
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government,
Vol. 2, pp. 276–77.

“these discordant elements”:
RW,
p. 441.

he would “inflict injury”: Lee to Davis, Sept. 8, 1862, in
The Wartime Papers of Robert E. Lee,
p. 301.

Palmerston and Russell agreed: Crook,
Diplomacy During the American Civil War,
pp. 86–88.

“perhaps his finest hour”: McPherson,
Crossroads of Freedom,
pp. 87–88.

“There was design”: Welles diary, Sept. 6, 1862.

“reckless and untameable”: ibid., Sept. 8 and 10, 1862.

Chase was furious at Welles: ibid., Sept. 7, 1862.

Welles suspected Stanton: ibid., Sept. 11, 1862.

Smith … turned on Seward: ibid., Sept. 10, 1862.

Blair set on Stanton: ibid., Sept. 12, 1862.

“you want … Seward out”: Chase diary, Sept. 10, 1862.

“humiliating submissiveness”: ibid., Sept. 12, 1862.

As usual: Sears,
George B. McClellan,
pp. 273–78.

credence to mistaken reports:
CW,
Vol. 5, p. 409.

“consist of their oldest regiments”: McClellan to Halleck, Sept. 11 [Sept. 10], 1862.

“How does it look now?”:
CW,
Vol. 5, p. 418.

“fall into the hands”: Chase diary, Sept. 12, 1862.

“a long and free discussion”: Welles diary, Sept. 12, 1862.

“There was bluster”: ibid.

Weed … called on Chase: Chase diary, Sept. 15, 1862.

“Seward was supple”: Welles diary, Sept. 17, 1862.

“freeing all the apprentices”: Chase diary, Sept. 12, 1862.

“Alas, poor country”: Sumner to Francis Lieber, Sept. 16, 1862.

Nast sketched the … scene:
Harper’s Weekly
6, no. 301 (Oct. 4, 1862), p. 1.

“I was nearly overwhelmed”: McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, Sept. 14, 1862.

Tubs of lemonade: Sears,
Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam,
pp. 108–11.

beauty of the countryside: McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, Sept. 12, 1862.

“Please do not let him get off”:
CW,
Vol. 5, p. 418.

latest estimate was ludicrously high: Chase diary, Sept. 13, 1862.

“I shall follow”: McClellan to Halleck, Sept. 12, 1862, 5:30
P.M.

a twist so unlikely: Sears,
Landscape Turned Red,
pp. 112–13.

“Now I know”: ibid.

debate with … Chicago ministers:
CW,
Vol. 5, pp. 420–25.

eventually debunked: William P. Rigge, “The Pope and the Comet,”
Popular Astronomy
16 (October 1908), pp. 481–83.

“I have not decided”:
CW,
Vol. 5, pp. 420–25.

“I will do it”:
ibid.

“study the plain physical facts”: ibid.

“Here is a paper”: Gibbon,
Personal Recollections of the Civil War,
p. 73.

“hope for a great success”: McClellan to Lincoln, Sept. 13, 1862.

“so dark, so obscure”: quoted in McPherson,
Crossroads of Freedom,
p. 117.

the same “strange dream”:
RW,
p. 486.

“No tongue can tell”: quoted in Hattaway and Jones,
How the North Won,
p. 243.

planned to renew the battle: McClellan to Halleck, Sept. 18, 1862, 8
A.M.
; McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, Sept. 18, 1862, 8
A.M.

“I am aware of the fact”: McClellan,
Report of Major-General George B. McClellan,
pp. 149–50.

stunned and partially decapitated: ibid.

“Few and foggy dispatches”: Welles diary, Sept. 18, 1862.

“Antietam was fought Wednesday”: Nicolay and Hay,
Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. 6, pp. 164–65.

president “could not but feel”: ibid., p. 146.

“When Lee came over”:
RW,
p. 38.

too busy writing: Chase diary, Sept. 21, 1862.

“I let them have it”: Nicolay and Hay,
Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. 6, pp. 164–65.

“there was some general talk”: Chase diary, Sept. 22, 1862.

“High-handed Outrage”:
Artemus Ward: His Book,
pp. 34–35.

“The ‘neigh’ of a horse”: Carpenter,
The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln,
pp. 150–51.

“Why don’t you laugh?”:
RW,
p. 417.

the president grew serious: Chase diary, Sept. 22, 1862.

he “had made a vow”: Welles diary, Sept. 22, 1862.

Lincoln hesitated: Chase diary, Sept. 22, 1862.

“God had decided this question”: Welles diary, Sept. 22, 1862.

“I am here”: Chase diary, Sept. 22, 1862.

This revised version: Guelzo,
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation,
pp. 172–73.

Seward … offered a proposal: Chase diary, Sept. 22, 1862.

Welles was impressed: Welles diary, Sept. 22, 1862.

Chase spoke next: Chase diary, Sept. 22, 1862.

Welles also endorsed: Welles diary, Sept. 22, 1862.

Blair now spoke up: Chase diary, Sept. 22, 1862.

hand the Democrats “a club”: Welles diary, Sept. 22, 1862.

“in great doubt myself”:
RW,
p. 314.

Sumner … Douglass … Hamlin: quoted in Guelzo,
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation,
pp. 157–62.

“Hoop de-dooden-do”: ibid.

he “knew more”: Hay diary, Sept. 24, 1862.

“our harpoon”: Carpenter,
The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln,
p. 75.

“environed with difficulties”:
CW,
Vol. 5, p. 438.

“The stocks have declined”: ibid., p. 444.

a second … dangerous decree: ibid., pp. 436–37.

“such an accursed doctrine”: McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, Sept. 25, 1862.

later told Lincoln: Hay diary, Sept. 25, 1864.

“That is not the game”: Welles diary, Sept. 24, 1862.

He cashiered Key:
CW,
Vol. 5, pp. 442–43.

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“Dr. Zacharie has operated”:
CW,
Vol. 5, p. 436.

“put his foot down firmly”: ibid., p. 436n.

helped to muffle: ibid., p. 225.

“pestilent sheet”: William Goodell to Lincoln, July 9, 1862, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress Manuscript Division.

“I do very believe”: James Gordon Bennett to Lincoln, Aug. 11, 1862, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress Manuscript Division.

“accept this proclamation”: Fermer,
James Gordon Bennett and the New York Herald: A Study of Editorial Opinion in the Civil War Era, 1854–1867,
pp. 221–25.

“your kind note”: Mary Lincoln to James Gordon Bennett, Oct. 4, 1862.

“satisfy himself personally”: “Conversation with Hon. O. M. Hatch, Springfield, June 1875,” in
An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln,
p. 16.

“Compel the enemy”: McClellan to Halleck, Oct. 1, 1862; McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, Oct. 2, 1862.

“His ostensible purpose”: McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, Oct. 2, 1862.

Gardner … “brought bodies”:
New York Times,
Oct. 20, 1862.

“very kind personally”: McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, Oct. 5, 1862.

at least four letters: “Conversation with Hon. O. M. Hatch, Springfield, June 1875,” p. 16.

Lincoln … “regarded his position”:
RW,
pp. 275–76.

Hatch recalled the encounter: quoted in Browne,
The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln: A Narrative and Descriptive Biography with Pen-Pictures and Personal Recollections by Those Who Knew Him,
pp. 529–30.

“Sing one of your sad … songs”: Lamon,
Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847–1865,
pp. 145–48.

“he would be a ruined man”:
RW,
p. 132.

disappointed a cheering crowd:
CW,
Vol. 5, p. 450.

“I will back General McClellan”:
RW,
p. 425.

“most desperately contested”: Foote,
The Civil War,
Vol. 1, pp. 726–38.

the effects of Bragg’s retreat: Duke,
Reminiscences of General Basil W. Duke,
p. 333.

“overwhelmed with the crowd”: Nicolay to Therena Bates, Oct. 9, 1862.

his monthly paycheck: Miers,
Lincoln Day by Day,
Vol. 3, Oct. 6, 1862.

“The President directs”:
CW,
Vol. 5, p. 452n.

“disgust, discontent … disloyalty”: Sears,
George B. McClellan,
p. 325.

“a fatal error”: ibid., pp. 326–27.

transportation magnate William Aspinwall: McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, Oct. 5, 1862.

“remedy for political error”: Williams,
Lincoln and His Generals,
p. 171.

“hope the indignant people”: McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, Sept. 29, 1862; see also McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, Sept. 25, 1862.

lacked “shoes, tents, blankets”: Rafuse,
McClellan’s War,
pp. 353, 358.

“quiet & pleasant time”: McClellan to Samuel Barlow, Oct. 17, 1862.

“It is humiliating”: Welles diary, Oct. 13, 1862.

“Three times round and out”:
RW,
p. 256.

“effect upon the popular mind”: Adams to Seward, Oct. 3, 1862.

“full of difficulty”: Foreman,
A World on Fire,
pp. 319–20.

“they have made a nation!”: Crook,
Diplomacy During the American Civil War,
pp. 87–92.

Adams was angry: Adams to Seward, Oct. 10, 1862.

“merely … lookers-on”: Crook,
Diplomacy During the American Civil War,
p. 98.

Now was the moment: Owsley,
King Cotton Diplomacy,
pp. 331–33.

Napoleon took this letter: ibid.

take the plunge: ibid.

“Nothing,” he replied: Dayton to Seward, Nov. 5, 1862.

Lincoln took up pen:
CW,
Vol. 5, pp. 460–61.

he would fire McClellan now: Sears,
George B. McClellan,
p. 335.

cavalry was no match: McClellan to Halleck, Oct. 14, 1862; Lincoln’s reaction is found in Halleck to McClellan,
The War of the Rebellion,
Series 1, Vol. 19, Part 2, p. 421.

“take things so leisurely!”: Nicolay to Therena Bates, Oct. 16, 1862.

“He does not understand”: Nicolay and Hay,
Abraham Lincoln,
Vol. 6, p. 280.