Team Of Rivals Part 124

the Seven Days Battles: For a detailed description of the Seven Days Battles, see Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, pp. 181336.

Federals dead, wounded, and missing: Ibid., pp. 34445.

"vastly superior...where it belongs": GBM to EMS, June 25, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, pp. 30910.

"pains me...if I would": AL to GBM, June 26, 1862, in CW, V, p. 286.

neither McClellan nor Lincoln was able to sleep: Entry for July 5, 1862, in Dahlgren, Memoir of John A. Dahlgren, p. 375; Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 209.

Gaines' Mill...McClellan to retreat: Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, pp. 21350; Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 212.

"I now know...sacrifice this army": GBM to EMS, June 28, 1862, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XI, p. 61.

When the supervisor of telegrams...it to Stanton: Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, pp. 10910.

McClellan's troops remained a strong: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 468.

Malvern Hill: Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, pp. 30836.

"He was simply out-generaled": Christopher Wolcott to Pamphila Stanton Wolcott, July 2, 1862, in Wolcott, "Edwin M. Stanton," p. 157a.

he continued to retreat: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 470; Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, p. 338.

CHAPTER 17: "WE ARE IN THE DEPTHS"

"We are in the...gloomy thinking": Entry for July 14, 1862, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 241.

manifesting an anxiety..."more momentous": Iowa State Register, Des Moines, July 16, 1862.

"the gloomiest...so low": Entry for July 4, 1862, in Gurowski, Diary from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862, p. 235.

"the past has been...the war began": JGN to TB, July 13, 1862, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

"It is a startling...sustain a spirit": WHS to FS, August 2, 1862, in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, pp. 12021.

"Since the rebellion...taken Richmond": SPC to Richard C. Parsons, July 20, 1862, reel 21, Chase Papers.

"The house seemed...you were gone": SPC to KCS, June 24, 1862, reel 21, Chase Papers.

many long letters: SPC to KCS, June 24, 25, 29, and 30, July 1, 2 and 4, 1862, reel 21, Chase Papers.

"a mark of love and...on many points": SPC to KCS, July 6, 1862, reel 21, Chase Papers.

"All your letters...very good": SPC to KCS, July 4, 1862, reel 21, Chase Papers.

concealed her unhappiness..."So with us it came": William Sprague to KCS, May 27, 1866, Sprague Papers.

"My confidence...and so will I": SPC to KCS, July 6, 1862, reel 21, Chase Papers.

to visit the McDowells'..."will alarm you": Mrs. McDowell, quoted in Phelps, Kate Chase, Dominant Daughter, p. 121.

"The first necessity...of no more": NYT, July 7, 1862.

"Journals of all...instant removal": NYT, July 10, 1862.

"So you want...unaffected wonder": GBM to MEM, [July] 13, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, pp. 35455.

"the proof...hypocrite & villain": GBM to MEM, July 22, [1862], in ibid., p. 368.

"there had been...opposition to McClellan": SPL to EBL, July 6, 1862, box 230, folder 7, Blair-Lee Papers, NjP-SC.

John Astor..."by a signal victory": Entry for July 11, 1862, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 239.

"If we could help...any other way": Frederick Law Olmsted to "My Dear Doctor," July 13, 1862, reel 2, Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress.

"very fierce crusade...the art of war": NYT, July 10, 1862.

Mary Ellet Cabell..."tears to his eyes": Mary Ellet Cabell, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 164.

"the baby was dying"...on July 10: Christopher Wolcott to Pamphila Stanton Wolcott, July 6, 1862, in Wolcott, "Edwin M. Stanton," p. 157b (quote); Gideon Welles, "The History of Emanc.i.p.ation," Galaxy 14 (December 1872), p. 842.

his own health began to suffer: Benjamin, "Recollections of Secretary Edwin M. Stanton," Century (1887), p. 759.

"He unflinchingly...out of it": Whitman, Specimen Days (1902 edn.), p. 36.

"Allow me to a.s.sure...all your life": AL to Quintin Campbell, June 28, 1862, in CW, V, p. 288.

Stanton...shutting down recruiting offices: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 201; Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 180.

"a general panic": AL to WHS, June 28, 1862, in CW, V, p. 292.

Seward devised an excellent solution: AL, "Call for Troops," June 30, 1862, in ibid., p. 294 n1.

Seward telegraphed..."We fail without it": WHS to EMS, July 1, 1862, OR, Ser. 3, Vol. II, p. 186.

"The existing law"...his own responsibility: EMS to WHS, July 1, 1862, OR, Ser. 3, Vol. II, pp. 18687 (quote p. 186).

He set a precedent...answered Seward's call: NR, August 14, 1862.

William Junior..."line of march": William H. Seward, Jr., speech before members of the 9th New York Artillery, 1912, box 121, Seward Papers, NRU.

Will's enlistment...his mother's fragile health: William H. Seward, Jr., to WHS, July 17, 1862, reel 117, Seward Papers.

"As it is obvious...no objection": FAS to FWS, August 10, 1862, reel 115, Seward Papers.

to make a personal visit...at Harrison's Landing: Sun, Baltimore, Md., July 11, 1862.