Team Of Rivals Part 129

"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.

Though Stanton and Chase...considered resigning: Entries for September 25 and October 3, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 14849, 16061.

Lincoln had made...relieved from duty: AL, quoted in "25 September 1863, Sunday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 232.

Lincoln journeyed...early in October: Entry for October 1, 1862, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 143; John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol. VI (New York: Century Co., 1917), p. 174.

Halleck, fearing..."see my soldiers": AL, quoted in "Lincoln Visits the Army of the Potomac," Lincoln Lore, no. 1277, September 28, 1953.

As the regiments..."greatly amused the company": NYH, October 5, 1862.

accommodations at Antietam: "Lincoln Visits the Army of the Potomac," Lincoln Lore, no. 1277, September 28, 1953.

his "over-cautiousness": AL to GBM, October 13, 1862, Lincoln Papers.

"was very affable...very kind personally": GBM to MEM, October 5, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 490.

"real purpose...advance into Virginia": GBM to MEM, October 2, [1862], in ibid., p. 488.

"if I were...trivial": AL, "Speech at Frederick, Maryland," October 4, 1862, in CW, V, p. 450.

"May our children...and his compeers": AL, "Second Speech at Frederick, Maryland," October 4, 1862, in ibid., p. 450.

Lincoln had Halleck telegraph..."roads are good": Henry W. Halleck to GBM, October 6, 1862, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XIX, Part II, p. 10.

found all manner of excuses: GBM to Henry W. Halleck, October 7, 9, 11, and 18, 1862, and GBM to AL, October 17 and 30, 1862, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, pp. 493, 495, 499, 502, 516.

"Will you pardon me...fatigue anything?": AL to GBM, October [25], 1862, in CW, V, p. 474.

"Our war on rebellion...specimen after all": Entry for October 23, 1862, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 267.

an "ill wind" of discontent: WHS to FS, October 1862, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, pp. 141, 142 (quote p. 141).

the midterm November elections..."hurt to laugh": Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 335; Hendrick, Lincoln's War Cabinet, p. 325; AL, quoted in Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. I, p. 611 (quote).

"I began...I relieved him": AL, quoted in "25 September 1863, Sunday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 232.

McClellan received..."visible on my face": GBM to MEM, November 7, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 520.

"More than a hundred...shed in profusion": National Intelligencer, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., November 14, 1862.

"In parting...an indissoluble tie": GBM to the Army of the Potomac, November 7, 1862, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 521.

choice of Burnside proved unfortunate: Darius N. Couch, "Sumner's 'Right Grand Division,'" in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. III, Pt. 1, p. 106; Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. II, pp. 39798.

"ten times...as he has head": Entry for January 1, 1863, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.

Fredericksburg Campaign: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 57172; Spencer C. Tucker, "Fredericksburg, First Battle of," in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, pp. 77479.