Team Of Rivals Part 134

"That is just such...man who wrote it": Joseph Hooker, quoted in Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C. in Lincoln's Time, p. 57.

Mary's curiosity..."pleasant to her": NYH, April 10, 1863 (quote); Star, April 7, 1863; Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 150.

reported badinage between..."'sort of rebel'": Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C. in Lincoln's Time, p. 59.

Stormy weather..."shafts of wit": Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 150; NYH, April 10, 1863 (quote).

The roar of artillery..."among them": Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 53; NYH, April 11, 1863; Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 153 (quote).

his gray cloak...faithfully by his side: Brooks, "A Boy in the White House," St. Nicholas (1882), p. 62.

"And thereby hangs...folds of the banners": NYH, April 11, 1863.

At the review of the infantry..."far away": Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, pp. 154, 15859 (quote).

he extended his visit: Ibid., p. 161.

"the former stood...turn their backs": NYH, April 10, 1863.

rebel camps across the river...stars and bars: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, pp. 15556.

Union pickets..."belonging to friendly armies": Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 162 (first quote); NYH, April 10, 1863 (last quote).

a Confederate officer..."politely and retired": Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 156.

"It was a saddening...should arrive": Ibid., pp. 15354.

issued one final directive...all your men": AL, quoted in Couch, "Sumner's 'Right Grand Division,'" in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. III, Pt. I, p. 120.

boarded the Carrie Martin..."flags displayed": NYH, April 12, 1863.

were defending James S. Pleasants..."very bitter": EBL to SPL, April 16, 1863, in Wartime Was.h.i.+ngton, ed. Laas, p. 259 (quotes); Court-martial file of James Snowden Pleasants, file MM-15, entry 15, RG 153, DNA; Sun, Baltimore, Md., April 9, 1863.

sent the Peterhoff...to the Navy Department: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 35051; Monaghan, Diplomat in Carpet Slippers, pp. 30304.

led to rumors of..."from the real question": Entries for April 2328, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 28587 (quotes p. 287).

Montgomery Blair also sided..."in the Cabinet": Entry for April 17, 1863, ibid., pp. 27475 (quote p. 275).

"I feel that...my present position": SPC to AL, March 2, 1863, Lincoln Papers.

This squabble was provoked..."my resignation": SPC to AL, May 11, 1863, Lincoln Papers.

"Chase's feelings were hurt": AL to Anson G. Henry, May 13, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 215.

he called at Chase's..."I finally succeeded": Field, Memories of Many Men, p. 303.

$45 million in bonds..."as do ours": NYT, May 3, 1863.

he placed his p.r.i.c.kly secretary's third resignation: Riddle, Recollections of War Times, p. 273.

Blair, meanwhile, resented Chase..."private counsellor": Entry for May 10, 1863, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, pp. 29091.

the Battle of Chancellorsville: See Stephen W. Sears, Chancellorsville (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1996); Stanley S. McGowen, "Chancellorsville, Battle of," in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, pp. 39498; Foote, The Civil War, Vol. II, p. 263.

"We have been...definite information": JGN to TB, May 4, 1863, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

Welles joined Lincoln: Entry of May 4, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 291.

Bates was particularly tense..."dangerous service": Entry for May 5, 1863, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 289.

Lincoln admitted...what was going on: EBL to SPL, May 4, 1863, in Wartime Was.h.i.+ngton, ed. Laas, p. 264.

"no reliable...does not express them": Entry for May 5, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 29293.

"While I am anxious...or discomfort": AL to Joseph Hooker, April 28, 1863, in CW, VI, pp. 18990.

"G.o.d bless you...with despatches": AL to Joseph Hooker, 9:40 a.m. telegram, May 6, 1863, in ibid., p. 199.

an unwelcome telegram...the order to retreat: Joseph Hooker to AL, May 6, 1863, Lincoln Papers; Sears, Chancellorsville, p. 492; Darius N. Couch, "The Chancellorsville Campaign," in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. III, Pt. I, pp. 164 (first quote), 167, 16971 (second and third quotes p. 171).

"I shall never forget...of despair": Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 60.

"Had a thunderbolt...would again commence": Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 179.

"ashen" face..."'will the country say!'": Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 61.

The president informed Senator Sumner..."I know not where": Entry for May 6, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 29394.

"This is the darkest day of the war": JH paraphrasing EMS, quoted in Lincoln's Third Secretary: The Memoirs of William O. Stoddard, ed. William O. Stoddard, Jr. (New York: Exposition Press, 1955), p. 173.

At the Willard...bound for Hooker's headquarters: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 180.

"All accounts agree...back into the fray": NYT, May 12, 1863.

casualties at Chancellorsville: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 645; Sears, Chancellorsville, pp. 492, 501.

death of Stonewall Jackson: James I. Robertson, Jr., "Jackson, Thomas Jonathan," in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 1065.

"Since the death...death of Jackson": Richmond Whig, May 12, 1863.

"If possible"...ready to a.s.sist Hooker: AL to Joseph Hooker, May 7, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 201.

CHAPTER 20: "THE TYc.o.o.n IS IN FINE WHACK"

General Orders No. 38...tried by a military court: "General Orders, No. 38," Department of the Ohio, April 13, 1863, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XXIII, Part II, p. 237.