Team Of Rivals Part 141

Stanton worked...stop to resupply: EMS to J. T. Boyle, September 23, 1863, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XXIX, Part I, p. 147; EMS to R. P. Bowler, September 24, 1863, in ibid., p. 153; Daniel b.u.t.terfield to Oliver O. Howard, September 26, 1863, in ibid., p. 160; W. P. Smith to EMS, September 26, 1863, in ibid., p. 161; Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, pp. 20406. For doc.u.mentation of Stanton's efforts to move the 11th and 12th Army Corps to the Army of the c.u.mberland, see OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XXIX, Part 1, pp. 14695.

The first train left Was.h.i.+ngton...arrived in Tennessee: W. P. Smith to EMS, September 26, 1863, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. 29, Part I, p. 161; Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, pp. 20506.

Monitoring reports...agree to leave his post: Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, pp. 20507; W. P. Smith to EMS, September 26, 1863, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XXIX, Part I, p. 162.

"It was an extraordinary...the twentieth century": McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 675.

Dana's reports...troops had lost confidence: Charles A. Dana to EMS, September 30, 1863, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. x.x.x, Part I, p. 204.

Stanton telegraphed Grant...discussing the overall military situation: Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, pp. 31516.

the general departed for Chattanooga...Lookout Mountain: Ibid., pp. 32051; James H. Meredith, "Chattanooga Campaign" and "Lookout Mountain, Battle of," in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, pp. 41115, 121618.

"would have been a terrible disaster": Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, p. 318.

"The country does...nights work": Entry for September 23, 1863, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 453.

affectionately call his "Mars": Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, p. 400.

"esteem and affection...French comic opera": Benjamin, "Recollections of Secretary Edwin M. Stanton," Century (1887), pp. 768, 76061.

"No two men were...a necessity to each other": New York Evening Post, July 13, 1891.

"in dealing with the public...than his heart": A. E. Johnson, opinion cited in Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, p. 389.

the story of a congressman..."step over and see him": Julian, Political Recollections, 1840 to 1872, pp. 21112.

"remarkable pa.s.sages...at Cincinnati": EMS, quoted in Parkinson to Beveridge, May 28, 1923, container 292, Beveridge Papers, DLC.

"Few war ministers...for Mr. Lincoln": "The Late Secretary Stanton," Army and Navy Journal, January 1, 1870, p. 309.

When Stanton was eighteen...near death from cholera: Wolcott, "Edwin M. Stanton," p. 36.

he insisted on including...to stand guard: Joseph Buchanan and William Stanton Buchanan, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, pp. 39, 40.

Oh! Why should the spirit...: William Knox, "Mortality," quoted in Bruce, "The Riddle of Death," in The Lincoln Enigma, p. 135.

He could recite from memory..."in the English language": Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 59.

The mossy marbles rest: Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Last Leaf," in The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. I (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1892), p. 4.

he had written..."he should be honored?": EMS, "Our Admiration of Military Character Unmerited," 1831, reel 1, Stanton Papers, DLC.

an army of more than 2 million men: Margaret E. Wagner, Gary W. Gallagher, and Paul Finkelman, eds., The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference (New York: Grand Central Press/Simon & Schuster, 2002), p. 376.

"There could be no greater...to eternity": EMS, quoted in Gideon Stanton, ed., "Edwin M. Stanton."

"Doesn't it strike you...flowing all about me?": AL quoted in Louis A. Warren, Lincoln's Youth: Indiana Years, Seven to Twenty-one, 18161830 (New York: Appleton Century Crofts, 1959), p. 225 n29.

an audience to a group of Quakers: AL to Eliza P. Gurney, September 4, 1864, in CW, VII, p. 535.

"If I had had...still governs it": AL, quoted in Eliza P. Gurney, copy of interview with AL, [October 26, 1862], Lincoln Papers.

"On principle...no mortal could stay": AL to Eliza P. Gurney, September 4, 1864, in CW, VII, p. 535.

Stanton still wrote..."'our love in two'": EMS to SPC, March 7, 1863, Chase Papers, Phi.

Stanton would ask Chase to stand: EMS to SPC, December 30, 1863, reel 30, Chase Papers.

"It is painful...after concurrence, action": SPC to George Wilkes, August 27, 1863, reel 28, Chase Papers.

Radicals insisted...both the Union and emanc.i.p.ation: Foner, Reconstruction, pp. 3550, 6062.

"standard-bearer...of the Radicals": Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 236.

Chase's desire...proclaim his campaign: Ibid., p. 237.

he wrote hundreds of letters...Lincoln administration: Hendrick, Lincoln's War Cabinet, p. 400.

"I should fear nothing...management of the War": SPC to Edward D. Mansfield, October 18, 1863, reel 29, Chase Papers.

"If I were myself...man should be had": SPC to William Sprague, November 26, 1863, reel 30, Chase Papers.

He was thrilled...on another candidate: Horace Greeley to SPC, September 29, 1863, reel 28, Chase Papers.

"first choice...should receive it": Edward Jordan to SPC, October 27, 1863, reel 29, Chase Papers.

Governor Dennison alerted him..."like a beaver": "17 October 1863, Sat.u.r.day, New York," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 92.

Seward cautioned..."for Mr. Chase": TW note, quoted in "28 November 1863, Sat.u.r.day," in ibid., p. 119.

Samuel c.o.x..."New England States": "24 December 1863, Thursday," in ibid., p. 132.

A Pennsylvanian politician..."out of both eyes": "25 October 1863, Sunday," in ibid., p. 100.

John Hay learned...Independent to his side: "28 November 1863, Sat.u.r.day," in ibid., p. 120.

"Chase's mad hunt after the Presidency": "29 October 1863, Thursday," in ibid., p. 103.

"plowing corn...make his department go": "[JulyAugust 1863]," in ibid., pp. 78, 313 n143.

Lincoln agreed..."very bad taste": AL, quoted in "18 October 1863, Sunday," in ibid., p. 93.

"was sorry...that it ought to": "29 October 1863, Thursday," in ibid., p. 103.

Lincoln's friends..."President's interests": Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, p. 176.

let "Chase have...what he asks": "29 October 1863, Thursday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 103.