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"What is the stake?...cause also": WHS to FAS[?], August 21, 1862, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18611872, p. 124.
a comet appeared in the northern sky: NR, August 27, 1862.
"When beggars die": William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act II, sc.
2. 474 Although McClellan agreed..."leave of absence!": Sears, George B. McClellan, pp. 25256; GBM to MEM, August 24, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 404 (quote).
"Pope is beaten...Washn again": GBM to MEM, August 23, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 400.
"the smell of the gunpowder...perceptible": Star, August 30, 1862.
"distant thunder": NR, September 1, 1862.
gathered on street corners...rumors flew: Leech, Reveille in Washington, p. 188; entry for September 3, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 106.
"Stonewall Jackson...about equal proportions": NR, September 1, 1862.
"prepared to stay all night, if necessary": Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, p. 118.
He wired various generals...news from Mana.s.sas: AL to Ambrose Burnside, August 29, 1862, in CW, V, p. 398; Lincoln to Herman Haupt, August 29, 1862, in ibid., p. 399; Lincoln to GBM, August 29, 1862 in ibid.; Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, pp. 11921.
The president now had..."perfectly safe": GBM to AL, August 29, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
John Hay met the president..."his own sc.r.a.pe": "[1 September 1862, Monday]," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, pp. 3637.
McClellan's delay..."my opinion, required": EMS to Henry W. Halleck, August 28, 1862, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XII, Part III, p. 706; Henry W. Halleck to EMS, August 30, 1862, in ibid., p. 739 (quote).
"like throwing water...that in writing": SPC, paraphrased in entry for September 1, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 102.
Stanton volunteered...agreement regarding McClellan: Entries for August 2930, 1862, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, pp. 36667.
"Never before...sink into contempt": EB to Hamilton Gamble, September 1, 1862, Bates Papers, MoSHi.
written in Stanton's distinctive back-sloping script: Entry for September 1, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 100.
"unwilling to be...commanded by General Pope": Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, pp. 17677.
Smith was persuaded...to Blair or anyone else: Entry for August 31, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 9395. Howard Beale has identified some of the language included in the 1911 edition of Welles's published diary as having been added later to the original ma.n.u.script diary. See Beale's emendations in individual diary entries for subsequent changes made in Welles's diary.
Stanton had invited Lincoln..."glad tidings at sunrise": "[1 September 1862, Monday]," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 37.
When Welles stopped by..."disrespectful to the President": Entry for August 31, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 9598 (quotes pp. 9798).
"had called us...against him": Entry for September 1, 1862, ibid., pp. 10102.
"he knew of no particular"...cabal against the president: Entry for August 31, 1862, ibid., p. 98.
"about Eight oclock...'I am afraid'": "[1 September 1862, Monday]," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, pp. 3738.
As rumors spread...16,000 casualties: "5 September 1862, Friday," in ibid., p. 38; FWS to WHS, September 1, 1862, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18611872, p. 126; McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 532.
"Jeff. Davis...before the National Capital": NYT, August 31, 1862.
put the president in an untenable...angrier he became: "1 September 1862, Monday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 37.
"There is no...now to sacrifice": AL, quoted in "5 September 1862, Friday," in ibid., pp. 3839.
When Halleck recommended...Lincoln agreed: Entry for September 12, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 124; Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 260.
Bates rewrote the protest...he agreed McClellan should go: Entry for September 1, 1862, ibid., pp. 10003 (quotes); entry for September 1, 1863, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, pp. 36768.
gathered at noon...messy controversy over McClellan: Entry for September 2, 1862, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 137; entry for September 2, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 104 (quote).
Jenny was expecting...Clara, was dying: Janet W. Seward, "Personal Experiences of the Civil War," box 132, Seward Papers, NRU; FAS to WHS, August 24, September 7, 1862, reel 114, Seward Papers; FAS to WHS, September 10, 1862, reel 116, Seward Papers.
When he heard...cut his vacation short: Seward, Seward at Washington...18611872, p. 127.
the president was called out: Entry for September 2, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 104.
"in a suppressed voice...prove a national calamity": Ibid., pp. 10405 (quotes); entry for September 2, 1862, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 137.
Stanton, recognizing..."a drooping leaf": Evening Post, New York, July 13, 1891 (quote); Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 179.
"seemed wrung...to hang himself": EB, quoted in footnote to AL, "Meditation on the Divine Will," [September 2, 1862?], in CW, V, p. 404 n1.
"In great contests...it shall not end yet": AL, "Meditation on the Divine Will," [September 2, 1862?], in ibid., pp. 40304.
Seward drove immediately..."during his absence": Seward, Seward at Washington...18611872, p. 127.
"What is the use...should have known it": WHS, quoted in "[Mid-September 1862?]," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 40.
Seward turned to history..."preserve hopefulness": WHS to FS, c. November 1862, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18611872, p. 144.
Seward did not question..."sea of revolution": WHS to FAS, September 20, 1862, quoted in ibid., p. 132.
a president had to work: "5 September 1862, Friday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 38.
McClellan smugly returned to his old headquarters: FWS to WHS, September 3, 1862, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18611872, p. 127.
"Again I have...'away from us again'": GBM to MEM, September 5, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 435.
crossed the Potomac...three cigars: James M. McPherson, Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam. Pivotal Moments in American History Series (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 98, 10405, 10708. For actual "Lost Orders," see "Special Orders, No. 191, Hd Qrs Army of Northern Va, Sept 9th 1862," reel 31, McClellan Papers, DLC.
the Marylanders greeted...their countryside: GBM to MEM, September 12 and 14, [1862], and GBM to AL, September 13, [1862], in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, pp. 450, 458, 453.
"We are in...battle of the age": GBM to MEM, [September] 17, [1862], in ibid., p. 468.
casualties higher than D-Day: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 544.
