337 "a process of crystallization": Carpenter, Six Months, p. 189.

337 veils and crepes: Randall, Mary Lincoln, pp. 284288.

338 "necessary to us": Ibid., p. 296.

338 "not get invitations": Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 215.

338 "notions of life": David Davis to William W. Orme, Feb. 23, 1862, Orme MSS, Illinois Historical Survey.

338 "gambler and drunkard": E. A. Hitchc.o.c.k to "c.o.x," Apr. 1862, Hitchc.o.c.k MSS, LC.

339 "of our cause": CW, 5:119125. The quoted words are italicized in the source.

339 "to do anything": John G. Nicolay, Diary, Feb. 27, 1862, Nicolay MSS, LC. Nicolay discreetly recorded Lincoln's explosion as "Why in the--nation."

340 of the engagement: Welles, Diary, 1:6265.

340 "word of it": McClellan, McClellan's Own Story, pp. 195196.

340 "one we adopt": Williams, Lincoln and His Generals, p. 67.

341 plan of campaign: Samuel P. Heintzelman, Diary, Mar. 8, 1862, Heintzelman MSS, LC. N. P. Banks was named to command a Fifth Army Corps, to be composed of his own division and that of James Shields, which was to operate in the Shenandoah Valley. CW, 5:149150.

341 to the field: Bates, Diary, p. 239.

341 to army administration: CW, 5:155.

341 "my public duties": George B. McClellan to AL, Mar. 12, 1862, Lincoln MSS, LC.

342 "been at Mana.s.ses": Browning, Diary, 1:552.

342 "of universal liberty": Congressional Globe, 38 Cong., 2 sess., p. 441.

342 "was never played": J. G. Randall, Lincoln the Liberal Statesman (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1947), p. 72.

342 "in the White House": The Liberator, Jan. 31, 1862.

342 "Slave-holders rebellion": Joseph Medill to AL, Feb. 9, 1862, Lincoln MSS, LC.

342 "did the President": Randall, Lincoln the Liberal Statesman, p. 67.

342 "to think so": Segal, Conversations, p. 168.

342 "somehow" the cause: In his second inaugural Lincoln said that the slaves "const.i.tuted a peculiar and powerful interest" that was "somehow, the cause of the war." CW, 8:332.

342 the nefarious traffic: CW, 5:128129.

343 "remorseless revolutionary struggle": CW, 5:4849.