348 "of his Country": Segal, Conversations, pp. 165168.

348 "office he holds": The American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1862 (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1871), 2:346.

348 "and hungry dog": Adam Gurowski, Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1862), p. 159.

348 by overwhelming majorities: Though Lincoln was able to enlist the almost unanimous support of Republican congressmen for the resolution, he did not succeed in attracting bipartisan support for it. In the House of Representatives only four Democrats supported the resolution, and only one Democrat in the Senate voted for it.

348 "greatly prefer it": CW, 5:169.

349 "no military knowledge": Randall, Lincoln the President, 2:8485.

349 "he fights": Williams, Lincoln and His Generals, p. 86.

349 "meet the crisis". Browning, Diary, 1:537538.

349 Washington "entirely secure": CW, 5:151.

350 "line ...at once". CW, 5:182.

350 "do it himself": McClellan, Civil War Papers, p. 234.

350 "sluggishness of action": Browning, Diary, 1:540.

350 "you must act": CW, 5:185.

350 "the best motives": George B. McClellan to Montgomery Blair, Apr. 20, 1862, Blair MSS, LC.

350 "loss of life": George B. McClellan to AL, Apr. 23, 1862, Lincoln MSS, LC.

350 scene of operations. My account of Lincoln's Norfolk "campaign" follows Egbert L. Viele, "A Trip with Lincoln, Chase and Stanton," Scribner's Monthly 16 (Oct. 1878): 813822, and William E. Baringer, "On Enemy Soil: President Lincoln's Norfolk Campaign," ALQ 7 (Mar. 1952): 426.

351 "terror as ever": Chase, Diary, p. 85.

351 "hurts my feelings": Wilson Barstow to Elizabeth Barstow, May 12, 1862, Barstow MSS, LC.

352 all at once: CW, 5:208209.

352 obey his orders: CW, 5:219,226227.

352 lost his balance: Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, Memoir of John A. Dahlgren (Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1882), p. 369.

352 to approve it: Lucius E. Chittenden, Recollections of President Lincoln and His Administration (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891), pp. 307309.

352 "than Mr. Buchanan": Edward Dicey, Six Months in the Federal States (New York: Macmillan & Co., 1863), 1:228.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: AN INSTRUMENT IN G.o.d'S HANDS