George B. McClellan and Civil War History by Thomas J. Rowland

Author:Thomas J. Rowland [Rowland, Thomas J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, Wars & Conflicts (Other)
ISBN: 9780873386036
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Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 1998-01-15T00:39:18+00:00

1. Portions of this chapter appeared earlier in somewhat altered form as Thomas J. Rowland, “‘Heaven Save a Country Governed by Such Counsels!’ The Safety of Washington and the Peninsula Campaign,” Civil War History 42 (Mar. 1996): 5–17. The various options McClellan considered in his revised plans for the Peninsula campaigns are discussed in Harsh, “Lincoln’s Tarnished Brass,” 136–37.

2. T. Harry Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, 130; Basler, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln 7:138; McClellan, McClellan’s Own Story, 164.

3. Sears, Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, 219–20; T. Harry Williams, Lincoln and His Generals, 77.

4. McClellan, McClellan’s Own Story, 258.

5. Ibid., 258.

6. Basler, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln 5:292–97.

7. Harsh, “Lincoln’s Tarnished Brass,” 137–38. See also “Narrative of Rear-Admiral Goldsborough, U.S. Navy,” in U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings (Annapolis: U.S. Naval Academy, 1933), 59:1025.

8. OR, vol. 11, 3:80–82.

9. Ibid. 1:10, 3:66. Franklin’s comments can be found in Sears, Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, 231n.1; Franklin to McClellan, Apr. 7, 1862, McClellan Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress; Basler, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln 5:184–85.

10. Sears, Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, 230; Heintzelman, Diary, Apr. 3, 1862; Beale and Brownsword, eds., Diary of Gideon Welles 1:349; Harper’s Weekly, Aug. 9, 1862.

11. Sears, Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, 223.

12. OR, vol. 5, 1:60–61.

13. Ibid., 56.

14. Ibid., 61.

15. Ibid., 678; T. Harry Williams, “The Attack Upon West Point during the Civil War,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 25 (Mar. 1939); and T. Harry Williams, Lincoln and His Generals, 224; Edward Hagerman, “The Professionalization of George B. McClellan and Early Civil War Field Command,” Civil War History 12 (June 1975): 119.

16. Sears, Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, 222–23.

17. Nevins, War for the Union 2:123–24. Two recent studies provide all the necessary details of Jackson’s campaign in the Valley. See Robert K. Krick, Conquering the Valley: Stonewall Jackson at Port Republic (New York: William Morrow, 1996); and Robert G. Tanner, Stonewall in the Valley (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole, 1996).

18. Letter from Lincoln to McClellan, Apr. 9, 1862, in John G. Nicolay and John Hay, eds., The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7 (New York: Century, 1905), 141–43.

19. Long, Memoirs of Robert E. Lee, 151.

20. Sears, Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, 220. On April 21, 1862, Lee notified Jackson in the Valley that Fredericksburg had already been abandoned, that bridges had been burned, and that the rear guard of Johnston’s army was already fourteen miles south of the town. See Dowdy and Manarin, Wartime Papers of Robert E. Lee, 150.

21. OR, vol. 11, 1:634, 1163.

22. Weather observations can be found in numerous sources. McClellan’s complaints about the weather and its impact upon operations between the Confederate evacuation of Yorktown and the beginning of the Seven Days campaign can be found in Sears, Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, 256–312. For corroborating testimony, see also Richard B. Sommers, “‘They fired into us an awful fire’: The Civil War Diary of Pvt. Charles C. Perkins,” in William Miller, ed.

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