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Buchanan (search for this): chapter 9
e both willing that C. should go to Russia. He seemed to receive the matter as new, except so far as suggested by me last night. Wanted to know who would succeed Cameron. I said Holt and Stanton had been named; that I feared Holt might embarrass us on the slavery question, and might not prove quite equal to the emergency; that Stanton was a good lawyer and full of energy, but I could not, of course, judge him as an executive officer as well as he (S) could, for he knew him when he was in Buchanan's cabinet. Seward replied that he saw much .of him then; that he was of great force, full of expedients, and thoroughly loyal. Finally he agreed to the whole thing, and promised to go with me to talk with the President about it to-morrow. Just at this point Cameron came in with a letter from the President proposing his nomination to Russia in the morning! He was quite offended, supposing the letter intended as a dismissal, and therefore discourteous. We both assured him it could not
A. Lincoln (search for this): chapter 9
few confidential friends of the President and three soldiers under orders of secrecy? Also, how came it that a few days after this Mr. Stanton was brought into Mr. Lincoln's cabinet? These questions were unanswerable until the publication of the private papers of Secretary Chase, which shed ample light on them. Why Mr. Stanton rfeel satisfied, however, that I have acted right and with just deference to all concerned, and have in no respect deviated from the truth. My relations with Mr. Lincoln were generally very pleasant, and I seldom had trouble with him when we could meet face to face. The difficulty always arose behind my back. I believe that he I think he enjoyed these things quite as much as his listeners. Long before the war, when vice-president of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, I knew Mr. Lincoln, for he was one of the counsel of the company. More than once I have been with him in out-of-the-way county-seats where some important case was being tried, an
Salmon P. Chase (search for this): chapter 9
ton interview at the President's office Salmon P. Chase relations with Mr. Lincoln anecdotes Pttee of New York bankers were urging upon Secretary Chase the removal of Mr. Cameron. I interferednsisting of the President, Secretaries Seward, Chase, and Blair, Gens. McDowell, Franklin, and Meig before the date of this meeting I had given Mr. Chase a sketch of the proposed Urbana movement, an that it was by direction of the President. Mr. Chase knew at the time that the President had no k about my plans. At this previous interview Mr. Chase seemed very grateful for the confidence I rent my achieving success. After this time Secretary Chase worked with them and became my enemy. ctured. Willing to be made War Secretary by Mr. Chase's intrigues, he may not have been so willingon, and left his bed to visit the President, Mr. Chase devoted himself to concentrating the plans f as follows (see Warden's Account, etc., of S. P. Chase, p. 400): January 12, 1862.--At church [10 more...]
J. K. F. Mansfield (search for this): chapter 9
conversation the same day I repeated this, and added my regret that any other than military considerations and necessities had been allowed to govern his decision. He then assured me that he would allow no other troops to be withdrawn from my command. Before I left for the field Fort Monroe and its dependencies had been placed under my command, and I was authorized to form a division of 10,000 men from the troops stationed there and add it to the Army of the Potomac, placing it under Mansfield. I arrived at Fort Monroe on the afternoon of the 2d of April, and on the 3d received a telegraphic order withdrawing Fort Monroe from my command and forbidding me to remove any of Gen. Ord's troops without his sanction. No reason has ever been given for this step, and I was thus not only deprived of 10,000 more troops, but also of the control of my immediate base of operations and supplies. On the afternoon of the 5th, the right and left wings of the army being under fire from Yorkto
Irwin McDowell (search for this): chapter 9
he circumstances attending the withholding of McDowell's corps, of which his division formed part, writes: McDowell told me that it was intended as a blow at you. That Stanton had said that you intendairs to the President or Secretary of War. Gens. McDowell, Franklin, and, I think, Meigs were entrusted by the President with this business. McDowell, who was probably at the bottom of the affair, ent, Secretaries Seward, Chase, and Blair, Gens. McDowell, Franklin, and Meigs. I do not think thathink Franklin took any special part. Finally McDowell said he wished to explain to me the part he hthis plan by having it carried into effect by McDowell. In no other way can I account for the uncalgues, he may not have been so willing to have McDowell, or any other general closely allied to Mr. C only excuse myself. At President's found Gens. McDowell, Franklin, and Meigs, and Seward and Blairlellan: By direction of the President, General McDowell's army corps has been detached from the f
Charles Davies (search for this): chapter 9
oners in consequence of my being withdrawn from the Peninsula and not properly supported. Taking both East and West, and counting the losses also by disease, I do not doubt that more than half a million of men were sacrificed unnecessarily for the sake of insuring the success of a political party. I do not base my assertions as to the motives of the radical leaders upon mere surmises, but upon facts that have frequently come to my knowledge during the war and since. For instance, Maj. Charles Davies, once professor of mathematics at West Point, told me, and at a different time told Gen. Jos. E. Johnston, the following story: He said that during the very early part of the Peninsular campaign he was one of a commission sent from New York to urge more vigorous action in supporting me. They called upon the President, and found Mr. Stanton with him. In reply to their statement of the purpose of their visit Mr. Stanton stated that the great end and aim of the war was to abolish slav
J. A. Dix (search for this): chapter 9
he co-operation of the navy in reducing the batteries at Yorktown and Gloucester. On the 15th of March the aggregate present and absent under my command was about 233,578, taking as a basis the return of March 1; the number present for duty, including all extra-duty men, guards, etc., etc., was 203,213. Of these I purposed to leave behind, in Baltimore, Washington, and the Shenandoah, an aggregate of 66,552, brought up by new arrivals to about 77,401 at the close of March, or, deducting Gen. Dix's command, 65,621, equal to about 57,091 present for duty, with the convalescent hospitals at hand to dram upon. Now, the estimate made of the necessary garrison of Washington by the chiefs of engineers and artillery on the 24th of Oct., 1861 was a little less than 34,000 men, including reserves, so that a force of a little over 23,000 men would have been left for the Shenandoah Valley--much more than enough under the circumstances, if properly handled. I thus expected to take with me
J. Hooker (search for this): chapter 9
nal to explain their capture. Soon after arriving in Washington the President one day sent for me to ask my opinion of Hooker, who was urged for appointment as a brigadier-general of volunteers, and stated that he wished me to regard the conversation as strictly confidential. I told him that Hooker had been a good soldier in Mexico, but that common report stated that he had fallen in California; but that I had no personal knowledge of this, and I advised him to consult with officers who were in California with Hooker. He, however, gave him the appointment a few days later. Remembering that this conversation was sought by the President and that he desired me to regard it as confidential, it was with no little surprise that I learned, after Antietam, that Hooker had been informed of the conversation, except of its confidential nature and that it was sought by the President. As before stated, when Stanton was made Secretary of War I knew nothing of the matter until the nomination
L. Thomas (search for this): chapter 9
o reason has ever been given for this step, and I was thus not only deprived of 10,000 more troops, but also of the control of my immediate base of operations and supplies. On the afternoon of the 5th, the right and left wings of the army being under fire from Yorktown and the works on the line of the Warwick, I received the following telegram: adjutant-general's office, April 4, 1862. Gen. McClellan: By direction of the President, General McDowell's army corps has been detached from the forces under your immediate command, and the general is ordered to report to the Secretary of War. Letter by mail. L. Thomas, Adjutant-General. In addition to the forces already enumerated, at least nine regiments of cavalry were withheld from me, and the order of April 3, discontinuing recruiting for the volunteers, rendered it impossible for me to make good the inevitable losses from disease and battle. The effect of these changes will appear as I resume the narrative of events.
Swinton (search for this): chapter 9
military goods and chattels of the sick man so inopportunely restored to life. Mr. Chase's disappointment at this sudden frustration of his schemes accounts, I suppose, for his anger. In another connection I have already stated that some weeks before the date of this meeting I had given Mr. Chase a sketch of the proposed Urbana movement, and that he was much pleased with it. Here I need only say in addition that I did this entirely of my own volition, for the purpose indicated, and that Mr. Swinton is entirely mistaken in stating that it was by direction of the President. Mr. Chase knew at the time that the President had no knowledge of my intention of talking to him about my plans. At this previous interview Mr. Chase seemed very grateful for the confidence I reposed in him and for my thoughtfulness in thus seeking to relieve his mind in his troubles. I presume the after-thought, and the object of the intrigues, cut short by my recovery, was to take advantage of this plan by hav
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