[21] April 22, 1861.
[22] April 30, 1861.
[23] June 24, 1861.
[24] Ibid., June 27.
[25] "Do you pretend to know more about military affairs than General Scott? ask a few knaves, whom a great many simpletons know no better than to echo. No, Sirs! we know very little of the art of war, and General Scott a great deal. The real question—which the above is asked only to shuffle out of sight—is this: Does General Scott contemplate the same ends, and is he animated by like impulses and purposes, with the great body of the loyal, liberty-loving people of this country? Does he want the Rebels routed, or would he prefer to have them conciliated?"—Ibid., July 1, 1861.
[26] Of 49 regiments engaged, 19 were from New York, and of the 3,343 killed, wounded, and missing, 1,230 were New Yorkers.—Official Records, Series 1, Vol. 2, pp. 314, 315, 351, 387, 405, 426.
[27] See the New York Tribune, Herald, Times, World, Evening Post, July 22, 23, 25, and later dates.
[28] New York Journal of Commerce, News, Day-Book, Freeman's Journal, Brooklyn Eagle.—Appleton's Cyclopædia, 1861, p. 329.
[29] "I have had a conversation this morning with a prominent Democrat, who is entirely devoted to sustaining the government in the present struggle. He informs me that the leaders of that party are opposed to the war and sympathise with the South; that they keep quiet because it will not advance their views to move just now." Letter of William Gray, dated September 4, to Secretary Chase.—Chase Papers, MS.
[30] New York Herald, August 9, 1861.