[135] The third, fourth, and sixth. Schouler, Mass. in the Civil War, i. 52.
[136] Schouler, Mass. in the Civil War, i. 72.
[137] Mayor Brown thinks that the estimate of these at 20,000 is too great. Brown, Baltimore and Nineteenth April, 1861, p. 85.
[138] N. and H. iv. 98; Chittenden, 102; Lee's biographer, Childe, says that "President Lincoln offered him the effective command of the Union Army," and that Scott "conjured him ... not to quit the army." Childe, Lee, 30.
[139] Shortly before this time he had written to his son that it was "idle to talk of secession," that it was "nothing but revolution" and "anarchy." N. and H. iv. 99.
[140] Childe, Lee, 32; Mr. Childe, p. 33, says that Lee's resignation was accepted on the 20th (the very day on which his letter was dated!), so that he "ceased to be a member of the United States Army" before he took command of the state forces. Per contra, N. and H. iv. 101.
[141] Childe, Lee, 34.
[142] Greeley in his Amer. Conflict, i. 349, says that the "open Secessionists were but a handful." This, however, is clearly an exaggerated statement.