"Traditions and associations ... were all on the side of the old Whig Party"
"I can do as well as anyone in both my studies and my military duties"
Political realignment
"A strong Democrat of the Stephen A. Douglas school"
To kill secession
"A new and strange position"
Supreme command
"You have no idea of the pressure brought to bear here"
"What do you think of the science of generalship?"
The Peninsula campaign
"I do not like the . . . turn that affairs are taking"
"He has acted badly"
"To meet the necessities of the moment"
"The most terrible battle"
"It is my duty to submit to the presdt's proclamation & quietly continue doing my duty"
The last campaign.