on --
Invasion of Maryland -- Strange story about Stanton -- Richmond never
invested -- McClellan in search of the enemy -- Thirty miles in six
days -- The telegrams -- Wadsworth -- Capitulation of Harper's Ferry
-- Five days' fighting -- Brave Hooker wounded -- No results -- No
reports from McClellan -- Tactics of the Maryland campaign -- Nobody
hurt in the staff -- Charmed lives -- Wadsworth, Judge Conway, Wade,
Boutwell, Andrew -- This most intelligent people become the
laughing-stock of the world! -- The proclamation of emancipation --
Seward to the Paisley Association -- Future complications -- If Hooker
had not been wounded! -- The military situation -- Sigel persecuted by
West Point -- Three cheers for the carriage and six! -- How the great
captain was to catch the rebel army -- Interview with the Chicago
deputation -- Winter quarters -- The conspiracy against Sigel --
Numbers of the rebel army -- Letters of marque.

OCTOBER, 1862. 288

Costly infatuation -- The do-nothing strategy -- Cavalry on lame
horses -- Bayonet charges -- Antietam -- Effect of the Proclamation --
Disasters in the West -- The Abolitionists not originally hostile to
McClellan -- Helplessness in the War Department -- Devotedness of the
people -- McClellan and the proclamation -- Wilkes -- Colonel Key --
Routine engineers -- Rebel raid into Pennsylvania -- Stanton's
sincerity -- Oh, unfighting strategians -- The administration a
success -- _De gustibus_ -- Stuart's raid -- West Point -- St. Domingo
-- The President's letter to McClellan -- Broad church -- The
elections -- The Republican party gone -- The remedy at the polls --
McClellan wants to be relieved -- Mediation -- Compromise -- The
rhetors -- The optimists -- The foreigners -- Scott and Buchanan --
Gladstone -- Foreign opinion and action -- Both the extremes to be put
down -- Spain -- Fremont's campaign against Jackson -- Seward's
circular -- General Scott's gift -- "Oh, could I go to a camp!" --
McClellan crosses the Potomac -- Prays for rain -- Fevers decimate the
regiments -- Martindale and Fitz John Porter -- The political balance
to be preserved -- New regiments -- O poor country!

NOVEMBER, 1862. 311

Empty rhetoric -- The future dark and terrible -- Wadsworth defeated
-- The official bunglers blast everything they touch -- Great and holy
day! McClellan gone overboard!