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!