Diplomatic circulars seasoned by stories -- Battle before Richmond -- Casey's division disgraced -- McClellan afterwards confesses he was misinformed -- Fair Oaks -- "Nobody is hurt, only the bleeding people" -- Fremont disobeys orders -- N. Y. Times, World, and Herald, opinion-poisoning sheets -- Napoleon never visible before nine o'clock in the morning -- Hooker and the other fighters soldered to the mud -- Senator Sumner shows the practical side of his intellect -- "Slavery a big job!" -- McClellan sends for mortars -- Defenders of slavery in Congress worse than the rebels -- Wooden guns and cotton sentries at Corinth -- The navy is glorious -- Brave old Gideon Welles! -- July 4th to be celebrated in Richmond! -- Colonization again -- Justice to France -- New regiments -- The people sublime! -- Congress -- Lincoln visits Scott -- McDowell -- Pope -- Disloyalty in the departments. JULY, 1862. 233 Intervention -- The cursed fields of the Chickahominy -- Titanic fightings, but no generalship -- McClellan the first to reach James river -- The Orleans leave -- July 4th, the gloomiest since the birth of the republic -- Not reinforcements, but brains, wanted; and brains not transferable! -- The people run to the rescue -- Rebel tactics -- Lincoln does not sacrifice Stanton -- McClellan not the greatest culprit -- Stanton a true statesman -- The President goes to James river -- The Union as it was, a throttling nightmare! -- A man needed! -- Confiscation bill signed -- Congress adjourned -- Mr. Dicey -- Halleck, the American Carnot -- Lincoln tries to neutralize the confiscation bill -- Guerillas spread like locusts. AUGUST, 1862. 245 Emancipation -- The President's hand falls back -- Weed sent for -- Gen. Wadsworth -- The new levies -- The Africo-Americans not called for -- Let every Northern man be shot rather! -- End of the Peninsula campaign -- Fifty or sixty thousand dead -- Who is responsible? -- The army saved -- Lincoln and McClellan -- The President and the Africo-Americans -- An Eden in Chiriqui -- Greeley -- The old lion begins to awake -- Mr. Lincoln tells stories -- The rebels take the offensive -- European opinion -- McClellan's army landed -- Roebuck -- Halleck -- Butler's mistakes -- Hunter recalled -- Terrible fighting at Manassas -- Pope cuts his way through -- Reinforcements slow incoming -- McClellan reduced in command. SEPTEMBER, 1862. 258