I asked to take my leave, and the President and Mr.Seward drove back to Washington.

This spirit of mutiny was common to the whole army, and was not subdued till several regiments or parts of regiments had been ordered to Fort Jefferson, Florida, as punishment.
General McDowell had resumed his headquarters at the Arlington House, and was busily engaged in restoring order to his army, sending off the ninety-days men, and replacing them by regiments which had come under the three-years call.

We were all trembling lest we should be held personally accountable for the disastrous result of the battle.

General McClellan had been summoned from the West to Washington, and changes in the subordinate commands were announced almost daily.

I remember, as a group of officers were talking in the large room of the Arlington House, used as the adjutant-general's office, one evening, some young officer came in with a list of the new brigadiers just announced at the War Department, which-embraced the names of Heintzehvan, Keyes, Franklin, Andrew Porter, W.T.Sherman, and others, who had been colonels in the battle, and all of whom had shared the common stampede.