On my statement of the case, Bailey Peyton said, "General Wool, I think General Sherman has a right to a written answer from you, for he is surely compromised." Upon this Wool handed me the letter.

I opened and read it, and it denied any promise of arms, but otherwise was extremely evasive and non-committal.

I had heard of the arrival at the wharf of the Governor and party, and was expecting them at Wool's room, but, instead of stopping at the hotel where we were, they passed to another hotel on the block above.

I went up and found there, in a room on the second floor over the bar-room, Governor Johnson, Chief-Justice Terry, Jones, of Palmer, Cooke & Co., E.D.Baker, Volney E.Howard, and one or two others.

All were talking furiously against Wool, denouncing him as a d---d liar, and not sparing the severest terms.