It showed in his quick, eager gestures and his emphatic manner.

He attracted the two boys, but the sergeant shook his head somewhat solemnly.
"They say Scott was too old," he said, "and now they've gone to the other end of it.

McClellan's too young to handle the great armies that are going into the field.

I'm afraid he won't be a match for them old veterans like Johnston and Lee." "Napoleon became famous all over the world when he was only twenty-six," said Warner.
"That's so," retorted Whitley, "but I never heard of any other Napoleon.
The breed began and quit with him." But the soldiers crowding the capital had full confidence in "Little Mac," as they had already begun to call him.

Those off duty followed and cheered him and the President, until they entered the White House and disappeared within its doors.