The first task was to make out detailed schedules and estimates of what would be needed to equip ten thousand men for the field.

This was a unit which could be used by the governor and legislature in estimating the appropriations needed then or subsequently.

Intervals in this labor were used in discussing the general situation and plans of campaign.

Before the close of the week McClellan drew up a paper embodying his own views, and forwarded it to Lieutenant-General Scott.

He read it to me, and my recollection of it is that he suggested two principal lines of movement in the West,--one, to move eastward by the Kanawha valley with a heavy column to co-operate with an army in front of Washington; the other, to march directly southward and to open the valley of the Mississippi.