Scott's answer was appreciative and flattering, without distinctly approving his plan; and I have never doubted that the paper prepared the way for his appointment in the regular army which followed at so early a day.

[Footnote: I am not aware that McClellan's plan of campaign has been published.

Scott's answer to it is given in General Townsend's "Anecdotes of the Civil War," p.260.It was, with other communications from Governor Dennison, carried to Washington by Hon.

A.F.Perry of Cincinnati, an intimate friend of the governor, who volunteered as special messenger, the mail service being unsafe.

See a paper by Mr.Perry in "Sketches of War History" (Ohio Loyal Legion), _vol.iii._ p.
345.] During this week McClellan was invited to take the command of the troops to be raised in Pennsylvania, his native State.