The old mystery and uncertainty about the Southern army returned.

It suddenly disappeared from Frederick, and McClellan became extremely cautious.

He had nearly a hundred thousand men, veterans now, but he believed that Lee had two hundred thousand.
Colonel Winchester again complained bitterly to Dick, who was a comrade as well as an aide.
"What we need," he said, "is a general who doesn't see double, and we haven't got him yet.

We must spend less time counting the rebels and more hammering them." "A civilian in Washington told me that," said Dick.

"I believed then that he was right, and I believe it yet.