. Civil War officers. Union . Clellan kept insisting on to McClellans staff. The officers weremore troops, and more time to get them ushered into the room on the left of theready for effective action. But the clamor entrance hall, opposite the parlor, andwas so great that the President, on at there awaited the coming of their chief,least one occasion, after convening a Lieutenant -Wilson amused himself bycouncil of war and finding that twelve looking out of the window, which com-of the twenty officers composing it agreed manded a view of H street for a blockwith McClellan threw overboard their
. Civil War officers. Union . Clellan kept insisting on to McClellans staff. The officers weremore troops, and more time to get them ushered into the room on the left of theready for effective action. But the clamor entrance hall, opposite the parlor, andwas so great that the President, on at there awaited the coming of their chief,least one occasion, after convening a Lieutenant -Wilson amused himself bycouncil of war and finding that twelve looking out of the window, which com-of the twenty officers composing it agreed manded a view of H street for a blockwith McClellan threw overboard their d:- or eo in either direction. Presently hocieion and Issued peremptory orders him- announced to his colleagues that he hadIn defiance thereof. Sometimes the seen President Lincoln and General Hal- corresnondence between Washington and leek, General-in-Chief of the Armiesthe field became positively acrimonious, tta JlftJted States. waJklDg up whatas where, after describing the slaughter Iat Gaines Mill, McClellanStanton:__ ,. telegraphed Ls sued by Mr. Lincoln. The usual prelim-inary to a conference between a Presi-dent and one of his subordinates is amessage requesting the presence of thelatter at the White House, where it, isthe President who keeps him wa ug, nothe the President. General McClellan wastoo generous-minded a man ever to gloatover his triumph, and too good a custo-dian of confidences to prate of what oc-curred at that interview in the H street ,I parlor- but later events gave a cue toIndicate that in the little while he sat at •his breakfast table while his two supe-riors in office cooled their heels in anouter room, he turned over in his mindthe possible purpose of thcir visit, anddecided upon the terms hewas to exactof them as an element in his impending vindication. F. E. ■ WHEN MCLELUN
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