. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . WASHINGTON ON THE El^E OF THE necessary to concentrate at Washington, in that season, a force of threethousand regular troops. Even had President Buchanan been desiious of bring-ing troops to the capital, the feverish condition of the pubhc mind would, asthe executive believed, have been badly affected by anymovement of the kind, and the approaching crisis mighthave been precipitated. I saw at once that the only forcewhich could be readily made of service was a volunteerfor
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . WASHINGTON ON THE El^E OF THE necessary to concentrate at Washington, in that season, a force of threethousand regular troops. Even had President Buchanan been desiious of bring-ing troops to the capital, the feverish condition of the pubhc mind would, asthe executive believed, have been badly affected by anymovement of the kind, and the approaching crisis mighthave been precipitated. I saw at once that the only forcewhich could be readily made of service was a volunteerforce raised from among the well-disposed men of the Dis-trict, and that this must be organized, if at all, under theold law of 1799. By consultation with gentlemen weUacquainted with the various classes of Washington society,I endeavored to learn what proportion of the able-bodiedpopulation could be counted on to sustain the Governmentshould it need support from the armed and organizedcitizens. On the 31st of December, 1860, Lieutenant-GeneralScott, General-in-Chief of the army (who had his head-quarters In New York), was in Washington. The Presi-
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