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52 demnation. Gen. McClellan (according to Hallecks official report) at the time Pope was fighting with the hordes of rebels at Brister Thoroughfare gap, Gainsville, and Bull Run, when ordered by Hallack to move to his support returned to that General which suited him, namely "Place the army of the Potomac in the defenses of Washington, let Pope get out of his scrape." My God??? is is possible that any one leaving a commission in the United States army, could ever thing of that as anything but the nations scrape, as though Gen. Pope was the only one interested, this shows Gen. McClellan to lack that devoted patriotism which an officer in the army ought to possess. But allow me here to say that Gen. McClellan, was in this respect just like nine tenths of the officers in our army. Devoted patriots were, and are, as scarce as hens teeth, not only among officers but also among privates. We set out from Rockville about the 10 of September. We necessarily moved slowly, nevertheless we expelled the enemy from Maryland and Pennsylvania in the remarkably short period of eight days. On the 11th we first saw the enemy on the 12th we followed as far as the little village of