[CHAPTER XXIII.]
He that outlives this day and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named.
King Henry V.
Much work for tears in many an English mother,
Whose sons lie scattered on the bleeding ground.
King John.
Ordered to Washington.
During the siege of Cincinnati, the Managing Editor telegraphed me thus:
"Repair to Washington without any delay."
An hour afterward I was upon an eastern train.
At the Capital, I found orders to join the Army of the Potomac. It was during Lee's first invasion. In Pennsylvania, the governor and leading officials nearly doubled the Confederate army, estimating it at two hundred thousand men.