hampered by Lincoln's detaching men to protect Washington, 341;
discredited by Johnston's evacuation of Manassas, 342;
denounced Committee on Conduct of War, 342;
begins advance, 343;
annoyed at being relieved from general command, 343;
exasperated at action of Lincoln in forming corps and appointing commanders, 344, 345;
authorizes Halleck to arrest Grant, 360;
approves Buell's plan, 360;
his career compared with Halleck's, 365, 366;
promises to put down any slave insurrection, ii. [8];