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];