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The Daily Dispatch: August 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], [from the Sunday Delta.] (search)
d to take the oath of allegiance again. I left the General and took a stroll with Bob. Bob talked freely about the national troubles, and wound us by telling me he didn't care a continental — how things went so long as the old woman had the run of the old man's rhino; and if Jeff Davis wanted to take possession of Washington, all he asked was that the family be permitted to leak out before the Confederates got in. Thus I was allowed to go where I pleased until Sunday morning, the 21st July, when I was summoned to the presence of General Scott. "Asa," said he, with his foot in a bucket of ice water, "look at that dispatch, which I have just received from our brave General McDowell. Don't you think your Jeff. Davis, (here a horrible pain seemed to strike the old man) and your Beauregard, and your Johnston had better simmer down? Do you think they can stand before our brave 60,000." I didn't have any better sense than to tell old F. & F I thought they could. I read