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It encouraged the Peace Party, revived Confederate hopes, and shook the army's faith in Grant's commandership. Martin McMahon, a Union general, writing many years after the event, of which he was a most competent witness, said: "It was the dreary, dismal, bloody, ineffective close of the lieutenant-general's first campaign with the Army of the Potomac." Cold Harbor caused a change of plan.
Joan was abroad at the crack of dawn, galloping here and there and yonder, examining the situation minutely, and choosing what she considered the most effective positions for her artillery; and with such accurate judgment did she place her guns that her Lieutenant-General's admiration of it still survived in his memory when his testimony was taken at the Rehabilitation, a quarter of a century later.
"A night's quarter here in Parchim," such is the Lieutenant-General's request, polite but impressive, from the outskirts of that little Town, a Town essential to certain objects, and in fact the point he is aiming at: "night's quarter; you cannot refuse it to this Prussian Company marching under the Kaiser's Commission?"
As a preliminary for practical activity in that domain, he became private secretary of Gerard Hamilton, the lieutenant-general's assistant for Ireland, but soon found that his chief's smart mediocrity only wanted to turn to advantage the secretary's scantily rewarded talent. He returned to London , and at once entered upon the political career in which he was to play so eminent a part.
Many a member of the liberal professions many a solicitor, for example brings up a family on three pounds a week in the provinces. But for a Lieutenant-General's nephew, who had once had a thousand pounds in one lump, three pounds a week was inadequate. As a fact, Louis conceived himself "Art Director" of Horrocleave's, and sincerely thought that as such he was ill-paid.
So saying, he sighed again, once, twice, and with the third fell fast asleep, and dreamed that a certain White Lion, clad in a Lieutenant-General's uniform, and with a pair of handsome black whiskers, stood balancing himself upon a single claw on the rail of the bed. "And now, Peterby," said Barnabas, pushing his chair from the breakfast table, "the first thing I shall require is a tailor."
The adjutant does not deign to condescend to notice you. He seems to be full of gumbo or calf-tail soup, and does not wish his equanimity disturbed. He takes hold of the document, and writes the lieutenant-general's name, and finishes his own name while looking in another direction approved and forwarded.
To this letter were added a lieutenant-general's commission and the grand cordon of Saint-Louis. The First Consul had reached the point he desired. The Companions of Jehu were destroyed and the Vendee was pacificated. When demanding peace from England he had hoped for war. He understood very well that, born of war, he could exist only by war.
We might have told him that Grant, Butler, and Foster examined their position from Mrs. Grover's house, about four hundred yards distant, two hours after the Rebel cannon-ball danced a break-down on the Lieutenant-General's dinner-table.
"Your betrothed!" I burst out in a fit of jealousy. "You are going to be married?" "And why not?" "Swear that you will not marry before I die. Swear that you will be mine sooner than this lieutenant-general's," I cried. Edmée swore as I asked her, and she made me swear in return that her promise should be a secret.
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