.... When appointed brigadier-general I at once thought it proper that one of my aides should come from the regiment I had been commanding, and so selected Lieutenant C. B. Lagow. While living in St. Louis , I had had a desk in the law office of McClellan, Moody and [William S.] Hillyer. Difference in views between the members of the firm on the questions of the day, and general hard times in the bord...