...antage of position wisely chosen by the Federals and skillfully arranged for defense. During Lee's absence Richmond was at the mercy of McClellan; but Magruder was there to keep up a clatter, as Swinton expresses it. No one ever lived who could play off the Grand Seignior with a more lordly air than could Prince John, as Magruder was called. During the absence of Lee he kept up such a clatter that...