...e I a lieutenant-colonel, I should feel cheap to be ordered to convey a parcel of scrubby politicians under arrest! But that is the work that Washington soldiers may expect to spend their lives in. General Meade , I fancy, looked with high contempt on the two factions. That somebody only does it, he said, to appear efficient and get an office. As to X----, he said he thought it a trying thing for a gentl...