Then Pope resigned, and the star
of McClellan rose again. The command of the armies about Washington
was entrusted to him, and the North gathered itself anew for the mighty
struggle.
CHAPTER VII
ORDERS NO. 191
When the Union army, defeated at the Second Manassas fell back on
Washington, Dick was detached for a few days from the regiment by Colonel
Winchester, partly that he might have a day or two of leave, and partly
that he might watch over Warner, who was making good progress.
Warner was in a wagon that contained half a dozen other wounded men,
or rather boys, and they were all silent like stoics as they passed over
the bridge to a hospital in Washington. His side and shoulder pained him,
and he had recurrent periods of fever, but he was making fine progress.
Dick found his comrade on a small cot among dozens of others in a great
room. But George's cot was near a window and the pleasant sunshine
poured in. It was now the opening of September, and the hot days were
passing. There was a new sparkle and crispness in the air, and Warner,
wounded as he was, felt it.
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