a strip from my dress,” she said; “do not hesitate—be

looked upon generally as a lamentable failure, yet there were many

who still had the utmost confidence in General Buell, and they

repelled with some asperity the reflections cast upon him by his

critics. These admirers held him blameless throughout for the

blunders of the campaign, but the greater number laid every error at

his door, and even went to the absurdity of challenging his loyalty

in a mild way, but they particularly charged incompetency at

Perryville, where McCook's corps was so badly crippled while nearly