... this individual was troubled with a kind of insanitypeculiar to all headquarters, arising out of an exaggerated idea of his own importance. I had the pleasure, a few minutes afterward, of hearing ... the curling smoke of their pickets, a few miles away. The cleft of Manassas was plainlyvisible, and I traced the line of the Gap Railway to its junction with the Orange and Alexandria road, belowBull ... to cringe and prevaricate. The women were not generally handsome; their face was indolent, their dress slovenly, and their manner embarrassed. They lopped off the beginningsand the ends of their...