Rigid duty -- Patience and perseverance -- Wholesome water -- An aqueduct worthy of the nation -- A rival to the Parthenon -- The great drama -- The Saturday Club -- The workload grows -- Rowdy looking -- Energetic, obliging, firm -- An inscription for all time -- Everything into confusion -- Eternal blot -- Tall and awkward candidate -- Floyd resigns -- He plucked a laurel -- A secret mission -- Much praise for Meigs -- Building an army -- Shoddy -- Sinews of war -- The war cannot be long -- Gunboats -- His best name is honesty -- Vast in quantity -- Exhaustion steals over the country -- Fret him and fret him -- Exhaustion of men and money -- A beauteous bubble -- A vulnerable capital -- The refit at Savannah -- The journey home -- Dogs to their vomit -- Soldier, engineer, architect, scientist, patriot.
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