His nervous system had doubtless been deranged by the removal of his favorite Chief, or rather Dictator, as he had hoped he might be. "No one could command the army but McClellan.'...his whimsical movements, now galloping furiously and purposeless from front to rear, and from rear to front of his command, cursing the officers,--and that for fancied neglect of duty,--poorly concealed the workings of his mind.
That last is part of the the same paragraph as the sentence ending with "but McClellan" but I do not know what it refers to.
That last is part of the the same paragraph as the sentence ending with "but McClellan" but I do not know what it refers to.