Chapter XIV: Life in Washington

Moves family to Washington--Pleasant society--Takes hold Fourteen
Years' Bill--Reorganization of army--Urges brother officers to
do "their duty to their profession"--Army man, not a corps
man--Moves to Mrs. Janney's, on 8th Street--Takes family to
Newport for summer, 1851--Another phrenological chart--Rents
house on 3d Street and goes to housekeeping--George Watson
Stevens--Letters to wife--Responds to toast of Army and Navy
at banquet to Kossuth--Advocates coast defenses, and writes
articles--Appointed member of Lighthouse Board--Sells Bucksport
house--Advocates election of General Franklin Pierce as
President--Articles in "Boston Post"--Speeches in Andover,
Newport, and Portsmouth--Taken to task by Secretary of War
Conrad--Pungent reply--Leader among young officers--Numerous
calls--Friendship with Professor Bache--Continued improvement
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