For the last hour I have been watching President Lincoln and General McClellan as they sat together in earnest conversat

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For the last hour I have been watching President Lincoln and General McClellan as they sat together in earnest conversation on the deck of a steamer closer to us. I am thankful, I am happy, that the President has come ג€" has sprung across the dreadful intervening Washington, and come to see and hear and judge for his own wise and noble self. While we were at dinner someone said, ג€Why, thereג€™s the President!ג€ and he proved to be just arriving on the Ariel, at the end of the wharf. I stationed myself at once to watch for the coming of McClellan. The President stood on deck with a glass, with which, after a time, he inspected our boat, waving his handkerchief to us. My eyes and soul were in the direction of the general headquarters, over which the great balloon was slowly descending.The ג€great balloon was slowly descendingג€ is apparently:

A. the sun setting
B. remnants of a firestorm of the Potomac
C. the moon over the river
D. a mirage E. McClellanג€™s transport arriving