George returned to Alexandria, where his regiment awaited him. He was mad with rage and chagrin. He could have taken censure with humility, feeling sure that whatever mistakes he had made were those of inexperience, not a want of zeal or courage. But to be quietly supplanted, to be asked--after all the hardships and dangers he had passed through, and the exoneration from blame by his countrymen--to take a humiliating place, was more than he felt he ought to bear.