The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Washington correspondent . . .

. . . writes that the officers who were captured by the rebels at Ball’s Bluff, and have recently been liberated, have been examined by the Conduct of the War Committee.  They were all of the opinion that had General Stone moved up the men he had crossed at Edward’s Ferry, and attacked the rebels in the rear, he could easily have driven them beyond Leesburg in less than an hour from the time the men left Leesburg.  Col. Lee says that the rebels taunted him with being “sold,” but that he never knew that any men had crossed at Edward’s Ferry until his return from Richmond.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 2