We have, I think, some 40,000 pretty well armed men in
Virginia, sent hither from other States. Virginia has — I know not how many;
but she should have at least 40,000 in the field. This will enable us to cope
with the Federal army of 70,000 volunteers, and the regular forces they may
hurl against us. But so far as this department is aware, Virginia has not yet two
regiments in the service for three years, or the war. And here the war will
be sure to rage till the end!
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 55-6
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