We are resting on our oars after the victory at Manassas,
while the enemy is drilling and equipping 500,000 or 600,000 men. I hope we may
not soon be floating down stream! We know the enemy is, besides, building
iron-clad steamers — and yet we are not even erecting casemate batteries! We
are losing precious time, and, perhaps, the government is saving, money!
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 75
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