There must soon be collisions in the West on a large scale;
but the system of lying, in vogue among the Yankees, most effectually defeats
all attempts at reliable computation of numbers. They say we have 150,000 men
in Tennessee and Kentucky, whereas we have not 60,000. Their own numbers they
represent to be not exceeding 50,000, but I suspect they have three times that
number. The shadows of events are crowding thickly upon us, and the events will
speak for themselves — and that speedily.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 107
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