Mr. Taylor, of Cincinnati, who was recently confined in Richmond, furnishes the Cincinnati Press with the following item:
Mr. Taylor says that whatever may be the estimate of the policy of General McClellan in the loyal states, he is regarded by the rebels as [pursuing] a policy most destructive to all their hopes and expectations. His “masterly inactivity” for so long a time, which he has used to strengthen, organize and equip his armies, they regard as a stroke of policy that indicates fearful results to themselves. They admit that time has weakened them while it has strengthened him, and they look with fearful forebodings to the fact that the term of enlistment of fully one-half the troops they have in the field expires before the 25th of February. They regard his resistance of the demand for a “forward movement,” and the silent energy he has evinced, as marks of generalship of the highest order, of a determination to work out his plan of operations despite the complaints of those who do not comprehend his purposes.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, February 15, 1862, p. 2
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