. . . writing home to a friend says: –
“I well remember your enthusiastic shouts when the Manassas victory was won, but did you ever dream for a moment that it was our last grand victory! God forbid, and yet it looks so. A Zollicoffer has fallen; a Marshall, has had a retreat; Johnson as fallen back; Hardin is mum; Buckner has gone to the sunny South, and we, with Hindman, are loafing around the camp and Barren county, stealing everything that we can lay our hands upon.”
That soldier, if living, might now add a postscript of still more goomy aspect, and include in it Johnson’s and Buckner’s present condition.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, February 18, 1862, p. 2
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