. . . that the rebels have 30,000 troops at that place. Obviously this is a gross exaggeration. The stories of enormous rebel armies are
about “played out.” It was reported some
time ago that the army at Columbus, Kentucky, consisted of forty thousand
men. The fact is the force which
evacuated that place was only sixteen thousand strong. There are not thirty thousand fighting men
concentrated at any one point by the rebels save at Manassas.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 1
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