The enemy's papers represent that we have some 80,000 men in
Kentucky, and this lulls us from vigilance and effort in Virginia. The
Secretary of War knows very well that we have not 30,000 there, and that we are
not likely to have more. We supposed Kentucky would rise. The enemy knows this
fact as well as we do; nevertheless, it has been his practice from the
beginning to exaggerate our numbers. It lulls us into fancied security.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 86-7
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