Gen. Jos. E. Johnston has certainly made a skillful retrograde
movement in the face of the enemy at Manassas. He has been keeping McClellan
and his 210,000 men at bay for a long time with about 40,000. After the
abandonment of his works it was a long time before the enemy knew he had
retrograded. They approached very cautiously, and found that they had been awed
by a few Quaker guns — logs of wood in position, and so painted
as to resemble cannon. Lord, how the Yankee press will quiz McClellan!
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 113
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