Jackson struck Pope yesterday! It was a terrible blow, for
the numbers engaged. Several thousand of the enemy were killed, wounded, and
taken prisoners. Among the latter is Gen. Prince, who arrived in this city this
morning. He affected to be ignorant of Pope's brutal orders, and of the
President's retaliatory order concerning the commissioned officers of Pope's
army taken in battle. When Prince was informed that he and the fifty or sixty
others taken with him were not to be treated as prisoners of war, but as felons,
he vented his execrations upon Pope. They were sent into close confinement.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 148
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