We have also news from Missouri of indications of an
uprising which will certainly clear the State of the few Federal troops
remaining there. The draft will accelerate the movement. And then if we
get Kentucky, as I think we must, we shall add a hundred thousand to our army!
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 149
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