We have some of Gen. Pope's proclamations and orders. He is
simply a braggart, and will meet a braggart's fate. He announces his purpose to
subsist his army in our country, and moreover, he intends to shoot or hang our
non-combating citizens that may fall into his hands, in retaliation for the
killing of any of his thieving and murdering soldiers by our avenging
guerrillas. He says his headquarters will be on his horse, and that he will
make no provision for retreat. That he has been accustomed to see the backs of
his enemies! Well, we shall see how he will face a Stonewall!
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 143
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