Jackson and Ewell and Stuart are after Pope, but I learn
they are not allowed to attempt any enterprise for some weeks yet. Fatal error,
I fear. For we have advices at the department that Pope has not now exceeding
20,000 men, but that all the rolling stock of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
is ordered West to bring reinforcements. Besides, the United States Government
is calling for 600,000 additional men. Then again, McClellan and Burnside will
form a junction with Pope, and we will be outnumbered. But the President and
Gen. Lee know best what is to be done. We have lost many of the flower of Southern
chivalry in the late conflicts.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 143
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