But the Marylanders have not risen yet. Some of our
divisions have touched the soil of Pennsylvania. And I believe the whole
Yankee host would leave Washington, escaping by the Potomac, if it were not for
the traitors here, who go to Norfolk and Baltimore by flag of truce, and inform
the Lincoln Government (for pay) that we have no troops here — none between this
and Manassas, none all the way to Lee, while thousands in the army are
prostrated with physical exhaustion.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 152
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