We see by the Northern papers that Pope claimed a great
victory over Lee and Jackson! It was too much even for the lying editors
themselves! The Federal army being hurled back on the Potomac, and then
compelled to cross it, it was too transparently ridiculous for the press to
contend for the victory. And now they confess to a series of defeats from the
26th June to the culminating calamity of the 30th August. They acknowledge they
have been beaten — badly beaten — but they will not admit that our army has
crossed into Maryland. Well, Lee's dispatch to the President is dated “Headquarters,
Frederick City.” We believe him.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 152
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