Camp Jones, Flat Top Mountain. — . . . It seems on
reflection that McClellan has been forced back in seven days — six of them days
of fighting — about fifteen to twenty-five miles; that he has probably not lost
very heavily in artillery or stores; that the weight of the attacks on him have
[has] been too heavy and have [has] forced him back. Well, then, our columns
must be rapidly made heavier. We shall see!
. . . Nothing new from Richmond today. What is the condition
there? Is our army merely pushed back by superior numbers or has it been
defeated?
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 297
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