A little skirmish
to-day, amounting to almost nothing. A party of four or five hundred went out
in the morning, came upon the enemy's pickets, and firing on them, drove them
in. Then, on returning, our four or five hundred found five men in the field,
drawing manure, and well armed with shovels and dung-forks. We took them all
prisoners, without losing a man! Wonder, if by to-morrow, this cannot be
magnified into another "Great Victory," to offset the terrible
disaster at Edward's Ferry. This "Grand Army of the Potomac" is a
great field in which to win glory. Victories make glory, and victories with us
are very cheap.
SOURCE: Alfred L.
Castleman, The Army of the Potomac. Behind the Scenes. A Diary of
Unwritten History; From the Organization of the Army, by General George B.
McClellan, to the close of the Campaign in Virginia about the First Day
January, 1863, p. 48
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