...d Captains Thos. B. Massie and John C. Porter, of the 7th Virginia Regiment, ought to have choked the breath of its correspondent — whose rapid, almost instantaneous report can but remind us of Pollock 's description of the man in whom the spirit of slander had entered — who with "heart black as death had legs faint with haste to propagate the lie his soul had framed," They begged first for an...