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Impudent lying.
At the commencement of this war Halleck advised his Government never to acknowledge a defeat, no matter how disastrous, and always to claim a victory, no matter how badly defeated!
The Yankee Generals have acted persistently upon this advice throughout the war, but until the present campaign lying as an institution was not regularly organized by the Government.
Since that time the Secretary of War himself has been in the field fighting imaginary battles and gaining imaginary victories with the telegraph with such rapidity, that most people have wondered why he does not order his Generals to confine their operations to the telegraph, and leave the field entirely, since by the former they never fail to triumph, whereas by the latter they generally come to grief.
The example of their chief has infused new energy into the Generals.
Sheridan, whose mission it was to destroy the Central Railroad, and afterwards to unite with Hunter and assist in taking Lynchburg, t