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es of Manassas, not the Seven Pines, not the Chickahominy, not Fredericksburg, not Chancellorsville, not the Wilderness, not the Cold Harbor, not the Petersburg mine, not, in one word, the command of the Army of the Potomac! If Butler sees fit to answer that other military critic of the Herald, and is disposed to tell the truth (a crime which even Yankees are capable of committing in self-defence), he may correct the figures of the Herald when it speaks of its Americans, i. e., Germans, Irish, negroes, and some Yankees, being led by regular officers "against an equal number of their rebellious brethren in charge of educated soldiers." There have been few battles in this war in which the numbers were equal, or anything like it. The Yankees have been boasting from the beginning that their population outnumbered us four to one, and claim that they have, from first to last, had an army of three millions. We will not take advantage even of their official lies, but the fact is undoubt
much of the freshness, vigor and fight out of them. From Tennessee — movements of Thomas, Rosecrans and Gillem — Rumored raid into Southwestern Virginia. Recent advices from Tennessee are to the effect that Gillem has been reinforced by Thomas, with cavalry, at Knoxville, Tennessee, preparatory, it is thought, for a move into Southwestern Virginia. Thomas has garrisoned Tunnel Hill and Chattanooga with three regiments at each place. Three small regiments of negroes, Dutch and Irish, are at Bridgeport, and two regiments at Stevenson. The garrisons are very small from Stevenson to Huntsville. The rest of Thomas's army is at Huntsville, Decatur and Eastport. Rosecrans has five brigades in Middle Tennessee, scouring the country for supplies and recruits. The "rebel" soldiers they catch have the choice of joining the Yankees or being shot.--Stokes's brigade is the most conspicuous in the work. Preparations for the attack on Mobile. We learn that the gar
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