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The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
The Murfreesboro' battle. General Rosecrans, in a dispatch announcing the total rout of the Confederate army at Murfreesboro', proves himself as reckless of truth and conscience as McClellan, Pope, Burt and the Federal leaders in general. We know that to "He like a bulletin," has long since passed into a proverb, and that is a military maxim that lying in order to gain an advantage over an enemy a lawful. But the morality, or even the expediency, of always claiming a great victory, whether the fact warrant the assumption or not, in more than questionable. We are happy to believe that our own Generals have not degraded themselves and their cause by pretending to achievements which they have never performed. General Lee is the model General of the age in this respect. His reports of battles always fall below, rather than above, the results which have been actually accomplished. But what is the habit of the Federal General? Just what we might expect from a people who ha