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for such work (the captured despatch of General Pope giving information of his affairs), and Lee's skill, it seemed the only way open for progressive manoeuvre.
The strength of the move lay in the time it gave us to make issue before all of the Army of the Potomac could unite with the army under General Pope.
His game of hide-and-seek about Bull Run, Centreville, and Manassas Plains was grand, but marred in completeness by the failure of General A. P. Hill to meet his orders for the afternoon of the 28th.
As a leader he was fine; as a wheel-horse, he was not always just to himself.
He was fond of the picturesque.
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