... to say, three average brigades would have had not less than 7000 men); and what Mr. Davis calls two brigades of 4000 effective were, in fact, Anderson's division sent to observe McDowell's corps at Fredericksburg , and so large that General Lee called it the army of the North, and estimated it as 10,000 men; and the second, Branch's brigade, greatly strengthened to protect the railroad at Gordonsville, and es...