...ould have been very different. In that case, with the discipline, instruction, and armament sufficiently advanced — which was not the fact — I would not have hesitated to throw Banks on Winchester with 15,000 men, to act on the left flank of the enemy at Manassas, and, reducing the garrison of Washington to 10,000 men, advance on Manassas with 60,000 men; that would have been the best that cou...