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The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Halleck's misrepresentations — Beauregard's Reply. (search)
ernoon at the War Department: Halleck's Headquarters, June 4, 1862. Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War: Gen. Pope, with 40,000 men, is thirty miles south of Corinth, pushing the enemy hard. He already reports 10,000 prisoners and do or three days. The result is all I could possibly desire. H. W.Halleck, Major General Commanding." Gen. Pope did not "push hard" upon me with 40,000 men, thirty miles from Corinth, on the 4th inst., for my troops occupied a defensi until the 8th inst., when the want of good water induced me to retire at my leisure to a better position; moreover, if Gen. Pope had attempted, at any time during the retreat from Corinth, to push hard upon me, I would have given him such a lesson men under my orders, and must be looked upon in every respect by the country as equivalent to a brilliant victory. Gen. Pope must certainly have dreamed of having taking 10,000 prisoners and 15,000 stand of arms! for we positively never lost t