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e, that he has been, from the commencement of the war, provided with the best arts, the utmost abundance of ammunition, and stoves unlimited in quantity, while we in the beginning were poorly armed, and greatly deficient in ammunition. The skill of our Generals has, in every instance nearly, to the courage and perseverance of our troops. We may place the manœuvres by which the battles around Richmond were won, the operations, against Pope, the advance into Maryland, and the capture of Harper's Ferry, alongside of any manœuvres executed by any General within the last hundred years, Frederick and Bonaparte not excepted. When Europe beholds the gigantic fighting on this continent, and the uniformity with which we gain the victory, it is not wonderful that she should be astounded. We who live in these times do not appreciate them as they will be appreciated by posterity. We are making history on a grander scale than it ever was made before. Our army and its chiefs will, fifty years
is which the enemy came out, as usual, second best. The bulk of our army occupied the same position held by it for the last week. Our men were in good spirits, and awaited the enemy's advance. A passenger by the Central train, who left Winchester on Friday and arrived here yesterday afternoon, says that all was quiet on the border when he left, and that a general fight was not deemed imminent. It was not believed that any large force of the enemy had crossed the Potomac except at Harper's Ferry, and the impression prevailed that not more than fifteen thousand occupied that place. Their pickets extended some five or six miles up the road in the direction of Charlestown but no force had visited that place up to Thursday. On Wednesday they came near enough to throw some shell into the town, but soon returned in the direction of the Ferry, and on Thursday morning it was reported that they had recrossed the river into Maryland. The report that a large body had crossed at Shepherd