The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Halleck's report.

Halleck has made his report, and it has been laid before the Yankee Congress. He states the loss of McClellan at Boonburough and Sharpsburg to have been about 10,800. McClellan himself, a week after the battle, when he had received all the returns from the different divisions, placed it at 14,796. It is plain, therefore, that the Secretary lies will fully and deliberately. There can be no question that McClellan greatly underrated his loss. The correspondent of the New York Tribune said the loss reached 28,609, and the Baltimore Clipper estimated it at 30,000. That it very nearly reached that figure is rendered probable by the general opinion at Washington that the Yankees lost more men, in proportion, on that occasion than they had in any other battle of the war, and their army was known to be 150,000 strong Halleck severely censures McClellan for not advancing and putting an end to the war by capturing or dispersing the whole of Gen. Lee's army. He did not advanced because he could not. His army had been too severely crippled to admit of it, it took him works to acquire reinforcements enough to fill up the gaps in his ranks. Had he advanced his whole army would have been destroyed. Had he really lost only 10,890 men out of 150,000, (one fifteenth only) does any man suppose he would not have advanced?

It has been the whole aim of the Yankees in this war to falsify facts, and to cover up the shame of their defeat.