New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-06
a CoNFEDERATE GENERAL ON THE WAR

tain portions OF the recent reports OF secretary
Stanton and Gen. Grant.
/ From his position IN the Confederate army Gen.
Early enjoyed nrsnr passed opportunities tor asT
certninng the facts in relation to that army, ana
we may therefore take IL for granted that ms
statements are entirely consistent with the iacts
II At the same time there is no reason to suppose
that Cen Grant wilfully distorted the trnth in his
i report. The kindly expressions which he uses
towards the Confederate soldiers, and his graceful
I recognition Of their heroic deeds, are quite sufli-
\ cieut 10 relieve him from the suspicion Of unwil-
fIinsness to give credit to his. adversaries. Gen,
lGrant well knew that there was q great disparity
Il in force between his own army and that of Gen,
4 Lee but he may well be excused for not conceiv-
ing Of 50 great an inequality as that which Gen.
4 EARLY demonstrates to have existed. 81
1t would not have been reasonable for him to
act on the presumption that the tremendous bat
Ties Of the Wilderness and Spottsylsania Court
House and Cold Harbor were fought by force
4 scarcely one-third of his own. he had no access
to official Confederate documents, and he had no
4 ether means of estimating the strength of the
4 COME derates than by the energy with which they
contested his, advance, and the extraordinary
4 losses which they inflicted on his army. e {
If with these lights before him, and with these
4 alone he estimated the strength Of General Lec's
army at double its real number surely no higher
t,;h,,e cop,d r. ya;d M nm 81 tbe yaior aud hero
II 81, 81 HI ,,,,arsar;es
General Early says that at the beginning Of the
4 memorable campaign Of 1884, General Lee,sarmy
CONSISTED of two divisions of Longstreet's corps,
Ewell's corps. A. Hill corps, three divisions Of
cavalry and the artillery. Ewell's corps did not
exceed 1900. musketss at the beginning Of the
campaign. Hill corps, on the Sth of May, when
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