JULY 27, 1862:
Robert
E. Lee sends 48,000 more troops to Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley.
Lee is outraged at Union General John Pope’s recent spate of abusive Field
Orders and writes to Jackson:
“I want
Pope to be suppressed. The course indicated in his orders, if the newspapers
report them correctly, cannot be permitted and will lead to retaliation on our
part. You had better notify him the first opportunity.”
This sort of behavior and rhetoric from Pope leads General
Lee to label him a “miscreant.”
Pope had a habit of concluding dispatches
saying that his “headquarters are in the saddle.” Wits in response said that his headquarters
were where his hindquarters ought to be.
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