Excerpt from Our Military Experience and What It Suggests
That the course of the war thus far has not been very flattering to our arms, must he admitted. A country of eight millions of white inhabitants, has, as yet successfully resisted the twenty millions of the Northern and Border States. Nothing is to be gained by deceiving ourselves in these matters. The skilful surgeon makes a careful examination of the wounded patient he would benefit, though the process be a painful one.
On several occasions our arms have met with decided and universally admitted reverses. Even when we have claimed victories, they have usually been of rather an equivocal kind. After Antietam, the enemy left Maryland as it were at his leisure, and not so much because we whipped him as because he failed to whip us, and it was necessary for him to have done this, if he wished to remain north of the Potomac. At Shiloh our troops were driven to their gunboats on the first day, and on the second, the enemy were driven back but a short distance by the fresh reinforcements under Buel. Perryville, despite newspaper exaggerations always read to us more like a defeat than a victory, and we cannot see that we had much cause to boast about Murfreesborough.
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