APPENDIX. f / 105 for die seizure- aud removal to the South of General Scott, lie was excessively disgusted at his inability to accomplish an organization for either purpose. President Davis, who detests Mr. Floyd, seized upon bis conduct at the surrender of Fort Donelson as a good occasion for disgracing him, and ordered him into arrest. He remained for some time at his home in Western Virginia, his particular organ, the “Richmond Examiner,” meanwhile grinding forth, almost daily, imprecations upon the confederate government for its neglect of the “ great soldier who had kept Rosecrans chained to the Gauley,” and the “great statesman who had first warned the South to expect nothing from false and selfish England.” The Legislature of the State was finally dragooned into providing for him. Authority was given him through the Governor, to raise ten thousand men, and lie was commissioned a Major-General of Virginia. Whether he ever raised the men or not, I do not know. He had not done so three months ago. I mention these circumstances, because I observe that the “Richmond Examiner” is constantly quoted at the North, as the representative of southern sentiment in general, whereas it is a fact notorious in Richmond, and indeed self-evident to any person whose unfortunate destiny has ever put him in the way of a prolonged familiarity with southern journalism, that the “Examiner” is simply the mouth-piece of Mr. Floyd’s disappointed ambitions, political, military and diplomatic. Bote C.—Page 27. THE EVACUATION OF MANASSAS. I have reason to believe that when the history of the present war shall come to be written fairly and in full, it will be found that General Johnston never intended to hold Manassas and Centreville against any serious attack; that his army at
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