Identifier: campfirecottonfi00knox (find matches)
Title: Camp-fire and cotton-field: southern adventure in time of war. Life with the Union armies, and residence on a Louisiana plantation
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
Subjects: Cotton growing -- Louisiana United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives Missouri -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Mississippi River Valley -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York, Blelock and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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h applause for his success. The reputation of this officer, on the score of veracity, has not been of the highest character. After he assumed command in Virginia, his Order Number Five drew upon him much ridicule. Probably the story of the capture of ten thousand prisoners, after the occupation of Corinth, has injured him more than all other exaggerations combined. The paternity of that choice bit of romance belongs to General Halleck, instead of General Pope. Colonel Elliott, who commanded the cavalry expedition, which General Pope sent out when Corinth was occupied, forwarded a dispatch to Pope, something like the following:— I am still pursuing the enemy. The woods are full of stragglers. Some of my officers estimate their number as high as ten thousand. Many have already come into my lines. Pope sent this dispatch, without alteration, to General Halleck. From the latter it went to the country that General Pope reported ten thousand prisoners captured below Corinth. It served to cover up the
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