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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 6.34 (search)
ing his wounded and more than 250 dead on the field. [Later]--The total number of prisoners, according to General Hill's report, is 700. R. E. Lee, General. A discrepancy of statement which I leave to be reconciled by those better equipped for the task than I am, simply remarking that a perusal of the war dispatches of General Grant and General Sheridan often recalls to one that witty saying of Sidney Smith: Nothing is so deceptive as figures, except — facts. On the same day, General Fields, north of the James, captured seven stands of colors and above 400 prisoners, Lee's official dispatch, October 27th, 1864. and when it leaked out in the New York papers, as it gradually did, that this was no mere advance for the purpose of reconnoissance, as stated by Mr. Stanton in his bulletin, but a grand blow for the capture of Petersburg, which had been promptly parried with a loss to the Federals of above 3,000 men, who shall wonder that for the time the bulls, and not the bulle