Status Updates From Southern History of the War...

"The Northern newspapers with characteristic and persistent falsehood, pretended that the Leesburg affair was nothing, a mere reconnaissance in which the Federals accomplished their object, a skirmish in which they severely punished the rebels, an affair of outposts in which they lost a few men ..[But] in the Federal Congress it was named "most humiliating", "a great national calamity"

Sources? Newspapers, notes?

The unfortunate commander [C-inC Scott] experienced the deep humiliation of being adjuged incompetent by the North, whose cause he had unnaturally espoused, whose armies he had sent into the field as invaders of the land of his birth. The retribution was righteous. No penalties of fortune were too severe for a general who had directed an army to trample upon the graves of his sires & despoil the homes of his kindred.

The financial complications of Mr. Lincoln's government were in striking contrast with the abundant & easy means which the Southern Confederacy had at least so far been able to carry on the war. The latter had been reduced to a paper currency but it had for the basis the great staple of cotton [ 3.70 out of 4.68 milion bales, supplying 80% Of England's consumption]

Pollard does not give the value of this 1860 crop

"The mask was dropped"

It's all about spot the lost cause sentences