"I've already been speaking to Captain Sherburne and I'll tell you now what I want.

General McClellan's army is still beyond the Potomac.

As nearly as our spies can estimate it has, present and fit for duty, one hundred and thirty-five thousand men and three hundred and fifty cannon.

McClellan, as we well know, is always overcautious and overestimates our numbers, but public opinion in the North will force him to action.

They claim there that Antietam was a victory for them, and he will surely invade Virginia again.