Courage is common, intelligence, real intelligence, is rare.

You were at Bull Run also, so I hear." "I was, and the army fought well there too, but late in the day it was seized with a sudden panic." "Something that may happen at any time to raw troops.

But we'll pass to the question in hand.

The campaign here in the mountains is ended for this winter, but great matters are afoot further west.

A courier arrived last night stating that General Grant and Commodore Foote were preparing to advance by water from Cairo, Illinois, and attempt the reduction of the Confederate forts on the Cumberland and Tennessee.