I've heard about the Goths and Vandals coming down on Rome and it must have been something like it.

They ate as I never saw anybody eat before, and then throwing away their rags they put on our new uniforms which were stored there in thousands.

At least half the rebel army must now be wearing the Union blue.

And the way they danced about and sang was enough to make a loyal man's heart sick." "You told all this to General Pope ?" "I did, sir, but I could not make him believe the half of it.

He insists that it can only be a raiding detachment, that it is impossible for a great army to have come to such a place.