Besides, we've already taken New Orleans, the biggest city of the South, and our fleet is coming up the river to meet us.

Yet in the East we don't seem to make any progress at all.

We lose great battles there and Fredericksburg they say was just a slaughter of our men.

How do you make it out, Dick ?" "I've thought of several reasons for it.

Our generals in the West are better than our generals in the East, or their generals in the East are better than their generals in the West.