Jackson] V.
LEE FOLLOWS.
The contest of generalship had now fully begun, and the brain of General Lee was matched against the brain of General Pope.

It is no part of the design of the writer of this volume to exalt unduly the reputation of Lee, and detract from the credit due his adversaries.
Justice has been sought to be done to General McClellan; the same measure of justice will be dealt out to his successors on the Federal side; nor is it calculated to elevate the fame of Lee, to show that his opponents were incapable and inefficient.

Of General Pope, however, it must be said that he suffered himself to be outgeneralled in every particular; and the pithy comment of General Lee, that he "did not appear to be aware of his situation," sums up the whole subject.
It is beyond our purpose to enter upon any thing resembling a detailed narrative of the confused and complicated movements of the various corps of the army under General Pope.

These have been the subject of the severest criticism by his own followers.

We shall simply notice the naked events.