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Matters are not going well with the army, Berkley." "Whipped ?" His lips barely formed the question.
Colonel Arran's careworn features flushed.
"The army has been withdrawing from the Peninsula.

It is the commander-in-chief who has been defeated--not the Army of the Potomac." "Back ?" "Yes, certainly we shall go back.

This rebellion seems to be taking more time to extinguish than the people and the national authorities supposed it would require.

But no man must doubt our ultimate success.