The Great Locomotive Chase; a History of the Andrews Railroad Raid Into Georgia in 1862
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Leadbetter. to mislead him if I could, for his estimates were singularly correct. So I said, that this must refer only to the first division of Mitchel's force, and did not take into account the troops that were ready to come to him by rail from Nashville and the North. He said this was perfectly true, and wanted to know how large this reserve was. I told him that in a month Mitchel would have in all over sixty thousand men ! He asked what would be done with such an army ? I told him that of co...urse we did not know, but that the general opinion was that Mitchel would soon take Chattanooga, then Atlanta, and that there was no force that could stop 214 Daring and Suffering. him till he had reached the sea and cut the Confederacy in halves ! Lead- better seemed profoundly impressed; said that he had no idea that Mitchel had so many men at his disposal. (Had the Federal Government given Mitchel such an army for such a purpose from Halleck's and McClellan's surplus, how different would have been the story of the war !) I do not know whether this misinformation had anything to do with the disgraceful manner in which Leadbetter ran away from Mitchel at Bridgeport two weeks afterwards !
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