. Young folk's history of the war for the union . than showhis own since he tookcommand of them. General Pope, at hisown request, was sentback to the West, and theArmy of Virginia wasunited with the Army ofthe Potomac. During hisshort but disastrous cam-paign General Pope hadlost about thirty thousand men, while the Confederate loss hadnot been more than half as many. General Lee claimed thathe had taken nine thousand prisoners, thirty pieces of ai-tillery,and about twenty thousand stand of arms. General Popeasserted that his failure was due to want of help from Wash-ington and especially to t
. Young folk's history of the war for the union . than showhis own since he tookcommand of them. General Pope, at hisown request, was sentback to the West, and theArmy of Virginia wasunited with the Army ofthe Potomac. During hisshort but disastrous cam-paign General Pope hadlost about thirty thousand men, while the Confederate loss hadnot been more than half as many. General Lee claimed thathe had taken nine thousand prisoners, thirty pieces of ai-tillery,and about twenty thousand stand of arms. General Popeasserted that his failure was due to want of help from Wash-ington and especially to the conduct of General Fitz JohnPorter, who, he said, from unnecessary and unusual delays,and frequent and flagrant disregard for my orders, took no partwhatever, except in the battle of the 30th of August. Popeafterward made charges against Porter, who was tried by acourt-martial, and in January, 1863, that officer was dismissedfrom the service and forever disqualified from holding anyoffice of trust or profit under the Government of the United. Fitz John Porter. 1862.] LEE IN MARYLAND. 277 States. General Porters friends denied the justice of this,and claimed that he was made a sacrifice to satisfy the politi-cians at Washington. This would seem to be true, for in 1880a new investigation was made of the charges against him, andthey were proven to be false. General Lees campaign had been thus far very three months had j^assed since he took command of thearmy for the defence of Kichmond, then menaced by a forceconsiderably larger than his own. Yet in that short time thepositions of the two armies had been completely reversed:instead of Eichmond being menaced, it was now Washington,and the great force which had threatened the Confederate capi-tal was on the defensive behind its earthworks. More thanthat—another army, scarcely inferior to his own in numbers,had been driven back from position to position until its disor-ganized masses had been merged with the Army
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