selfdeluded

Updated: May 12, 2025

At noon on the fatal thirtieth of August, Pope, selfdeluded and self-sufficient as before, dismayed his best officers by ordering his sixty-five thousand men to be "immediately thrown forward in pursuit of the enemy, "whose own fifty thousand were now far readier than on the previous day. Then the dense blue masses marched to their doom.

William Charles Henry Wood - Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray