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Reflections on the times.conduct of the war. [written for a forthcoming number of Depew's Review] The New York Evening Post, the some very harsh comments on the conduct of the Federal officers in crossing the Potomac with a small body of troops near Leesburg lately remarked, that the greatest blunder an officer could make was "sleave an impassable river behind him with an enemy in superior force before him." Not heeding the lessons we tried to teach the Yankees at Bethel, at Manassas, and the other day, at Leesburg, though less people among us are continually complaining that our armies do not follow the fatal examples set by the North, and rush headlong into positions where they would have to encounter superior force, strong fortifications, and natural advantages of situation. Tis the mob of the North, and its mouthpiece, the press of the North, that has urged on their armies to certain defeat.-- This mob rules despotically among our enemies. Shall we install it in su