The parties with whom they effected their exchanges would be found pretty well informed concerning the latest news.

By this irregular system of couriers, the Secessionists maintained a complete communication with each other.

All along the route, I found they knew pretty well what had transpired, though their news was generally mixed up with much falsehood.
Even in those early days, there was a magnificence in the Rebel capacity for lying.

Before the war, the Northern States produced by far the greatest number of inventions, as the records of the Patent Office will show.

During the late Rebellion, the brains of the Southern States were wonderfully fertile in the manufacture of falsehood.