The whole force, some twenty-eight hundred, was surrendered, with all its arms and munitions of war.

General Pope reported his captures somewhat larger than they really were, and received much applause for his success.
The reputation of this officer, on the score of veracity, has not been of the highest character.

After he assumed command in Virginia, his "Order Number Five" drew upon him much ridicule.

Probably the story of the capture of ten thousand prisoners, after the occupation of Corinth, has injured him more than all other exaggerations combined.
The paternity of that choice bit of romance belongs to General Halleck, instead of General Pope.

Colonel Elliott, who commanded the cavalry expedition, which General Pope sent out when Corinth was occupied, forwarded a dispatch to Pope, something like the following:-- "I am still pursuing the enemy.