ten o'clock
Pope 's losses since Jackson first struck his advance guard at Culpeper Court House had been more than twenty thousand men and his army had been driven into Washington so utterly demoralized it was unfit for further service until reorganized under an abler man . For the moment the North was stunned by the blow . Deceived by Pope 's loud dispatches claiming victory for the first two days it was impossible to realize that his shattered and broken army was cowering and bleeding under the shadow of the Federal Capitol . Even on the night of August thirtieth , with his men lying exhausted at Centreville where they had dropped at ten o'clock when Lee 's army had mercifully halted , poor Pope continued to send his marvelous messages to the War Department . He reported to Halleck : `` The enemy is badly whipped , and we shall do well enough . Do not be uneasy . We will hold our own here .