without any encouragement from hill, he was being regularly written about by a former aide, john m. daniel. wounded, daniel had left the army and was now the editor of the "richmond examiner", a three-cent newspaper popular with confederate soldiers. soon, daniel was making hill out to be lee's top general to the exclusion of other generals. this did not sit well with lieutenant general james longstreet, as hill's commanding officer. the final straw came in the july 2 edition of "the examiner". daniel wrote that hill had taken command of all of longstreet's forces when longstreet was absent from the battle for a period of time. longstreet was angered at this and saw it as a lie. longstreet decided to write his own article refuting daniel's claims about hill at the battle. in a rival newspaper, the "richmond whig", longstreet directed major moxley sorrel to submit a public response under sorrel's own name. this started a very public feud between the two generals. lee became aware of the feud but decided not to do anything about it.