Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-07-18
EXCITING WAR NEWS,
FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE OCCUPIED,
INTERESTING PARTICULARS
THE FURTHER FORWARD MOVEMENT

Court House a Perfect Scamper Off No
body Left There The Secession Flag
Pulled Down, and tn Stars and Stripes
Raised instead Tyler Again on the
March in the Direction OF Centreyille,
&C., &C.,
Especial correspondence OF the Star
FAIRFAX c H, Va July l., 1s61-2H p. m -
! have barely time 70 drop you hurried note by
your messenger, who says he must leave for
" ash ngton IN quarter Of an hour. Col. Burn
sides Brigade was first TO enter this plsce--the
Rhode island n aine and Marston's New Hamp-
shire regiments-at about IL m. to-day. They
came up the Little River turnpike, and were de-
1ayed perhaps three hours In all by the obs;ruc-
lions Beauregard tad caused to be placed in the
road-pits, felIed trees, &c, sc. The most
formidable lOoki ny one Of them all was just op-
ppsi.e where Beau yard had had one Of his bat
teries-with embrasures for three guns Near 1t,
too. there was evidence, in unexfinguished camp
lres that a body Of about two humid red union
troops had passed last igbt there. At about s
o'clock this morning a signal gun heard on
our RI ght fred bv GsneT,.. Iyler's column. giving
notice of his occup ,tiun OF that be was about to
occupy Germantown. 80 General Mcdowell,
who with his staff WIS with Burnside's brigade
lof Cot Miles cOiumn) pushed ahead, and was
frs. tafer the advance guatdJ to enter this place,
the famous Fairfax Court House
We found the cessIon flag flying from the
venerable court house sieeplP nearly every white
OF Doth sexes evacuated, (gone,) aud the nests OF
B.auregard troops warm as to satisfy US that
they had been bounced out OF them In hurry not
more than two hours before zen Mcdowell TOOK
p session # the place. 1t is impoSs bic to tell
t,oin The number II bush tents, remains Of camp
.hres, and Of tent ,earth) floors, &c &c hclv
many Of Belure-ard's troops were here Yesterday
or last night as the mum Der has VIGOROUSLY varied
sometimes thNusa ds, almost daily FIR weeks
past M'st of our Information obtained on the
.u' jet has been from rontrabands, who d Her
widely, indeed. the point; some putting the
number that evacuated this ,rning at , GGU oaly,
while others put it as high 10000.
TheY certainly went CT in the greatest conceiv-
able hurry. on hearing Tyler's signal gun fred
from Germantown, or that immediate vicinity
4 nat informed them, Enthusiastically that their DC
Sition (at Fairfax Court Housed had been turned
--Outf ,nked-on their left; and that they must
therefore ght fearful odds surrender or run ike
quarter horses
They preferred the latter alternative and &C
cordingly started in so great a hurry as to leave
behind them a considerable quantity Of their hos
pital Observation-Disclosures, lint. &c eight or ten
t-nts. two three bales of blankets. and numer-
Z y
in tue original packages Their retreat is aseer.
tained to have been in the direction Of Manassas
via Centerviile, where they had, If they nave not
evsn yet, strongly fortified entertainments
Among the 1rst acts OF our troops on entering
the village, was TO take down the secession flag
on the venerable Court House, (where George
Nashin 2tOn so Cften stood when attending court,
al this his county seatl and to replace II with
the ever glorious SsaTs and Stripes
30 Tar, have seen but two " hite men here so
universal was the stampede this morning. Noth-
lrg has occurred TO mar the completeness of the
srcctss of the movement
From Col. Heintzleman's line have lust heard
that he occupied Fairfax ~ .tio. ak miles south
Of the Court House, as early as 6 D IN last night.
with Col WIlcOxs Michigan regiment and per-
maps the rest II col w 5 brigade lie FOUND that
tie enemy lately there had abandoned their en-.
telchHents, though i; Is not known precisely
wien they did so as Tia cir camp fires were ext!n.
Euisned when he reached there. Wi,coy's com
Tuand ssei a pheasant night in the entiencL.
mems. precisely where thu en-ny had been
C-mping for some weeks Previously
4 portion Of H-inlz .eman's command advanced
still further forward SOME two or ,ar+, miles
Gear. along the Orange and Alexandra railroad
probably To SdngstrSs station-a Jout half way on
to l. Hion Mills from Fairfax station The fac
thai his troops were thus advanced has given rise
! 10 report here that be pushed on directly fol
Manassas Junction, which cannot be true
"!y Impression Is tnat Que Of bis b-i9ades or q
portion of one Of them, dc directly from Alex
| aHdria for Wolf ruu shoals about seven mile:
ao'S, Occo4nani very important position, #
/ may turn out in tie cOnlem plated operation,
| -SlEst BeaureEird a. Manassas
lie seems to be detstOUd that Tyier-s column
| and most OF Hunters, are by this time on TIE
| rad between Germantoyn aud CentreviIIe II
| 8, By p n think the eneuy's entIeachment.
| there lat CeEtTevIIlr) will have been turned. 2,
Tue cOu"try to the north OF theTn for some N
! IS asibie one for military operations II
! Tyler and HuEter can get past them Ola tie rig 1T
/ tie Snerny must leave them In double quick
tine as promptly as they left the works SO Iabo
| iously made for the defen, of theiy position,
htfo-at alriLx Court House-faii rg bat upon
their entrencted camps at Manassas Junction.
| | do not believe that Beauregard Will dare L.
make stand at the Junction! ID is not as defen.
siole position in itself this place was; as II
CentreVille can be turned, Gen. Mcdowell NAV
turn that also, either on the right (nortb) or left
| (south For mile and half east Of II the
| country is comparatively open and level I'm AL
! directions; ard 10 tie north, especially for p
greater distance. Centreviiie once outB,nked
| t'uTaed) there can be nothing TO prevent Gen
Mcdowell, 1t seems 10 me, from getting in the
rear of Manassas Junction by way ofthe Fairfax
"aFfenton Turnpike; breaking up tue Manassas
Railroad IT Gainesville, by tie way. Gaine,-
vile Is, perhaps, seven miles north Of Manassas
Junction
FROM tn1t point to the Orange and AleSand,,a
! Railroad In the rear Of Manassas Junction tho
way Is well nigh as open as Pennsylvania avenue
make no Pretensions to knowledge OF the MI, n
OK Ten. McDOweil's operations and am in these
suggestions but writing from my knowledge OF
the country.
we expect to advance from this poi Mt in q few
hours-in wha; direction precisely DO no, feel y,
liberty to state
GENERAL Mcdowell had some Of the brush bu,s
OF bednre2ard's men (about this place. burned
NO damage TO any one was done in burnInv them
or, as lar as can learn, In any other WAY 70 tbIs
place, by our occupation Of H.
more We learn by our express nesseDoa,
t"ho returned via Vienns) that rs be left the vii
lage (Fairfix Court Hoose), shortly after 3 m
L. saw four buildings in the immediate v,cjni,,,
nna IF