Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-04

pcc,ant forces. Where are the rebeIs? What
are they aboutf" were the wondering queries
They were soon to be answered. and current ex
pe.tation that the traitor chiefs would not await
the rapid concentration Of our new levies at
Washington not 70 be disappointed
y. Early on Sunday morning. August 2ith.
stonewan jackson, With some thirty or forty
thousand trusted veterans In the lightest march
ing order, without tents or wagons, save for am
muni,ion, left the lines -oatli of the R.ppskaa-
mock and moved westward. unknown to and un
Suspected BY Pope Winding his way among the
s0ufcesrof the Rappahannock in the Blue Ridge.
by roads unknown 10 side. he turned tie right
flank OF our army, and. emerging unperceivei at
ThOrougbisre Gap. about halt way between Ma
nassas Junction and Front Royal. his advance.
consisting OF Stuarts cavalry, sw0Oped down
upon our depot OF provisions. clothing, stores.
&c, ut Manassas, like hawk among brood ct
chickens The small force guarding that point
was soon dispersed captured. and our heavy
stores we're appropriated 80 far as possible and
the rest destroyed. Railroad trains conveying
provisions and munitions 90 Pope and bringing
bIck wounded sick, empty cars, &c. were cap
tnred and destroyed. those in charge OF them
running into the jaws of the wolf while unsus-
pecting any danger.
10 The capture OF the Junction was soon
knosn in Washington. and the lst New Jersey
brigade under Gen Taylor sent down To rectify
matters-no one suspecting that there any
thing more serious than another cavalry dash at
our lines of communication But by this time a
considerable force of rebel infantry and artillery
had come up, aud Gen. Taylors brigade and
trimmings were sent to the right about with little
ceremony, and with loss of several hundred
prisoners. who were piroled 50 soon as possible
And still the JUNCTION, hardly thirty miles from
Washington, and nearly sd far in the rear oil
Gen Pope, was firmly hello by the rebels. who
challenged all corners
IL Thus far, Gen Pope would seem TO have
been completely circumvented. Ii was nearly
Wednesday morning before he knew word OF
the nice business going on in his rear. When he
did learn II, he appears to have acted with Judg
ment and decision of which our army move
ments hitherto have evinced plentiful lack
Instead OF sending back brigade to reopen his
communica cations he at once OWNED that this
no mere cavalry raid on his stores, but daring
if not desperate attempt To Isolate him and fall
with crushing weight on some part of our forces
preliminary TO bold push upon Washington or
Baltimore SO he promptly faced about and
started from Warrenton and its vicinity with his
whole force-now swelled by reinlorccments TO
some sixty or seventy Observation-Disclosures 10
know what all this meant. He marched in three
columns by parallel roads. His central column
under Hooker Pore himself with it) first
countered rebel force that afternoon at Kettle
Run. q few miles below Manassas and pushed it
back killing hlld wounding three hundred OF them
Pushing on to Manassas next morning Thurs
day), Pope found that place had been evacuated
three hours before by Stonewall jackson, who
had moved to Centreville, (north), and thence
westward up Bull Run-doubtless to avoid con
flict with superior forces, and form speeder
junction with th, rem Under OF the rebel army
which was more slowly following on his devious
wav from the South side of the Rappahannock
Mcdowell and Sigel's corps followed and over
took him. and fisht ensued with general adj
vantage To our side, which was only terminated
by darkness Jackson held his ground with Dies
perate tenaeity knowing that "A disorderly retreat
was destruction, while tie bulk of General Lees
army must be coming rapidly to his rescue We
took 900 prisoners.
II Friday morning, Gen. Pope concentrated
his forces and pushed on after Jackson who by
this time had been heavily reinforced by the rebel
main army. A desperate battle ensued, partly on
the Bull Run battle ground OF last year. our
troops this time approaching it from the South
Tae Unionsts had the best oil it, holding the bat
tie ground nj dark though with loss OF 5000
killed and wounded. General Pope estimates the
rebel loss IA twice that number. We were the
ASSISTANTS throughout.
-. The next morning Saturday, the positions
were reversed The rebel grand army-estiria
ted at two hundred Thousand in all-had now
nearly or quite all come up, and they, being much
the stronger party, assumed the offensive They
gained ground upon during tie day. At night
General Pope's headquarters were at Centervie,
to which strong position his whole army had fal
len back in good order. and where he had just
been Joined by Franklin corps, while Summers
was well on the to him. These are among
the best portions OF the late Army of the PENN
sala The two parties had gradually swung
round during these terrible conflicts, So that
army is once more in communication with Wash
ngton. while the rebels probably hold the posi-
tions west aud south of Bull Run. Pope unqueS-
tionably is in a position of such streLgth that he
can defy the enemy till he is reinforced that he
can again assume the offensive, while, in the
meantime, he is already SO strong that they will
not venture To leave him IN in their rear for any
advance towards the Northern Potomac.