Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-23
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TO THE WORCESTER DAILY SPY.
Gen. POpe's Army Ise:reating from the
RaDidam,

hapIdam.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF VIRGINIA, CEDAR
MOUNTAIN, Aug. Is, lS62,-Again on the
march, and that march a retreat. A hurried
order came to be ready to start at once, and
before two hours had passed tents and lug
gage-all of headquarters but its personnel
were moving TO the rear. 1t is whispered that
the whole army of Virginia is in retreat and
presently it begins to be added that the whole
army of Richmond is on the advance; that
the rebels threaten to turn our left hank-in
a word, are marching straight for Fredericks-
burg, for Washington, for the north. Per-
haps; but before the north, before Washing
ton, before Fredericksburg is reached, the
hardest, fierceSt, most determined and des-
perate battles of the war are to be fought.
This army is not running away, nor is Gen.
Pope outgeneraled yet by Stonewall jackson.
CULPEPPER Court HOUSE, Aug. 1876 p.
M.-Gen. Pope retained his headquarters at
Cedar Mountain till midnight; then mounted
with his staff, and rode to Culpepper, reach
ing it at 2. Not an inch of road that was not
filled with wagons-most of them hating.
The retreat of our army, and the advance of
the rebels in overwhelming force, are no lon
ger secrets. Besides the reports of scouts
and reconnoissances, we have the evidence of
an officer who was in Richmond only last Fri
day, and his evidence is that in Richmond
there are only three thousand troops; that the
whole rebel force, from one hundred and fifty
to one hundred and seventy-five thousand
strong, is marching on Washington, is within
twenty miles or less of Gen. Pope, and hopes
to flank and destroy his army. Long before
this can be read at the north it will be known
in every village that Washington is again
threatened by the advance of rebel army,
md hot itS fnta 10 NfI
Mcclellan has sent forward his troops for
once rapidly; if the north has sent them, if
they meet us on the Rappahannock, if we can
gather three-fourths OF the rebel strength,
then safety and victory. But if not!
Arriving at Culpepper Gen. Pope found its
streets crowded worse than the roads. and al
most the whole transportation of the army
in danger of being checked and delayed until
it could only be saved by fire. The first trou-
BILE was in front. Riding out he started the
leading trains, started every one as he return
ed, ordered all hesitating or injured wagons
into the fields, cleared the whole road, and re-
turned to town. Taking his station on the
Court House corner, where the trains were to
divide, he spent the rest Of the night with his
staff, bringing order out Of confusion, urging
forward every train, addressing drivers, wag
on-masters, quarter masters, and every one
else with certain discretion of force of
speech which nobody could mistake or DISC
hey. By six o'clock nearly all the immense
trains of the army were through the town.
1t was expected that the army would cross
the Rappahannock by 10 o'clock, but the pas
sage of the trains was SO much delayed that it
will not be attempted. The corps Of Banks
is here, and Mcdowell is coming up. Both
will wait the arrival of Sigel, who covers the
retreat and will not be hurried As | write.