New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-13
A Glance a, the Grand Army Of the Po-
tomac and It's CommGnaer-Wiii he
Move, and will Ia Wint
From An Occssional Correspondent.

From An Occasional Correspondent
WssHIsGTos. March :. 1862.
sit in an upper room at WIllards, overlooking
the Potomac. Arlington House the ancient home OF
Custs, the step-son Of Washington, CLEANS on the
western horizon. When the war broke out, 1t was
the residence Of Lee now q Rebel general. Long
the Headquarters Of Mcdowell, lie went out thelce
TO attack Manassas. OF him, history will ray, He
was d loyal man. brave soldier, and he dared 10
tryW Below me lies Alexandria. where young
Ellsworth, first martyr Of the rebellion, fell. With
my glass, zee the Msrshall House, from whose
roof he tore the traitor ensign, 30 soon to he Grim
soned with his hearts blood The flag OF the Union
now waves over i'll And yonder, toward the setting
sum- and 10 the right of Arlington House, is Fort
Corcoran, whose lrowning embank ments, piled so
high, and commanding Georgetown, and sweeping
the country far back from the river, are proud
monument 10 the patriotism Of the Fifth Avenue and
the Sixth Ward. Who will ever forget that hot
MAY Sunday, when the sons Of those famous locali-
ties representing the 9Th and the G9tb We'd with
another in the use Of the spade aud wheebaTow
And all along, from Fort Corcorsn downward 10 Fort
Ellsworth, and even above and below these land
marks the beautifully swelling banks Of the Poto-
mac are crowned for many miles with intrench-
!
three deep bif,ling with cannon, and swsrning
with soldiery rendering the crossing Of the Potomac
by foe aud the capture Of Washington military
impos.ibildy
Near at hand, and seeming TO peep into my
room, is the unfinished shaft Of the Washington
Monument looking as if il were broken column,
emblema'ic of death, standing as head-stoDe AT
the grave of TIE American Union. But the clarion
note of victory cries "REsURGAnF Just 20 the left
of the Monument is the site Of the famous old slave
pen where, in wears not remote and in plain view Of
the Capitol human beings were bougbt and sold NJ
freely aud ar thoughtessly az Gen. Meigs now uaf-
fics in mules aud horses. What ia left Of the dingy
building il used for storing wsrlike munitions and
supplies And thus retribuiive justice asserts it,
laws!
The Long Bridge. dmly visible, aud looking in tie
distance like black line across the water, ia white
with The canvas of that interminsble procession Of
commissary wagons, which, from time 10 time, for
the past nine months. | have vending is weary
way across the Potomac, and mp ito western deciv-
tiles or winding through the avenues Of the city, and
thence away off TO Georgetown and. the Chain
Bridge, conveying all sorts Of supplies TO one Grand
, Army. A. the line rumbles under my window and
aisturbs the flow Of my ink, have a mind To go
do WI and ask some of the mules whose twinklng
ey. 8 and pickering ears give token that they know
sons ,thing-I am sure these are the very mules
saw dragging the same wagons last Iune-whether
they c,n tell any better than the Mnor-'enoFsi
Comma nding why the bleds Of III army DO nj move
az well as the quadrupeds.
But a'as speaking Of the Long Bridge. Never
shall forget the exultation with Which crested i,
on that July Sunday afternoon, after steniog to the
booming cam ION all the morning, and creditirg tie
news that we had won the field at Manassas. Nor
shall ever cease TO remember the modification with
which, after seAlming the tide Of fugi,yes all that
disastrous night, recrossed II on that gloomy Mon
day morning whiah saw tho debris of our panic.
stricken army return to Washington. And more
luniliaing than evan this unnecessary and easily
explained ret eat for it was not defeat is the
fact that ike gaunt skeleton, its memory laaever
since stood in our path, aGording to The Rebels Ut
Manassas q thousand-fold more protection than all
their intrepcbments and batteries. On that some
soch would crow and drive this gbos,, this mere