Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-03-25


vile lounge listlessIy in shady. places.
The First Corps IS resting, and wei j.
may for there IS work ahead.
To the east SIX miles is the Second
Corps under Banks a few miles farther
ricketts, holds the bridge at Waterloo /:
at Manassas. still farther on. IS AlcDoWeAl
with part Of the Third Corps. one DIvIs-
| ion being with King at Falmouth at
/ Madison Court House, twenty mlles
south. Buford with his cavalry, joined BY
Bayard on the left, watches the line OF
the Rapidan, and these enumerated
I forces constitute the army OF Pope IN
all arms 1900 strong.
The Army of the Potomac, having &C
eOmplish I'd its perilous retreat from
Mechanicsville, having administered TO
the pursuing rebels the bloody repulse
of Malvern and then on the heels OF
| victory executed an unnecessary and
| shameful retreat, IS now bottled up" al
| Harrison's Landing. The ION to Rich
nond by the peninsular route has been
a succession of blundeTs, defeats, fail
ures, and a SORT of paralysis PerVades
| the Federal forces IN Virginia. To IN
/ fuse life and activity into their operations
It has been decided to give them the
benefit of some of that energetic leader
ship which has characterized the Army
of the West. Major General John Pope
having won prestige at New Madrid anc
Island Number Ten, has been appointed
to gather up the hagmentary forces II
Northern Virginia and organize them In
to an efficient column for offensive-de
fensive movements before Washington
| The especial mission of this army, a.
stated by its Commander, is to be,
ITO cover, as far as possible, the front o
/ Washington, and make secure the Valley
! of the Shenandoah, and so to operate upoI
/ the enemy's lines of communication 70 tns
/ west and northwest as to force him 70 mak'
such heavy detachments from his mlalT
force at Richmond as would enable tns
I Amy OF the Potomac to Withdrew from IL
! DositiOn At Harrison's Landing, and to take
| shipping for Acquia Greek or for AlezRn
drias and II, as Is feared, the enemy shaI
Washington, to resist his advance at al
hazards and SO delay and embaFrass hi
movement as to gain all the time possible
for the arrival of the Army Of the PotOma'
behind the Rappahannock-"
The Rappahannock, then, is to be the
base for the new movement on Rich
/ mond, and this little army IS to hold the
line of that river against the entire force
of Lee and Jackson until the Army o.
the Potomac, moving as the weather
permits, shall come to its relief. Thi.
| latter movement, it is believed, canno
occupy more than two weeks, and Ger
tainly Pope's 1900 ought to hold bacl
Lees 200, 600 (McClellan's estimate), fol
the short space of two weeks
So it has been determined by Genera
Pope, now in Washington, that his A.,
600 shall march out from its summel
cantonments and intercept the 2oo.ooc
and, shall we say, chastise them for theil
impudent attempt to take advantage o
the absence or disability" of the Army
of the Potomac. The tystng place j:
to be the country lying between the con
junction of the Rappahannock and tht
I Rapidan, whittier the different columns
{ from SigeI at Sperryville, Mcdowell a
Manassas to King at Falmouth, are sooI
to be set in motion.