Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-05
,w INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF
THRILLING EVENTS.
POE's REMARKABLE ADDRESS
Jackson TO the Front-Position of
Troops Observation-Disclosures Alb
.cnec vnfortunate-Fede Rrig-
zdes Swept Away by Counter
Stroke.

Tho annexed description OF tile 1eud'
Yum hattie and the events leading up to
q Is taken from the Confederate Military
-7fe.ory." which was edited by General
Element A. Evans, OF Georgia.
Tho conditions and the scene of conflict
a. Virginia now changed. Mcclellan,
whining like wel-whipped schoolboy,
and in so doing damaging his military
reputation. begged for reinforcements and
for permission. when reinforced, to make
another attempt on Richmond. But the
FEDERAL Government. alarmed at the re-
sr,lt of its gigantic effort to capture
Richmond, now feared, and justly, that
Lees victorious army might take>up the
line of march to menace its own capt.
tai; SO instead Of reinforcing Mcclellan
and permitting him to try again an IA
TO Richmond,' it ordered him back to the
line Of the Potomac and 10 the front Of
Washington.
When it was learned that the ubiqui-
tous jackson was really engaged in the
contest with Mcclellan at Richmond, the
army that had been waiting for him in
Me Valley finding none TO oppose, it ven
aured to cross the Blue Ridge at Chester
San and encamp in the lovely groves OF
Piedmont, Va, just under and amid the
spurs of the grand mountains in the VI
cinity of Sperryville, where, on June 18th,
with the roar OF booming cannon, the
echoes of which were heard as far away
ms Gordonsville, was organized from the
armies of Fremont, Banks, and Mellow
ell the Army of Virginia. under Major
General John Pope. Its three corps OF
row well-rested veterans were prepared
fer another campaign-to essay another
"s,, 70 Richmond from another direc-
:iOu The 1900 men under burnside II
North Carolina were fastened to the 20
tomac end Of the Richmond, ffederlcks-
burg and Potomac railroad at Aqua creek
"a Eusrd the left of the new movements,
ma rreparations We're fastened TO bring
hack the great host still on the James
with Mcclellan and add that to the new
army of Virginia.
Excellent highways led from the Kappa
hammock region. whore Pope was en-
canped. TO Cordonsvilie and Culpeper'
and the march was not q long one 10
either Of these places. A blow at Cor
louisville would break Lees line OF ran
wey communication with his best base
ef suDplies in the great Valley, and II
was rightly concluded that if that blow
were struck Lee would meet 1t win 4
norton OF his army, and thus give NC
Clzlan opportunity to escape.
GENERAL POPE'S REMARKABLE AID
DRESS.
Frll of ambition to accomplish what MS
predecessors had failed to do and equally
fgll Of himself and hoping to infuse some
Of the same spirit into the men whom
jackson had so lately roughly handles
Ru discounted, Pope Joined his army near
EperryzilIe. and on July 18th issued very
remarkable address, in which he saii'
among other things:
az have come to join you from inc
West where we have always seen thl
lacks Of our enemies; from an army
whose business it has been TO seek inc
adversary and beat him when found
whose policy has been attack. not de-
fence desire You TO dismiss
from your minds certain phra ses winch
an sorry to find in vogue among you
OF lines of retreat and bases of supplies
Let us dismiss such ideas. The strong
est position q soldier should desire to
Occupy is one from which he can most
easily advance toward the enemy. Ley
us study the possible lines of retreat OF
OUT oDnoncnts and leave our own 10 tahc
care of themselves. Let US look before
Us and not behind. Success and glory
are in the advance. Disaster and shame
Turk in the rear
After this bombastic illumination Pope
Immediately proceeded to wage unsoldler-
ly war upon the peaceahle citizens of the
surrounding country, and disaster 10
these citizens followed every movement
OF his army Under pain Of expulsion
from their homes he ordered that every
male citizen of the region dominated by