The National tribune., 1907-11-07

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etteville, Banks was to extend the lin
from Bealeton to creek near the river
and. finally, Reno was to hold Kelly
Ford.
This line. however. was not forme
as ordered. Reno. by some mistake
| fell back TO Warrenton Junction. an
! Gen. Roberts, of Popes Staff, who wa
a mischief-maker of the first order
gave Il verbal order To Sigel to hold hi
position at Waterloo Bridge at all haz
ards. Roberts was mainly responsible
for the useless battle at Cedar Noun
tain by his statement to Banks tina
| Pope expected him to fight a battle
which was directly contrary to Pope
plans and wishes At last Sigel re
ceived direct command from Pope t,
fall back to Warrenton instead of Fay
| etteville. which Sigel did after settin.
fire to Waterloo Bridge
On The night of the 25th Cen Heint
zelman arrived with Hookers ant
kearny's Divisions Of the Third Corps
numbering about 500 men. They had
however, come by rail from Alexandria
and were without wagons horses ra
tions or ammunition. On the same nigh
FftZ-John Porter had Morel's Division
at kelly's Ford and Sykess Division a
Realeton Station. They numbered some.
thing less than 5000 men, but Piatt'.
raising its strength to 10000 These
different forces. numbering altogether
but $4,000 men, were all the reinforce
ments Pope received from the 90,00t
men of the Army of the Potomac before
the second battle of Bull Run.
Jnckson's March.
Gen. w b. Taliaferro, C. S. A.. il
Battles and Leaders" gives this ac.
count of JacksOns success in reachine
Manassas Junction:
"On the morning of Aug 25, 1862
Stonewall Jackson, with Ewelis and \
=. Hills Divisions and his own old divi-
sion under my command, marched
northward from Jeffersonton, Va, to cEt
Pope'S communications ana destroy his
supplies. Quartermastcrs and Commits
saries, with their forage and subsistence
stores, We're left behind, their white tilt.
ed wagons parked conspicuously. The
impGdimenta which usually embarrass
and delay a marching column had been
reduced to a few ambulances and "A
limited ordnance train; three days
meager ratiOns had been cooked and
slowed away in haversacks and pockets.
and tin cans and an occasional frying
pan constituted the entire camp equip
age. The men had rested and dried off
and as they marched out they exulted
with the inspiration of the balmy Sum-
mer atmosphere and the refreshing
breeZes which swept down from the
Blue Mountains.
NO man save one in that corps,
whatever may have been his rank, knew
our destination. The men said of Jack
son that his piety expressed itself in
obeying the injunction, Let not thy LETT
hand know what thy right hand doeth.'
No intelligence of intended Confederate
movements ever reached the enemy by
any slip of his. The orders TO the divi-
sion chiefs were like this: March to a
crossroad; a staff officer there will in
form you which fork to take; and SO
to the next fork, where you will find a
courier with a sealed direction pointing
out the road
This extreme reticence was very un-
and annoying to his subor-
dinate commanders, and was some-
times carried too far: but 1T was the
real secret of the reputation for ubiqui-
ty which he acquired. and which was
so well expressed by Gen. Mcclellan in
one of his dispatches, I am afraid of
Jackson; he will turn up where least
Naturally our destination was SUP
posed to be Waterloo Bridge, there to
force the passage of the river; but the
road leading to Waterloo was passed.
and the northward march continued.
The Rappahannock Qocally the Hege-
NAM is here confined in narrow limits
oy bold hills and rocky cliffs, and some
miles above the bridge there is a road
hru these, crossing the river at Hin
sons Mills. The picturesque surround
ngs of the ford at this place and the
'ool bath into which the men plunged
we're not the less enjoyed because of
he unexpected absence of opposition by
he enemy, and after the Inevitable de-
ay which accompanies any crossing of
/ watercourse by an army. Jacksons
'orps stood on the same side of the
liver with the entire Federal army
After crossing Col Thomas r. Mum
ord's I'd Va. Cav. picketed the roads
eading in the direction of the enemy,
whose whole force, now confronting
4Ongstreet alone, was massed within
ines drawn from Warrenton and Wa
erloO on the north to the Orange & |
Alexandria Railroad ,mow called the
on the south. But Jackson's |
curse was not directed toward the enc
ny. We We're marching toward the |
over Valley of Virginia, with our des-
ination shrouded in mystery.
Prom the crossing at Hinson'S Mills
ackson's course still took the same di- |
ection-thru the little village of Or |
can, along the base of small noun
ain which crops up in Fauquier Coun-
y, and on to the little town of Salem, |
Vhere his foot cavalry after a march |
f over &c miles on Midsummer's day, |
ested for the night. At dawn on the
9Th the route was resumed-this day
I right angles with the direction of that
f the preceding, and now, with faces
ct to the sunrise, the troops advanced
oward the Bull Run Mountains. which
oomed UP across the pathway
"Thoroughfare Gap. of this range. IS
passing from the Shenandoah
ALLEY. penetrates the last mountain
bstruction on its way to tidewater.
1arching along the graded bed of this
Dad, between the spurs and cliffs which
Use on either side, and refreshed BY
ne cooler atmosphere Of the mountain
levation, the Confederate troops poured
1ru the narrow pathway and streamed
own into the plain below Used to-
,anty diet, they had early learned the
rt of supplementing their slender COM
lissariat, and the tempting corn fields
long which they passed We're made to
ay tribute"
POpe's Mnnuverx.
Upon learning of Jackson's presence
Manassas, Pope did the natural and
,ldierly thing in deciding at once to
,row his whole force against him and
'ush him before Lee could come to his
'sistance thru Thoroughfare Gap. He
1T that this could be done, and it could ,
ave been DONE had the order been
Iecuted with the same swift certainty