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Let us take advantage of this halt in the advance of McDowell's "Grand Army of the United States" as it was termed to view the Rebel position at, and about Manassas, and to note certain other matters having an important and even determining bearing upon the issue of the impending shock-at-arms. Beauregard has received early information of McDowell's advance from Arlington, and of his plans.
"And the Potomac army that is going to advance pretty soon, as I hear is that all right in the respect you have named?" "What? McDowell's army?" said the officer, contemptuously. "When you catch Irwin McDowell not knowing exactly what is ahead of him and around him, you will catch a weasel asleep!" So all the bystanders believed, and were confident accordingly.
He seems to have kept his head, and to have prepared his combinations skilfully for making Jackson pay the penalty of his audacity. There were a few hours of apparent hesitation on August 28th, but champions of McClellan should be the last to urge that against him. His plans were deranged on that day by the accident of McDowell's absence from his own command.
He was always calling for reinforcements, until his army comprised over two hundred thousand men, and when at last imperatively commanded to move, some-whither, at any rate to move, he left Washington not sufficiently defended, which necessitated the withdrawal of McDowell's corps from him to secure the safety of the capital.
Davis's Proclamation for Privateers Lincoln's Proclamation of Blockade The Call for Three Years' Volunteers Southern Military Preparations Rebel Capital Moved to Richmond Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas Admitted to Confederate States Desertion of Army and Navy Officers Union Troops Fortify Virginia Shore of the Potomac Concentration at Harper's Ferry Concentration at Fortress Monroe and Cairo English Neutrality Seward's 21st-of-May Despatch Lincoln's Corrections Preliminary Skirmishes Forward to Richmond Plan of McDowell's Campaign
Learning that the general had neglected this positive injunction, the President ordered McDowell's corps to remain for the protection of the capital; and when the general complained of this, Mr.
Do not let the Enemy amuse and delay you with a small force in front whilst he re-enforces the Junction with his main body. McDowell's first day's work has driven the Enemy beyond Fairfax Court House. The Junction will probably be carried by to-morrow."
On the 2d of October they all gathered to see what could be done to stop the disorders and give the army a single head; for it was thought that in a day or two they would close in with Ferguson. They were in Col. Charles McDowell's district, and he was the senior officer; but the others distrusted his activity and judgment, and were not willing that he should command.
The action raged with great fury for several hours; the rebels constantly massing heavy columns against our lines, especially upon the left, where McDowell's and Sigel's corps resisted the onset with great bravery, but were at length forced to yield, when an utter rout took place; the whole army falling back upon Centreville in great disorder.
His imagination pictured Shan Tung at that moment with Miriam Kirkstone, and at the thought his disgust went out against them both. In this humor he returned to McDowell's office. He stood before his chief, leaning toward him over the desk table. This time he was the inquisitor. "Plainly speaking, this liaison is their business," he declared.
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