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Title: Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac (electronic resource): a critical history of operations in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, from the commencement to the close of the war 1861-5
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Swinton, William, 1833-1892
Subjects: United States. Army of the Potomac
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
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nd, he did not attempt to carry it out,finding Lee, perhaps, less impressed than he should havebeen with the apparition of Pope lying off on his flanks. Pope having withdrawn behind the Rappahannock, Lee ad-vanced his army to that stream, but finding that the Unioncommander covered the fords in force, he left Longstreetopposite these, to mask a turning movement by Jackson onPopes right, by way of Warrenton.t Jackson accordinglyascended the Rappahannock by the south bank, and crossedthe head of his column (Earlys brigade) at Sulphur orWarrenton Springs on the 22d Atigust. But that day asevere storm rendered the river impassable, and Early wascompelled to recross the Rappahannock, which he did thefollowing night on an improvised bridge. While thesemanoeuvres were under way, Stuart with fifteen hundredhorsemen, made an expedition to cut the railroad communica- * Report on the Conduct of the War, vol. i., p. 278. (■ Lees Report : Reports of the Army of Northern Virginia, vol. i., p. 19.
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POPES CAMPAIGN IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA. 177 tions in rear of Popes army. Stuart succeeded in reacliingCatletts Station in the dead of an exceedingly dark night,fired the camp and captured three hundred prisoners, withPopes official papers and his baggage. He failed, however, toburn the railroad-bridge, and does not seem to have beenaware that Popes entire army train was parked there.* III. JACKSONS FLANK MARCH. The movement of Jackson up the south bank of the Rappa-hannock to turn Popes right was met by a correspondingmovement of Pope up the Rappahannock on the north bank,so that on the 24th, Sigel and Banks and Reno occupied Sul-phur Springs, and Jacksons main body lay on the oppositeside of the stream ; but on the 25th, Jackson, striking outstill further to his left by Amissville, crossed the upperRappahannock—here called the Hedgeman River—at Hen-sons Mill, turned Popes right, and moving by Orleans,bivouacked at Salem, after a forced march of thirty-five miles.Next day (26th) Jack

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