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Title: Popular history of the civil war
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Cheney, C. Emma (Clara Emma)
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Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ll couldinvent, the North and the South began a hand-to-handstruggle for the mastery. Already had ten thousand men crossed the Potomac intoVirginia. They were posted on the left bank of the river,stretching, in the shape of a crescent, or new moon, fromAlexandria to Georgetown. At Fortress Monroe, General Butler commanded fifteenthousand men; and General Patterson, with his eighteenthousand, was supposed to be in the neighborhood of Win-chester. The Confederates had also gathered an army, the greaterpart of which, under General P. G. T. Beauregard, lay atManassas Junction, about thirty-five miles south-west fromWasliington. As we know, Johnston, with eight thousandConfederates, was at this moment trying to escape Patter-son, whom he supposed to be at his heels, in order to joinBeauregard at Manassas Junction. At this place two rail-roads cross each other; and, from its position among thehills, it .would seem an easy matter to resist an attack whichmight be made from the north or west.
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THE OLD FLAG. i86i.) A Black Monday. 95 The Union army, organized and commanded by Briga-dier-General McDowell, was now greatly increased in viewof making an immediate attack upon the enemy. One morning about the middle of July, the Union campwas stirring very early. Soon, in the gray dawn, four longdark columns began to move toward the south, all goingin the same direction, but by different roads. So, thirty-four thousand strong, this Grand Army ofthe Potomac went gayly out to its first battle. Many of themen had enlisted at the first call of the President, and theirtime was nearly out. They had become a little used tomilitary order and usages; but the greater part of this armywas composed of new recruits who answered to the secondcall, and who were not, therefore, very soldierly in theirhabits. A very small proportion of this vast company wasregulars. It is true that General McDowell commanded, but eachdivision was under the charge of a separate general. A division is made of three

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