MCDOWELL'S ADVANCE TO BULL RUN.
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On Beauregard’s left,sixty miles distant, inthe Lower ShenandoahValley and separatedfrom him by the BlueRidge Mountains , wasthe Confederate army ofthe Shenandoah undercommand of GeneralJohnston. Beauregard’sauthority did not extendover the forces of John-ston, Huger, Magruder,or Holmes, but Holmeswas with him before thebattle of Bull Run, andso was Johnston, who,as will appear more fullyhereafter, joined at adecisive moment.
Early in June Patter-son was pushing hiscolumn against Harper’sFerry , and on the 3d ofthat month McDowellwas called upon by Gen-eral Scott to submit “ anestimate of the numberand composition of acolumn to he pushedtoward Manassas Junc-tion and perhaps theGap, say in 4 or 5 days,to favor Patterson’sattack upon Harper’sFerry .” McDowell hadthen been in commandat Arlington less than aweek, his raw regimentssouth of the Potomacwere not yet brigaded,and this was the first
A WASHINGTON PASS OF 1861.4
4The hold signature of ‘'Drake De Kay” on Drake De Kay, who was the son of Commodorethe passes issued by General Mansfield while com- George C. De Kay, closed his shipping and com-manding the Department at Washington, gave ce- mission office in New York , with no more ceremonylebrity to the young aide-de-camp whose duty it than to pin to the door the statement, “Gone towas to sign them. At the outbreak of the war Washington. Back at close of war.” He took with
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