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JACKSON’S RAID AROUND POPE.

was in no hurry to exe-cute those tactical move-ments which he recog-nized as essential to hissafety and to the de-livery of his heaviestblows. On one flank,

Fitz Lee was as near toAlexandria as to Manas-sas Junction ; and, onthe other, Munford andRosser were in advanceof Bristoe. Jackson wasresting—as a man full oflife and vigor, ready tostart into action at thefirst touch—but he rest-ed in the consciousnessof security. The Fed-eral commander, aroundwhose flank and rearfourteen brigades of in-fantry, two of cavalry,and eighteen light bat-teries had passed, wasalso resting—but in pro-found ignorance. On the26th he ordered Heintzel-man “ to send a regiment ” from Warrenton to Manassas , “ to repair the wiresand protect the railroad.” Aroused, however, on the evening of the 27th, tosome appreciation of the condition of affairs, he sent one division (Hooker’s) ofHeintzelman’s corps to Bristoe, which attacked the brigades of Lawton, Early,and Forno (Hays’s) of Ewell’s division, who successively retired, as they hadbeen directed to do, with little loss, upon the main body at Manassas Junction .

At his leisure, Jackson now proceeded to execute his projected movements.A. P. Hill was ordered to Centreville, Ewell to cross Bull Run at Blackburn’sFord and follow the stream to the stone bridge, and my division by the Sndleyroad, to the left of the other routes, to the vicinity of Sudley Mills, north ofthe Warrenton pike, where the whole command was to be concentrated. Theimmense accumulation of stores and the captured trains were set on fire aboutmidnight and destroyed^) [see p. 511]; and at night the troops took up theirmarch, Jackson accompanying his old division then under my command. Thenight was starlit but moonless, and a slight mist or haze which settled aboutthe earth made it difficult to distinguish objects at any distance. Still, little

S None of the Federal reports mention seeing the light of this great fire or that at Union Mills

on the same night.—E ditors.

THE STONE BRIDGE, BULL RUN, FROM THE NORTH BANK.FROM A SKETCH MADE IN 1884.

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