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encumbered by baggage, and with roads free from the blockade of trains, themarch was made without serious impediment or difficulty. The enemy wasagain deceived. A. P. Hill ’s march to Centreville was mistaken for that of thewhole command; Jackson was supposed to be between Bull Run and Washing-ton; and now, instead of aregiment, the whole Federalarmy was ordered to con-centrate on Manassas for thepursuit.

Early on the morning ofthe 28th, Colonel BradleyT. Johnson, commanding abi’igade of my division, wasordered down the Warren-ton road toward Gainesville ,with directions to picket theroads converging upon theturnpike near that place. Stuart had already placed a small cavalry force onthis road and north of it, at Hay Market. Johnson, holding Groveton as hisreserve, picketed the road as directed, pushed Captain George R. Gaither’stroop of cavalry, which he found on picket, still farther on in the direction ofWarren ton, and made dispositions to prevent surprise, and to check, ifnecessary, any advance of the enemy.

Ewell’s division having now come up and united with the troops of mycommand, Jackson determined to rest and await further developments.

Captain Gaither had the good fortune to capture a courier conveying adispatch from General McDowell to Generals Sigel and Reynolds, whichrevealed General Pope’s intention of concentrating on Manassas Junction,Sigel being ordered to march on that point from Gainesville , with his rightresting on the Manassas Gap Railroad; Reynolds, also from Gainesville , tokeep his left on the Warrenton road; and King’s division to move en echelonin support of the other two.

In the execution of this order, Reynolds’s column struck Johnson’s com-mand ; but after a short conflict, which was well sustained on both sides, theFederal commander, mistaking Johnson’s force for a reconnoitering party,turned off to the right, on the road to Manassas . Johnson then, by orderof General Stuart, took position, which he held for the rest of the day, northand west of the turnpike.

Johnson’s messenger, bearing the captured order, found the Confederateheadquarters established on the shady side of an old-fashioned worm fence,in the corners of which General Jackson and his two division commanderswere profoundly sleeping after the fatigues of the preceding night, notwith-standing the intense heat of that August day. There was not so much as anambulance at those headquarters. The headquarters’ train was back beyondthe Rappahannock (at Jeffersonton), with servants, camp-equipage, and allthe arrangements for cooking and serving food. All the property of the gen-

THE UNION MONUMENT NEAR THE “DEEP CUT.”FROM A SKETCH MADE IN 1884. (SEE MAPS, PP. 473, 509.)

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