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The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], $10 reward (search)
nt, Washington, was also stated to have been on the field, in company with Mr. Ely, Congressman from the Rochester District, N. Y., who was captured, and Senator Foster, of Connecticut. They came to witness a Waterloo defeat of the Confederate Army. They fled after witnessing a Waterloo defeat of Gen. Scott's grand army. Of the pursuit, already the particulars are known. Suffice it to say, we followed them on the Leesburg road and on the Centreville road as far as Centreville and Fairfax. The poor wretches dropped their guns, their knapsacks, their blankets, and everything they had — they fell on their knees and prayed for mercy. They received it — Southerners have no animosity against a defeated enemy. We have captured 900 prisoners, and they will be treated with kindness. We have also captured 67 pieces of cannon, among them numerous fine pieces, Armstrong guns and rifled cannon, hundreds of wagon loads of provisions and ammunition. The credit is accorded t
The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], $10 reward (search)
morning, announcing Bull's Run battery taken by the Federal troops, and that fighting — a terrible battle — has been raging all the morning with immense slaughter. The Confederates are said to have been reinforced by General Johnston, and now have an army of eighty thousand men. This informant further says some eight or ten regiments have just been ordered from Washington to reinforce McDowell. I, however, take his whole story with many grains of allowance. The telegraph only works to Fairfax, and I am too near it just now to credit all outside rumors. To-night will solve the mystery. It is almost painful to behold the anxiety in this metropolis to hear from the seat of war. The rumor of Beauregard being so strongly reinforced, and accounts of this immense army, computed by those who, perhaps, do not know, at eighty thousand, is calculated to beget the idea of a terrible conflict when it does take place. The Federal army, however, is said to be fully adequate to the emerg