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The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], War Matters (search)
tails of the affair which could not fall to interest your readers if I fell at liberty to give them. Suffice it to say, we came near capturing the greater part of Pope's army. Two hours more and the thing would have been done. Three guns were fired in succession by the Confederates about 9 o'clock the night before, which seem te unable to get within range of his flying columns. Indeed, it was a running fight from the moment the Federals learned we had attacked them in force. Possibly Gen. Pope had orders to retire in the event he was attacked, since one can hardly conceive how 20,000 fresh troops in position could fail to offer a stubborn resistance toed together in an entrenched camp behind Seven Miles Creek, about a mile and a half back at Farmington. These troops had ample time to come to the assistance of Gen. Pope possibly flalleck thought we would follow a across the creek, where he would have great the advantage; or, it may be, he was not ready for the decisive battle, a