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The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
ress vouches for the correctness of the following statements: Of course the principal topic is how Jackson managed to get around the right wing of General Pope's army, and make his raid upon Manassas Junction, for the purpose of operating in the rear of General Pope's army, while General Lee made the attack on the front. All the six days fighting of our army on the Rappahannock is now known to have been merely a feint on the part of the rebels, and their supposed retreating towards Sperryville via Little Washington was also intended for the same purpose. Instead of the whole rebel army moving back, General Lee carefully concealed his main force along the banks of the Rappahannock, while he sent Jackson to Warrenton with 40,000 men, 5,000 of whom were cavalry, under Colonel Lee, to march along the country between the Blue Ridge and Bull Run range of mountains. Jackson concentrated his forces at White Plains and Salem, and sent his cavalry through to reconnoitre. Soon he f