Posted on 07/21/2021 4:38:59 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Saturday, July 20.
Advices from Centreville state that no movement has yet taken place. The troops will advance to-night, and it is believed that at daylight to-morrow an attack will be made on the intrenchments which have been thrown up on the roads. It is said that very formidable works have been erected, and heavy reinforcements have come to Manassas.
Secretary CAMERON was in camp this morning. Mr. RAYMOND reached Centreville at 10 o'clock this morning.
FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.
WASHINGTON, Saturday, July 20 -- 9 1/2 P.M.
With the great influx of strangers to-day came an unprecedented heat, the like of which has not for months been known. Several soldiers have been sun stricken, sundry civilians have collapsed with heat, and the horses harnessed before the Army wagons have suffered very perceptibly.
The air has been pregnant with rumors of battle and carnage, and this afternoon we were treated to a batch of reports, alike ridiculous and false. I am authorized to state that, so far as the War Department is concerned, there is no intelligence to-day of any serious collision between the forces encamped at Bull's Run or elsewhere.
Last evening, a squad of men belonging to the New-York Sixty-ninth were bathing in the creek near the field of the late engagement, when they were fired upon by pickets who were stationed some hundred yards beyond. The squad, being unprovided with weapons, did the best they could in the running line, and left their clothes on the bank. One, named THOS. SCOTT, was wounded in the calf of the left leg.
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‘Honey, Manassas isn’t far. Let’s take the buggy, pack a picnic and go watch the battle.’
Look at the names leading the Union flanking attack. Franklin, Porter, Burnside, Hunter. All would go on to lead bigger and worse disasters.
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