The Line of Gen. McDowell’s Advance Upon Richmond (map) – 2
From Gen. M’Clellan’s Army: Important Advices Received at the War Department – 3-4
Latest from Gen. Banks: Everything Quiet at Harper’s Ferry and Williamsport – 4-5
Banks’ Retreat from Strasburgh: The Three Days’ Operations – 5-6
News from Washington: A Message to Congress from President Lincoln – 6-7
Editorial: The Campaign in Virginia – Recent Movements of Banks and McDowell – 7
Editorial: The Call for Troops – 7-8
Norfolk and Its Navy-Yard – 8
Editorial: Southern Trade – 8
The President Takes the Responsibility – 8
The English Treaty with Mexico – 8
Interesting daily read leading up to the Battle on the 31st. The beginning of the end of McClellan as the Great War hero.
The articles describing the misadventures of general banks as he is driven out of the Shenandoah as well as the aborted strategic cooperation of McDowell with McClellan, vividly illustrate the war-changing consequences of Stonewall Jackson’s Valley campaign of 1862.
Although the article declares there is no threat to Washington and opines that Jackson can be cut off by forces meeting in his rear, history tells us that Washington did not in fact act as though there were no threat to the very capital of the nation and Jackson deftly escaped the jaws of the trap only later to the be the one who timely cooperated with Lee in driving McClellan away from the outskirts of Richmond.
By the end of this fighting season of 1862 in Virginia, Lee and Jackson will have driven the federals effectively out of the confines of modern Virginia.