Posted on 10/18/2023 6:15:24 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Saturday, Oct. 17.
It is ascertained from the Army of the Potomac that the heavy rain of yesterday prevented any field operations.
Our cavalry scouts failed to find any considerable body of the enemy, and our signal men, owing to the fog and haze, saw indications of only one large camp, at Bristow Station.
It is believed the enemy, having during the previous day reconnoitered our position, and finding our lines impregnable, retired rearward, and fearing a rise in the Rappahannock would interfere with their base of supplies, have expedited their movements toward that line
Our troops are equally well posted for an advance or defence. The enemy's forced marches and the scarcity of supplies render it impossible to actively advance or retreat. If they attack us, their defeat is considered beyond doubt.
Gen. SICKLES arrived in the front last night, prepared to take the field if a fight ensue. His friends there, however, think his valor carries him too far in his present physical condition.
A report reached Headquarters that the enemy were in force this morning at and around Manassas Junction. Some of our troops immediately prepared to advance, probably to reconnoitre.
Our recent movements have been exclusively of a strategic character, in which LEE has been thus far completely outgeneraled by MEADE. No fears exist of our not being able to cope with LEE in the field, if we can get his forces in a mass, without our having a long base of supplies to protect.
The Republican says the Government has information contradicting the report that LEE's army had been thrown across the Upper Potomac into Maryland.
Hon. JOHN M. BOTTS, it is already known, has been taken a second time to Richmond by the rebels.
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