... place. The large bodies of troops which the Federal Administration was hastening from every direction to over whelm him were already closing in. McDowell, with 20,000 men, was hurrying towards Front Royal and Strasburg, and Fremont, now awake to the fact that his enemy had pushed him back into the mountains, and then slipped away to destroy his colleague, was moving with his 14,000 or 15,000 men towar...