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The Daily Dispatch: August 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
greater skill that of advancing, is recommending in his paper that no farther attack be made upon Manassas; but that a strong force be landed upon the Potomac, as the mouth of the Occoquan, within ten miles of the Confederate right flank, and at Dumfries, within twenty miles of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, so as to turn our position at Manassas, and cut off the retreat of our army, whilst Banks' column should move simultaneously, &c. That is seems that, after all Gen. McClellan's warins a little knowledge of military matters, it is impossible to make him keep the peace Nevertheless, leaky vessels may be of service to somebody. Our Generals will, no doubt, be ready for any movement of the enemy is any direction, whether by Dumfries, Winchester, Manassas, from Newport News across the river, or via Western Virginia and Kentucky. We now recollect it was Ray Mond who modestly suggested, in the beginning of the war, that "two well-equipped million of twenty-five thousand sick