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The Daily Dispatch: February 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
roops under my command which terminated in the battle of Manassas. I assumed command at Harper's Ferry on the 23d of may. the force at that Point then consisted of nine regiments and two battaliot was necessary to be able, on emergency, to join General Beauregard. the occupation of Harper's Ferry by our army perfectly suited the enemy's views.--we were bound to a fixed Point. His movemeailway, and the bridges on the Potomac destroyed. On the morning of the 15th, the army left Harper's Ferry for Winchester, (the force had been increased by these regiments since the 1st of June,) andmney had fallen back. A courier from Richmond brought a dispatch authorizing me to evacuate Harper's Ferry at my discretion. the arms was ordered to gain the Martinsburg Turnpike by a flank move necessary. Lieutenant-Colonel George Stewart, with his Maryland battalion, was sent to Harper's Ferry to bring off some public property said to have been left. As McClellan was moving southwest