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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 22: the War on the Potomac and in Western Virginia. (search)
at Martinsburg the insurgents near Washington, 525. a skirmish at Vienna, 526. insurgents at Matthias Point, 527. skirmish at Matthias Poiy fired upon a train of cars on that road, at the little village of Vienna, fifteen miles from Alexandria. General McDowell immediately order and proceeded cautiously in cars and on trucks in the direction of Vienna. Detachments were left at different points along the road, one of lity during the earlier years of the war. When the train approached Vienna, only four companies, comprising less than three hundred men, were the Potomac region as far as Dranesville, and, having come down to Vienna, had just torn up some of the railway and destroyed a water-tank, anot in force in that vicinity, they returned and took possession of Vienna and Falls Church Village. On that occasion, the flag of the Sovere endeavoring to blockade the Potomac. Ten days after the affair at Vienna, there were some stirring scenes connected with that blockade at Ma
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 25: the battle of Bull's Run, (search)
s strongly intrenched at Winchester, in the Shenandoah Valley; and General Patterson was at Martinsburg, a few miles below him, charged with the duty of keeping Johnston from re-enforcing Beauregard at Bull's Run. The subjoined map indicates the theater of operations on which the four armies were about to perform. Orders for the advance were given on the 15th, July, 1861. and at half-past 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, Tyler's column, forming the right wing, went forward to Vienna, and encamped for the night. At sunrise the next morning, July 17. the whole army moved in four columns. The men were in light marching order, with cooked provisions for three days in their knapsacks. The village of Fairfax Court House was their destination, where, it was expected, the Confederates would offer battle. Beauregard's Headquarters at Manassas. Tyler, with the right wing, moved along the Georgetown Road. Hunter, with the center, advanced by the Leesburg and Centrevil