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The Daily Dispatch: September 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
there is not improbable. We have information that the enemy was encamped some twenty or thirty thousand strong at Gainesville, near Manassas Junction, at 2 o'clock yesterday morning. A large portion of Taylor's New Jersey brigade was captun, and marched rapidly back, in three columns. I directed McDowell, with his own and Sigel's corps, to march upon Gainesville by the Warrenton and Alexandria pike; Reno and one division of Heintzelman to march on Greenwich; and, with Porter's ction. McDowell was ordered to interpose between the forces of the enemy which had passed down to Manassas through Gainesville and his main body, moving down from White Plains through Thoroughfare Gap. This was completely accomplished, Long-strre dispersed. Some of our scouts who ranged through the woods to ascertain the exact condition of affairs, saw at Gainesville, ten miles beyond Manassas, a rebel encampment which they estimated at from 20,000 to 30,000. The rebel forces, compo