Statistics for occurrence #1 of “McDowell” in chapter 5, page 73 of Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative:
...s, D. H. Hill's, and Huger's) would be held in observation, ready to cross when Porter's corps was driven back.
Everything was in readiness by sundown on the 28th, when further news was received.
McDowell had suddenly stopped his advance, and his troops seemed to be falling back toward Manassas.
What had happened was that Jackson had again broken loose in the Valley and
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