... At Manassas I received from General Beauregard a letter to General McDowell, commanding the U. S. forces at Arlington. From Manassas I proceeded to Fairfax Court-House, where I was furnished, by General Bonham , an escort of fourteen cavalry, under the command of Lieut. Breckinridge, of the Virginia cavalry. Proceeding on the direct road to Alexandria to its junction with the road to Arlington, I met a de...