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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Maryland. (search)
tillery, with the various special corps, completed the figures we have just mentioned. On the 15th, even before the Federals had entirely evacuated Harrison's Landing, Longstreet's heads of column arrived at Gordonsville, and the day following, precisely at the same hour that McClellan was proceeding toward Williamsburg, Jackson was proceeding once more in the direction of Cedar Mountain. Before crossing the Rapidan he waited for the remainder of Lee's army to join him. Finally, on the 20th of August, he crossed the river at Somerville Ford, while Longstreet was performing the same operation lower down, at Raccoon Ford. They expected to surprise Pope in the positions which he had occupied since the battle of Cedar Mountain. But the Federal general, most fortunately for him, had been informed by a letter of Lee, intercepted on the 16th, of the movements and strength of the Confederate army. Notwithstanding the arrival of Reno, who had joined him on the 14th with his two small div