son's skirmish.
Pope at a loss.
Ewell attacks King.
hard fighting.
losses.
Thoroughfare Gap.
fe ruins of Manassas, until 5 P. M. At that hour King's division of Mc-Dowell's corps,—four brigades ard Centreville in pursuance of Pope's order.
King had been marching from Gainesville to Manassas,he road, might have remained hidden and allowed King to pass.
Had he known that, at that moment, Les had been disclosed to Pope by the attack upon King's division, but Pope failed to note that Jacksoe looked for help from Porter's corps, and from King's and Ricketts's divisions of McDowell's corps.nes, and advanced a brigade across the stream.
King's division, which was marching in rear of Porteo 18 hours marchings.
When McDowell left, with King and Ricketts, Porter considered himself too wet could be halted and brought back.
Meanwhile, King's division, though worn by its march to Manassabloody, but the first half-hour of it converted King's advance into a retreat.
He, was pursued unti[12 more...]
2d Corps Jackson'sEwellLawton, Trimble, Early, Hays7
Hill, A. P.Branch, Archer, Gregg, Pender, Field, Thomas7
JacksonWinder, Jones, J. K., Taliaferro, Starke6
Hill, D. H.Ripley, Garland, Rodes, Anderson, G. B. Colquitt4
Total 2d Corps4 Divisions19 Brigades, 24 Batteries, 100 Guns24
ArtilleryPendletonPendleton's Reserve, 58 Guns12
CavalryStuartHampton, Lee F., Robertson, 14 Guns3
Aggregate2 Corps, 10 Divisions43 Brigades, 284 guns, 55,000 Men67
CORPSDIVISIONSBRIGADESBATTS.
1st CorpsKingPhelps, Doubleday, Patrick, Gibbon4
HookerRickettsDuryea, Christian, Hartsuff2
MeadeSeymour, Magilton, Gallagher4
2d CorpsRichardsonCaldwell, Meagher, Brooke2
SumnerSedgwickGorman, Howard, Dana2
FrenchKimball, Morris, Weber3
5th CorpsMorellBarnes, Griffin, Stockton3
PorterSykesBuchanan, Lovell, Warren3
HumphreysHumphreys, Tyler, Allabach2
6th CorpsSlocumTorbert, Bartlett, Newton4
FranklinSmith, W. F.Hancock, Brooks, Irwin3
CouchDevens, Howe, Cochrane4
9th CorpsWillcox, O. B.Christ,
other.
Nearly all were unfamiliar with the country in which they found themselves, which was unusually wooded and hilly.
Bragg, himself, was lacking in quick appreciation of features of topography.
The organization of the Federal army, with its strength present for duty before the battle, is given below, and also Livermore's estimate of the Effective Strength.
Army of the Cumberland, Gen. Rosecrans, Sept. 19--20, 1863
corpsDIVISIONSBRIGADESBATTERIES
14thBairdScribner, Starkweather, King3
ThomasNegleyBeatty, Stanley, Sirwell3
Pres. 22,758BrannonConnell, Croxton, Van Derveer3
ReynoldsWilder, King, Turchin3
20thDavisPost, Carlin, Heg3
McCookJohnsonWillich, Dodge, Baldwin3
Pres. 13,372SheridanLytle, Laiboldt, Bradley3
21stWoodBuell, Wagner, Harker3
CrittendenPalmerCruft, Hazen, Grose4
Pres. 14,190Van CleveBeatty, Dick, Barnes3
Reserve
GrangerSteedmanWhitaker, Mitchell, McCook3
Pres. 5,489
Total Inf. and Art., 33 Brigades, 204 Guns, Pres. 53,919.
Effective 50,144
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