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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)
n and Luray road at Waterloo Bridge, is crossed by only three roads, one at Leesburg, another at Aldie, northwest of Fairfax Court-House, the third at Thoroughfare Gap, a long narrow breach between t Court-house, whence a branch called the Little River Turnpike is detached from the main line to Aldie, reaches Centreville, runs down to the stone bridge, where it crosses Bull Run, passes through tcommunications with Lee through Thoroughfare Gap if possible; if not, more to the north, through Aldie. It was therefore the left wing of the Federal army which should have been brought forward, so lle. The Union general, believing that the Confederates were falling back to the northward upon Aldie, resolved at once to pursue them in that direction, and ordered a new movement accordingly. McDairfax Court-house, branches off from the Gainesville and Warrenton turnpike in the direction of Aldie, westnorth-west. He marched upon Fairfax, and in spite of a violent storm reached the hamlet of