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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 1 (search)
would be free immediately to occupy the Valley of Virginia, and to pass to the rear of Manassas Junction .. . We moved at nine o'clock, and, passing through Smithfield, reached the turnpike at Bunker's Hill in the afternoon, and bivouacked on the banks of the stream that flows through the hamlet. Next morning the troops weted that the Federal army had advanced from Martinsburg to Bunker's Hill. It remained there on the 16th, and on the 17th moved by its left flank a few miles to Smithfield. This gave the impression that General Patterson's design was to continue this movement through Berryville, to interpose his army between the Confederate forcets near their columns, learning their movements quickly, and concealing our own. Stuart's expected report showed that the Federal army had not advanced from Smithfield at nine o'clock. It was certainly too far from our road, therefore, to be able to prevent or delay our march. This information left no doubt of the expediency