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The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1863., [Electronic resource], Our army Correspondence. (search)
3. Having been on the march with Ewell's corp since Thursday, the 23d, I have had no opportunity of communicating with you, and no means of forwarding a letter had the opportunity of writing been presented. I have just arrived here, and have only time enough before the closing of the mail for Richmond to give some particulars of the fight at Manassas Gap, on the afternoon of the 23d, the day we left Winchester. Generals Longstreet and Hill preceded Gen. Ewell, and passing through Chester's Gap, in the Blue Ridge, Wright's brigade, of Anderson's division, was detached by Gen. Hill, and left to guard the pass until Gen Ewell, who was in the rear, should have sufficient time to come up, cross the river at Front Royal, proceed without interruption down the Valley and cross the mountains at a point lower down. Not long after the departure of the corps of Hill and Longstreet, the Yankees, estimated by some at one or two corps, advanced from the direction of Centreville and Manassas