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The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
the there branches of the Legislature, the people of the North will begin to feel that fighting is an expensive luxury, particularly if it be unsuccessful. Generals Banks, Butler, and the fortifications of Fortress Monroe--the Defences of James river. It will be weeks before we have done hearing and seeing accounts of Bell Run, or, as it may be better called, of Manassas, unless some other action intervenes, as is very likely indeed. Gen. Banks, not findnig any advantage in occupyorses and harness for his guns, as if he wanted to move them. He is a grim, sour, stern soldier of the old Puritan type, and it attacked he will defend his camp to the last. Should he be beaten, the Confederates will have both sides of James river. Relative value of the officers Slain of both sides. The more closely the consequences of Manassas are investigated, the more serious they seem to be. It must be granted that the Confederates feel their losses more severely than the N
The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
as aroused the enthusiasm of the South to a higher pitch than ever; that, during the last five weeks, troops have been pouring into Virginia from all the other Southern States; that the Confederates have now in arms, according to their own accounts, forces distributed about as follows: No. of men. Beauregard's forces, west of Washington80,000 Johnston's forces, at or near Leesburg40,000 Magruder's forces at Aquia Creek and Fredericksburg20,000 At batteries on Potomac, York, James and Rappahannock rivers12,000 At Yorktown12,000 At Norfolk and Portsmouth10,000 At Richmond5,000 Forces of Generals Lee and Floyd, in Western Virginia50,000 At Lynchburg (Camp of Instruction）10,000 Total$239,000 The disposition of the forces in the immediate vicinity of Washington is apparently in the form of a crescent, the horns resting near the Chain Bridge and Shooter's Hill, and the crescent near Ball's and Balley's Cross Roads. There are strong detachments at Falls Church, at