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The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Our army correspondence. (search)
corps, commanded by Generals Jackson, Longstreet and Hill. Of these corps Jackson's was engaged in the siege of Harper's Ferry, and the other two covered his operations. Conceiving it to be of great importance to raise the siege and to relieve the beleaguered forces, which amounted in numbers almost to a corps d' armee, McClellan resolved to make a powerful effort. He left Washington, it is said, with a force of 80,000 men. From the correspondents of the Yankee papers we heard of him at Rockville and other places on the National road, some time last week, from which we conclude that his army marched upon that road in the direction of Fredericktown. The road passes through Fredericktown, but whether McClellan kept it that far we have no means of ascertaining. The first we hear of him is at Boonsborough, in Washington county, which is nearly equidistant from Fredericktown, Harper's Ferry, and Hagerstown, being between twelve and fifteen miles from each, and lying a little north of