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The Daily Dispatch: October 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Shooting affair. (search)
d their purpose, these positions were abandoned, not from fear of a flank movement, not because the rebels were awe-stricken by the immense preparations going on in front of them, but because no object could be served by holding them an hour longer. While the army of the Potomac has been intently watching the progress of their entrenchments and daily expecting an attack in front or in flank, large bodies of troops have been thrown into Western Virginia and Tennessee, to reinforce Lee and Zollicoffer. Our dispatches from Washington this morning, indicate that such suspicious have finally been aroused there, and that instead of Washington being in danger, the real peril and the real field of operations, are hundreds of miles from the Potomac. Manassas is so admirably fortified by all accounts, that it can be readily held by 30,000 efficient men against twice their numbers. This would enable Beauregard to detach 25,000 men for operations in Tennessee, and as many in Western Virgi