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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. McClellan and the Press. (search)
n, a name now familiar to every reader. On the south side of the Junction is Broad Run, a stream quite as large as Bull Run. On the east side is the Occoquan River, formed by the confluence of Broad Run and Cedar Run, and receiving Bull Run as a tributary. Now, between these three streams, and thus protected by themver, will not arrive until a strong force shall have been sent down the Potomac from Washington, or brought up the Potomac by sea, and landed at the mouth of the Occoquan, within ten miles of the enemy's right flank, and at Dumfries, within twenty miles of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, the channel through which he procures athe first aim should be to render the Capital secure, by adequately guarding the Potomac. That, retain order, formidable forces should be landed at or near Occoquan and Dumfries, and supported at those points by armed vessels, while entrenching themselves there, preparatory to a forward movement. That this movement shou