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Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.a lady's opinion of our invaders — a view of them in and about Alexandria. Saturday, August 8. I will not tell of my feelings on Sunday, the battle day, as I heard the incessant boom of the cannon. It was awful — a day I can never forget. Mother was very desponding, but I can truthfully say my faith in our men never wavered, not even when an officer told us that he had received a dispatch saying that Bull Run was taken and the "Grand Army" was marching on Manassas. Not even when late at night. I was told that Manassas was taken and 30,000 Southerners had laid down their arms! My indignation passed all bounds at this. The first thing I heard the next morning was that the Federals were pouring down the road, the Confederates in full chase. (Oh, if it had been altogether true!) And so they continued to come all day, twenty or thirty at a time, sometimes fewer; but early in the morning it was one continual stream of broken down, be