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was only deferred a little over a week beyond the appointed time.
On the 16th of July he issued his orders to march that afternoon.
His army was organized as follows:
First Division, commanded by Tyler: an aggregate of 9,936 men, divided into four brigades, respectively under Keyes, Schenck, Sherman, and Richardson.
Second Division, commanded by Hunter: an aggregate of 2,648 men, divided into two brigades, under Porter and Burnside.
Third Division, commanded by Heintzelman: an aggregate of 9,777 men, divided into three brigades, under Franklin, Willcox, and Howard.
Fourth Division, commanded by Runyon: an aggregate of 5,752 men; no brigade commanders.
Fifth Division, commanded by miles: an aggregate of 6,207 men, divided into two brigades, under Blenker and Davies.
Thus, the total of his command, not including four regiments left in the Alexandria and Arlington forts, was 34,320 men. From this number, however, Runyon's division may at once be deducted; it was left behind to guard his communications, its most advanced regiment being seven miles in rear of Centreville.
McDowell's actual moving column may therefore be said to have consisted of 28,568 1 men, including artillery, a total of forty-nine guns, and a single battalion of cavalry.
1 From this number it is entirely just to make yet another deduction. The period of enlistment of the Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment, and of Captain Va-rian's Battery of (New York) Light Artillery having expired, they were dis-charged by official order at Centreville, July 20th, the day before the battle.
It will thus be seen that, instead of the thirty thousand he asked for, McDowell had, perhaps, less than twenty-eight thousand men, with forty-nine guns; and official reports show that, instead of the thirty-five thousand rebels he expected to meet at Manassas, there were on the field thirty-two thousand men, with fifty-seven guns-less than his estimate, but about four thousand more than his own army.
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