. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE rXHEEDED WARNING Here we see Catletts Station, onthe Orange & Alexandria Rail-road, which Stuarts cavalryseized in a night sortie on August22, 18C2. The damage done wasnot severe. Stuart was unableto burn the loaded wagon-trainssurrounding the station and hadto content himself with capturinghorses, which he mounted withwounded Federal soldiers; heescaped at four the morning,driven off by the approach of asuperior force. Pope, at thetime, was in possession of tliefords of the Rappahannock, try-ing to check the Confederate
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE rXHEEDED WARNING Here we see Catletts Station, onthe Orange & Alexandria Rail-road, which Stuarts cavalryseized in a night sortie on August22, 18C2. The damage done wasnot severe. Stuart was unableto burn the loaded wagon-trainssurrounding the station and hadto content himself with capturinghorses, which he mounted withwounded Federal soldiers; heescaped at four the morning,driven off by the approach of asuperior force. Pope, at thetime, was in possession of tliefords of the Rappahannock, try-ing to check the Confederate ad-vance toward the Shenandoah. Stuarts raid, however, so alarmed General Halleck that heimmediately telegraphed Pope from Washington: Bj no meansexpose your railroad communication wdth Alexandria. It is ofthe utmost importance in sending your supplies and reinforce-ments. Pope did not fall back upon his railroad communica-tion, however, until after Jackson had seized Manassas ( ATLE IT .\t Manassas Junction, as it ap-peared in the upper picture onAugust 20, 1802, is one of thefjreat neglected strategic pointsin the theater of the miles from Alexan-dria and thirty miles in a directline from Washington, it was al-most within long cannon-shotfrom any point in both the luck-less battles of Bull Run. It wason the railway route connectingwith Richmond, and at the junc-tion of the railway running acrossthe entrance to the ShenandoahNalley and beyond the BlueRidge, through Manassas Confederates knew its value,and after the first battle of Bull Run built the fortifications whichwe see in the upper picture, to the left beyond the supply-carson the railroad. Pope, after the battle of Cedar Mountain,should have covered it, extending his lines so as to protect itfrom Jacksons incursion through Thorouglifare Gap; instead heheld the main force of his army opposing that of Lee.
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