. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . and although re-pulsed with heavy loss, he succeeded in 1 maintaining his position,until the main army, under Pope, arrived, when an advance wasmade to the Rapidan River, the movement being to delay andretard the advance of the enemy, until Popes army could be rein-forced from the Peninsula. Soon after the Union army fell backslowly from one position to another towards Washington, Pope suc-cessfully delaying his assailants, but unable to hold them in
. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . and although re-pulsed with heavy loss, he succeeded in 1 maintaining his position,until the main army, under Pope, arrived, when an advance wasmade to the Rapidan River, the movement being to delay andretard the advance of the enemy, until Popes army could be rein-forced from the Peninsula. Soon after the Union army fell backslowly from one position to another towards Washington, Pope suc-cessfully delaying his assailants, but unable to hold them in and successful raids were made on his train on the nightof August 22d, by Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, at Catletts Station,thirty-eight miles from Washington, and by Stonewall Jackson,August 24th, at Manassas, twenty-seven miles from Washington,which caused him to fall back more rapidly. The Federal armyfought bravely and suffered severely a second time at Bull Run,on the 30th of August, but by stubbornly disputing the way, Gen-eral Pope had gained time for McClellans army to reach thescene of action, and thus Washington was RHOD1 ISLAND VOLUNTEE1 :<■<) I In the evening of August 2d, mycomradeof the Tenth and at I [ead-quarters, C. II. Wildman, wrote mefrom Little Washington, Va. : We arenow encamped in a fine place in thewoods. We have wall-tents, and onlythree in a tent. We shall fare well,ami have a colored cook from the cav-alry. By orders just issued we expectto come in contact with old Stonewall Picketing tr»o ;jan. Jackson very soon. Again on the 10th, he wrote me from head-quarters, at Culpeper, Ya.: We started from our camp at ornear Little Washington, on Thursday morning. We encampedthat evening about seven miles from Sperryville, by the side ofa wood. That evening one of General Bankss men, was out inthe woods, looking round, when a party of guerillas appeared andshot him. General Pope sent out a company of cavalry, but didnot find them. WTe arrived
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