. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . n an exposed position across the hastily repairedbridge at Rappahannock Station that he managed to delude the Union general into accepting this pointas his real objective. Leaving Early quite as mystified as his opponent, Jackson dispatched Stuart withall the cavalry to Catletts Station, on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad, where Popes supply trains wereparked. The night of August 23d was pitchy black, and the rain was descending in torrents, when theConfederate horsemen burst into Popes camp. A few hours later they rode away with
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . n an exposed position across the hastily repairedbridge at Rappahannock Station that he managed to delude the Union general into accepting this pointas his real objective. Leaving Early quite as mystified as his opponent, Jackson dispatched Stuart withall the cavalry to Catletts Station, on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad, where Popes supply trains wereparked. The night of August 23d was pitchy black, and the rain was descending in torrents, when theConfederate horsemen burst into Popes camp. A few hours later they rode away with the Federal generalsuniform and horses, his treasure-chest and personal effects, a member of his staff, and some three hundredprisoners, leaving the blazing camp behind them. The retreat of the cavalry was the final indication thatthere would be no more efforts to turn his right. Two days later Jackson, with twenty thousand men,marched around the Union right and, joined by Stuarts cavalry, captured the immense supply-departmentdepot at Manassas & fa fc s i* OJ _ — ■5 <J fc c < 3 a s? § £ -3 b & F &
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