. Story of the Confederate States; or, History of the war for southern independence, embracing a brief but comprehensive sketch of the early settlement of the country, trouble with the Indians, the French, revolutionary and Mexican wars .. . were very diligentand active in preparations to defend Virginia at everypoint. Soon after the secession of Virginia the Stateauthorities had seized Harpers Ferry in tlie north-east, and in the southeast had occupied Portsmouthand Norfolk, with the navy-yard. The ConfederateGovernment hurried troops to Virginia from everypart of the Confederacy. By the last
. Story of the Confederate States; or, History of the war for southern independence, embracing a brief but comprehensive sketch of the early settlement of the country, trouble with the Indians, the French, revolutionary and Mexican wars .. . were very diligentand active in preparations to defend Virginia at everypoint. Soon after the secession of Virginia the Stateauthorities had seized Harpers Ferry in tlie north-east, and in the southeast had occupied Portsmouthand Norfolk, with the navy-yard. The ConfederateGovernment hurried troops to Virginia from everypart of the Confederacy. By the last of June thetotal Confederate effective strength in Virginia wasabout 65,000 men. Of these 5,000 were in West Vir-ginia under Garnett, 15,000 were in the ShenandoahValley under General Joseph E. Johnston, 20,000were near and about Manassas under General Beaure-gard, 8,000 were at Aquia Creek and on the lower Po-tomac under General T. H. Holmes, while the rest The Campaign in Virginia. 125 were under Magruder at Yorktown and Hugor at Nor-folk. At the same time the Union or Federal troopsaggregated at least 100,000—part under Butler atFortress Monroe, ])art under ^IcDowell at WashinL-ton, some under Patterson at AVilliamsport on the. COLONEL R. E. LEE. upper Potomac, and the rest under McClellan in West Virginia. 3. McClellan began his campaign, as we have seen,early in July. Patterson began his campaign aboutthe same time. As he advanced towards Martins-burg, Johnston abandoned Harpers Ferry and retired 126 Stoky of the Confederate States. toward Winchester. By the middle of July McDowellwas ready to advance against Beauregards position atManassas. On the 16th of July, at the head of thebest equipped army that had ever been seen in Amer-ica, McDowell entered Virginia, confident of a tri-umphant march to Richmond. First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run). 4. If Beauregard could be attacked before reinforce-ments reached him, McDowell felt sure of Scott,^ the Federal
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