Beloved Enemy by Al Lacy

Author:Al Lacy [Lacy, Al]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-78048-5
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2011-05-04T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

On Tuesday July 9, Bettie Duval and Susan Rand delivered to General Pierre G.T. Beauregard the message containing the new date for the Union assault at Manassas Junction. Beauregard expressed his deep appreciation; they were going to have a big part in the Confederate victory because he had been forewarned of the attack.

In Washington, however, where neither military nor civilians were aware of the espionage going on under their very noses, there was a growing confidence that the pending battle at Manassas Junction would be a total rout for the North. When word hit Washington of the Union victory in the battle at Rich Mountain, Virginia, on July 11, Northerners found even more reason for their confidence to build.

On Tuesday, July 16, General Irvin McDowell led his troops out of the Washington camps toward Manassas Junction. Word spread through the city and into surrounding towns, and soon the populace knew the assault against the Confederates was going to take place on the following Sunday. A great number of people, including politicians and their families, made plans to take picnic lunches and watch the rout from the high hills on the north side of Bull Run Creek, near the railroad junction.

One unit of men-in-blue marched directly through Washington and down Pennsylvania Avenue past the White House on their way to the battle site. Citizens along the streets cheered when they saw the Yankee soldiers carrying a Confederate flag that had been captured in the battle at Rich Mountain. The city was buzzing with excitement.

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