[6] Ibid.
[7] Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, General G. H. Gordon, p. 136.
[8] Major Harman, of Jackson’s staff, writing to his brother on March 6, says: “The general told me last night that the Yankees had 17,000 men at the two points, Charlestown and Bunker Hill.” On March 8 he writes: “3,000 effective men is about the number of General Jackson’s force. The sick, those on furlough, and the deserters from the militia, reduce him to about that number.”—MS.
[9] O.R., vol. xii, part i, p. 164.
[10] O.R., vol. xi, part iii, p. 26.
[11] General G. H. Gordon.
[12] For an interesting exposition of the views of the soldiers at Washington, see evidence of General Hitchcock, U.S.A., acting as Military Adviser to the President, O.R., vol. xii, part i, p. 221.
[13] O.R., vol. xi, part 333, p. 7.
[14] Ibid., p. 11.
[15] A large portion of the Army of the Potomac, awaiting embarkation, still remained at Centreville. The cavalry had pushed forward towards the Rapidan, and the Confederates, unable to get information, did not suspect that McClellan was moving to the Peninsula until March 25.