. Abraham Lincoln et les batailles de la guerre civile . elle. Cette mission del-Ecate a été aussi heureusement qu'elle a été exécutée avec démesure. En début de matinée, les jeunes journalistes criaient dans les rues vides de Washington l'intelhgenceque l'ordre a été donné à la FederalArmy de se déplacer immédiatement sur ma position, cette ferraille de papier, apparemment si insignifiante, atteint les mains de l'unique personne dans toute cette ville qui pourrait en extraire n'importe quel moyen. Sans plus de retard que nécessaire pour un petit déjeuner pressé et l'écriture en chiffre par Mme G de l'ordre de mots émis pour McDowell à march uponMan

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. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . her. This del-icate mission was as fortunately as it wasdeftly executed. In the early morning, asthe newsboys were crying in the as yetempty streets of Washington the intelhgencethat the order was given for the Federalarmy to move at once upon my position, that scrap of paper, apparently so unmean-ing, reached the hands of the one personin all that city who could extract any mean-ing from it. With no more delay than wasnecessary for a hurried breakfast and the writing in cipher by Mrs. G of the words Order issued for McDowell to march uponManassas to-night, my agent was placedin communication with another friend, whocarried him in a buggy with a relay of horsesas swiftly as possible down the eastern shoreof the Potomac to our regular ferry acrossthat river. Without untoward incident themomentous dispatch was quickly deliveredinto the hands of a cavalry courier, andby means of relays it was in my hands be-tween eight and nine oclock that night.Within half an hour, my outpost commanders.. BULL RUN, NEAR BLACKBURN S FORD.[After a photograph taken in March, i362, when the Confederate troops had been withdrawn.] THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN. 87 that and Blackburns ford. (See outline map.) which had been but momentarily shaken byMy order of battle, issued in the night of the the alarm caused by McDowells march upon17th, contemplated an offensive return, par- Richmond.t As this was not an order in terms, ticularly from the strong brigades on the right but an urgency which, notwithstanding itsand right center. The Federal artillery opened superior source, left me technically free andin front of both fords, and the infantry, while could define me as responsible for any mis-demonstrating in front of Mitchells ford, event, I preferred to keep both the situationendeavored to force a passage at Blackburns, and the responsibility, and continuerl everyTheir column of attack, Tylers division, was effort for the prompt arrival of the Shen

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