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The Daily Dispatch: March 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], Notes of the War. (search)
bandoning them also.--That, however, is a military necessity, since they have abandoned their defences on both their right and left flanks. The fact that they are doing so is confirmed by ten or fifteen refugees and contrabands who, availing themselves of the withdrawal of their (the Rebel) picket guards, have come within our lines in the last twenty-four hours. They cannot have spiked their guns and fied from their Potomac batteries and their camps and batteries from the mouth of the Occoquan up to Wolf-run Shoals — burning and destroying everything they could not carry off in a hurry, as they certainly have done — without thus leaving their right flank wholly atour mercy, as well as their Winchester defences — their left flank — with any intention of continuing to remain a moment longer at Manassas than may be necessary to enable them to run their main force away from that position. A portion of the refugess and contrabands, from whom the information received comes, belie