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THIS ADVANCE OF THE REBEL FORCES.Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch, Sept. 10.MAh assas, September 5,1S61.—Early yesterday morning, eit.hr thousand of me Federate marched up to Munson's Hill, which our men were fortifying, and made an attempt to dislodge them.— Our advance consists of Longstreet^ and Bonham’s Brigades, stationed near each other andclose by Munson's Hill. Longstreet's force iscomposed of the First Virginia Regiment, commanded by Lieuteuant-Colonel Fay, in the ab-sti ce of Colouel Moore, who was wounded at the battle of the IS h; the Seventh Virginia, Colonel Kemper, Lieutenant Colonel Williams and Mapr Patton; the Eleventh Virginia, Cjlonel Garland; the Seventeenth Virginia, Colonel Corse; one Gecrgia regiment, attached at present, and several pieces of artillery. General Bonham has four South Carolina regiments—the Second, Colonel Keishaw; the Third, Colonel Cash; the Fourth, Colonel Sloan, and the Fifth, Colonel Williams.Fairfax Court House, Sept. 5, 1861.— The recent advances against the enemy, which have been carried so far as to afford us now a sight oftheir Capitol; the capturing, killing and pursuit of their scouts, and the hourly invitations to battle, so pressing in their character as to remind one of the cruel bull fights among the Spaniards, when the poor brute, after undergoing the greatest torture and almost exhausted, is infuriated for the last time by having flaunted iu his face a oloo !• red flag, at which he rusnes furiously upon his tormentors, and is stabbed to death—all prove that the “Grand Army will not again give us battle, or even combat, until pressed to the very wall. Notwithstanding the important advantage of a much closer proximity to their main body, by which their engaged forces could be more rapidly swollen than ours, they have been drivea from all their outposts aud forced to take shelter under the cannon of Arlington and Alexandria.— Nor wi.l the terror-stricken brute allow himself to be made mad,i although the “red flag is daily fiung in his face.1 ’The impression prevails among officers and men, in camp and elsewhere, that our armies can remain idle but a few days longer, and that blscdy fighting is ahead.General Beauregard and staff passed through Fail lax Court House a day or two ago, and visited the vicinity of Falls Cuurch before returning to Manassas.The long range Enfield guns, with which the skirmishing companies of the enemy are supplied, give them a great advantage over our pickets, and yesterday a Teunessean was shot through the head at the distance of half a mile, and instantly killed.Three Confederate officers passed through Fairfax Court House this morning, en route to Washington, the bearers, it is supposed, of a communication from our Government at Richmond.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Sep 19, 1861
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