Halleck, getting control of the first, while General McClellan drove out the Confederates from the second. In the southwest the Confederates had got possession of the Mississippi from New Orleans to Columbus, Kentucky, by building forts on the river banks. They were making preparations to do the same on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, and their intention was, if possible, to get the entire control of Kentucky besides. "On to Rich 323. The Battle of Bull Run. The cry at the South was, "On to Washington!" It was answered by the cry of the North, mond!" Beaure gard had taken up his position at Manassas Junction on Bull Run.' There he could both protect the Confederate capital and threaten Washington. He had an army of about 30,000. General McDowell in command, in the field, of the Union forces, had 25 SCALE OF MILES 75 100 about the same army, as President Lincoln said, was as "green" as the other. McDowell advanced, not because he was ready, or because General Scott 1 Run: a small stream or creek, |