Legacy of the Sabretooth

As General McDowaugh's opponent, His Excellency General Borigard, who was a classmate at West Point, the only difference between them was that he fought one more battle than McDow, and that was the shelling of Fort Sumter.

As for the more than 20,000 soldiers under his command, the difference between them and MacDowell's men is that the service period is more than 90 days, and there is no essential difference between them.

It can be said that this is a battle in which rookies peck at each other, and when the level and number of people on both sides are about the same, the role of intelligence is highlighted.

And this is precisely the advantage that General Borygard has, and after the start of the war, Washington City was not only a mess of aspiring youths, but also full of sympathizers and spies from the South.

And Southern intelligence chief Thomas Jordan managed to develop the greatest achievement of his life: Washington courtesan Ross O'Neal Greenhouse.

Shortly after General McDowaugh's departure, Bohamme, an officer of the Confederate Army, was stationed in the vicinity of the Fairfax County Courthouse near Washington, D.C., to monitor enemy movements.

Monitoring the enemy's movements is a task that cannot be slackened, but people always need to relax, right? On this day, the guards brought a girl from the city.

Bohammu looked at it, although the girl was dressed as a country girl, she was very beautiful, and it must have been the work of the Northern Army, just as he was about to interrogate (while it was hot).

The girl spoke: "My name is Betty, and I have urgent information to give to General Borlegard. Bohammu immediately showed a look of pity, for his other mission was to be ready to welcome the envoys from the city.

Seeing Bohammu's understanding, Betty untied her clip, and her long hair fell like a waterfall, which made Bohammu intoxicated and deeply regretful.

I saw Betty take out a silk bag from the untied hairpin and hand it to Bohammu, who sent the silk bag and quickly handed it over to General Boregaard.

The contents of the silk bag were a complete battle plan for the Northern Army, and even a map used by the Senate Committee on Military Affairs marked the route of the federal forces to attack the Manassas confluence.

General McDowell had no idea that all of his battle plans would be stolen while he stayed at Mrs. Ross's house and worked hard.

And she also got the map used by the Senate Armed Affairs Committee from another of her 'good friends', Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts and chairman of the Senate Armed Affairs Committee.

That is, when General McDowell took his first steps from Washington, all his actions were already in the hands of the Confederate army.

General Borlegard, having received information from Mrs. Ross, immediately sent a telegram to the Southern government in Richmond that MacDowey's troops had departed.

Asked Joe Johnson for reinforcements of 10,000 troops stationed in the Shenandoah Valley, and the answer was that Johnson's reinforcements would arrive immediately.

The reality, however, was that Joe Johnson's forces were pinned down by a large number of federal forces entering Virginia from Maryland in the north.

The troops, led by General Robert Patterson, were closing in on Johnson's Confederate forces. But they didn't really want to engage Johnson, they just wanted to prevent Johnson from leading his troops to reinforce General Bored.

Johnson knew that his troops couldn't beat Patterson, so he played a trick. He sent most of his troops to support Beauret, while sending a small group of elite men to attack Patterson's forces.

Patterson thought that Johnson's entire force was here, so he began to set up camp with peace of mind, preparing for the attack of the Confederate troops.

By the time he finally reacted, Johnson had slipped away and arrived at Manassas with a large force of his own.

And just when the Southern Army was dispatching troops and preparing for the upcoming battle. The situation in the Northern Army was the opposite.

When Federal Forces Commander McDowell led his troops from Arlington, the march was extremely slow because of the hot weather, the dusty roads, and the lack of order and discipline in the troops because of the lack of long training.

Whenever they came across a stream along the way, everyone stopped to wash their faces, and some people left the army without permission to pick fruits on the side of the road. To outsiders, the red-red-green-green soldiers looked more like a Boy Scout for a summer camp than a regular Union army that went to battle.

Most of these soldiers are indeed new recruits, and they are not trained to be physically fit and exhausted at every turn.

As a result, it took them four days to cover the 45-kilometer journey to St. Twey, the last town before Bull Creek.

He was accompanied by a large crowd of onlookers, including parliamentarians, merchants, and civilians, as well as journalists, who marched for miles in horse-drawn carriages with food and champagne. At this time, it was widely believed that this was the only opportunity to watch the battle, and if it was missed, the war would end there.

These strategic situations have not affected Victor for the time being, after all, he is a grassroots officer who only needs to be responsible for killing when he goes to the battlefield, and this happens to be what he is best at.

Still, he paid the price for his previous foodie behavior at the banquet, and a high-ranking officer thought he was eating like a country militiaman.

As a result, Victor and his men were deployed to assist the Brooklyn 14th Militia Regiment in Brooklyn, New York.

The original text of the order is: the militia should stay with the militia!

Indeed, the militiamen from Brooklyn were a unique sight in the Union Army: the uniform standard of Union soldiers at the time was a flat hat (or Hardy's hat) in Prussian blue, a wool tight-fitting jacket (or Prussian blue tuxedo), and trousers in sky blue (or Prussian blue) wool trousers. (It turns out that the U.S. imperialists are the original German sticks.) ）

Both the Southern Army and the Northern Army were basically like this, mainly in blue-gray military uniforms, although there were slight differences, but they were indeed the main style at that time.

As for our Brooklyn 14th Militia Regiment, they wore scarlet flat hats, the top of which was covered with dark navy blue, and the front of the hat had a "14" cockade, and the top of the hat was the letters of each company.

The upper body is dressed in the same way as the federal army of other troops, and is either a Prussian blue tight jacket or a Prussian blue tuxedo.

But the lower half of the body is scarlet trousers (or breeches) made of pure wool and leggings with white trouser belts. Their long red legs became a beautiful sight for the Union Army.

The members of the Brooklyn 14th Regiment also came from a variety of backgrounds, ranging from city workers, clerks, and merchants, to mountain farmers, hunters, and miners.

There are even individuals who live in the South, as well as foreigners. It can be said that the members of the 14th Regiment almost included people from all walks of life in the United States at that time, and the only thing that was not included was professional soldiers.

The arrival of Victor and his reinforced company made up for this only fly in the ointment, and now they also have professional soldiers. Although the commander of these professional soldiers is an amateur.

At this time, the Brooklyn 14th Militia Regiment had a total of 13 companies, they were: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K....

In fact, it can be seen from the name that this is really a fucking militia regiment. Then Victor received his company's number: M.

For some reason, when he saw this letter, he thought of his dear father, Old Clyde, and the wonderful night they had spent in their basement.

Ahem, but although they are a militia group, they have been militarized for many years and have participated in the suppression of the anti-Catholic group "Angel Gabriel".

It can be regarded as a hundred battles, and compared to them, other aspiring young people who have been mobilized are too too young, too simple.

And the patriotic fervor of the regiment was very strong, and when the Confederate rebelled, President Lincoln issued a mobilization order.

People from New York City, New York City, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and other places gathered at the militia recruiting office, and soon the Brooklyn 14th Regiment was formed.

Colonel Alfred Wood sent a telegram to the Washington administration, and his Brooklyn Fourteenth Regiment was ready. (The telegram reads as follows: The rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband.) Careless... Beep _________)

The Colonel Alfred gave a warm welcome to Victor's arrival, after all, the war was about to start, and no one would be surprised by the large number of men under his command.

However, Lieutenant Colonel Bagley on the side of the Fifth Cavalry Regiment was not so happy, after all, he suddenly lost a company under his command, although it was only a temporary deployment, but it also made him feel very uncomfortable.

However, he couldn't refute the reason for the deployment, their Fifth Cavalry Regiment was a small number of elite units with combat experience, and assigning a part of it as the backbone of the recruit unit was the fastest way to form combat effectiveness.

Not long after Victor temporarily joined the Fourteenth Militia Regiment in Brooklyn, an order was given to the troops to go to battle.

Watching a group of improvised rabble pour out of Washington in a haphazard and almost unformed manner reminded Victor of a game he had played before he crossed over: Red Alert 2.

At that time, his favorite thing to do was to play the Soviet Union, explode a lot of mobilized soldiers, and then circle up, and a wave of A passed....

At this time, the army of the Northern Union was quite like a Soviet mobilizer, and it was also a mess rushing towards its own purpose.

The only consolation to Victor was that the Fourteenth Brooklyn Militia Regiment was not in this range, and they lined up in a neat line, with their long red legs and marching in a neat stride aimed at their tactical target: Henry Family Mountain.

The Fourteenth Brooklyn Militia used their performance to conquer Victor's subordinates, who had previously complained about the transfer of a militia regiment.

Then they followed the Brooklyn Fourteenth Regiment with the same neat steps with their blue pants-clad legs, and they could not behave worse than this group of militiamen, after all, the elite also wanted to save face.