Note 20 — Chapter XVI · GROVETON AND THE SECOND MANASSAS
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The order, dated 2 a.m., August 25, was to the following effect:— “1. Sigel’s Corps to march from Gainesville to Manassas Junction, the right resting on the Manassas railroad. “2. Reynolds to follow Sigel. “3. King to follow Reynolds. “4. Ricketts to follow King; but to halt at Thoroughfare Gap if the enemy threatened the pass. King was afterwards, while on the march, directed to Centreville by the Warrenton–Alexandria road.”