CHAPTER X.
NEWS OF THE BATTLE AT ROCKLAND.
Great Battle at Manassas!
Total Rout of the Federal Army!
3,000 killed and as many more taken prisoners!
Fire Zouaves all cut to pieces!
Only three or four escape alive!
N. Y. 13th completely riddled!!!
Sherman’s Battery, and hosts of guns in the hands of the Rebels!
Frightful Panic at Washington!
The Capitol in imminent danger!
Gen. Scott in convulsions, the President crazy, and Seward threatened with softening of the brain!
Women and children fleeing for their lives!
Beauregard marching on with 500,000 men!
The Baltimoreans in ecstasies, and the Philadelphians in despair!
Such were some of the exaggerated reports which ran like lightning through the streets of Rockland on the first arrival of the news, throwing the people into a g
