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Dispatch to the Associated Press.
Washington, Monday, July 22.
After the latest information was received from Centreville at 7 ½ o’clock last night, a series of events took place in the intensest degree disastrous.
Many confused statements are prevalent, but enough is known to warrant the statement that we have suffered in a degree which has cast a gloom over the remnants of the Army, and excited the deepest melancholy throughout Washington.
The carnage is tremendously high on both side, and on ours it is represented as frightful. We were advancing and taking the masked batteries gradually but surely, and driving the enemy towards Manassas Junction, when the enemy seemed to have been reinforced by Gen. Johnston, who, it is understood, took command, and immediately commenced driving us back, when a panic among our troops suddenly occurred and a regular stampede took place.
Citation: New York Times. 23 July 1861. Gift of Steven and Susan Raab. AN .N5682