Pope at once took the bold course, and marched on Jackson, but the elusive Stonewall was gone.

They tramped about in the heat and dust in search of him.

One portion of the army including Colonel Winchester's regiment turned off in the afternoon toward a place of a few houses called Warrenton.

It lay over toward the Gap through which Jackson had gone and while the division ten thousand strong did not expect to find anything there it was nevertheless ordered to look.
Dick rode by the side of his colonel ready for any command, but the mystery, and uncertainty had begun to weigh upon him again.

It seemed when they had the first news that Jackson was behind them, that they had a splendid opportunity to turn upon him and annihilate him before Lee could come.