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Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death., Chapter 14: the baptism of blood. (search)
Chapter 14: the baptism of blood. The first war bulletin how Richmond received it practical result of Bethel earnest work in Government bureaux thunder from a clear sky shadows follow Rich Mountain Carthago delenda! popular comparison of fighting qualities the on-to-richmond! Clangor the southern pulse Beware of Johnston's Retreats I Bull run the day before Manassas waiting! On the afternoon of June 10, 1861, Richmond was thrown into a commotion-though of a different nature-hardly exceeded by that exciting Sabbath, Pawnee Sunday. Jubilant, but agitated crowds collected at the telegraph offices, the hotels and the doors of the War Department, to get the news of the first fight on Virginia soil. That morning the enemy had pressed boldly forward, in three heavy columns, against Magruder's lines at Big Bethel Church. He had been sharply repulsed in several distinct charges, with heavy loss, by D. H. Hill's regiment — the first North Carolina, and two guns o