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The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Edward Everett. (search)
Smith arrived with a portion of his division upon the ground. Coming from Winchester, he heard the roar of battle, and without waiting for orders he at once disembarked his men, Col. Elzey's Brigade, and marched hurriedly to our assistance. Col. Kershaw's and Col. Oash's regiments arrived upon the ground at the same moment, and with those four thousand men General Smith promptly took the extreme left and turned the tide of battle. The enemy had so far turned our flank as to have gotten entirely behind us, and nearly 4,000 were marching up to attack us in the rear; seeing this, Gen. Smith, determined to cut them off, and would have done so, but for his misfortune in being shot through the neck with a grape shot just as Col. Kershaw was within twenty yards of him for the purpose of receiving orders. His plan of cutting them off was, consequently, not carried out, and they were enabled to rejoin the main body, hotly pursued by our men. Gen. Jackson's Brigade had been lying for h
The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Northern Boasting. (search)
But we were all too high strung to care much now, and there was only a general impression that it was a sort of fox chase on a very expanded scale. At the Stone Bridge across Bull's Run, (where the fight commenced in the morning,) we overtook Kershaw's Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers, and attached ourselves to his command. In a few moments orders came to send a platoon forward to act as skirmishers in a body of woods through which the road passed. Lieut. Geiger was dispatched forkees and three Georgians, whom they had in custody. At this point, the Major remained until joined by Lieut. Geiger, with his platoon, and finally by Capt. Davis, (with the rest of the company,) who had also been subsequently sent in advance of Kershaw to reconnoitre, and had captured several prisoners. We had scarcely got together before it was announced that the enemy were rallying and planting a battery in the road just in front of us. At this news we scampered into the woods to wait f