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John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 15: Bull Run. (search)
his Rhode Island battery, and Sykes' battalion of regulars was sent to strengthen his left. By this time Hunter had sent Porter's brigade into the fields to the right of the Sudley road, where Griffin's battery could engage the rebel field-pieces; H the very beginning of the action, compelling his retirement from the front, and devolving the command of his division on Porter. McDowell, who came upon the field by way of Sudley Ford as the battle began, had already sent back word to Tyler to advancing on the left toward the Robinson hill. Sherman was moving diagonally across the centre of the morning's field. Porter's still aggressive brigade was pushing down the Sudley road. The compact brigades of Franklin and Willcox were coming t Howard's brigade, held back as a reserve, was not yet at hand. McDowell's effective force consisted of the brigades of Porter, Franklin, Willcox, and Sherman, a total of fourteen regiments, but several of which were already seriously demoralized;
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 16: the retreat. (search)
began moving from the field. The commander yielded to necessity, made the best dispositions he could to cover the retreat, and passed the word to reassemble in the old camps at Centreville, not doubting that he could there make a rally. The way thither by the Warrenton turnpike was open and straight; the distance four and a half miles. But, through the perversity of fate, each detachment now retreated by the same road over which it had come. Thus the bulk of the army — the brigades of Porter, Burnside, Franklin, Willcox, and Howard-went back over the long detour of ten miles round by Sudley Ford; these had with them, as yet, two batteries — a total of ten field-pieces; for only the batteries of Ricketts and Griffin were lost in the main battle. Sherman's brigade, on the other hand, marched eastward, over the ground of the morning's conflict, and recrossed Bull Run at the ford, half a mile above the stone bridge, by which they had approached. Keyes' brigade, becoming aware of
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Appendix A. (search)
dolphus W. Williams. 3d Michigan, Colonel Daniel McConnell. Company G, 1st U. S. Artillery, Lieutenant John Edwards. Company M, 2d U. S. Artillery, Captain Henry J. Hunt. second Division. （1.) Colonel David Hunter (wounded). （2.) Colonel Andrew Porter. First Brigade. Colonel Andrew Porter. 8th New York (militia), Colonel George Lyons. 14th New York (militia), Colonel Alfred M. Wood (wounded and captured), Lieut.-Colonel E. B. Fowler. 27th New York (militia), Colonel H. W. Slocum (Colonel Andrew Porter. 8th New York (militia), Colonel George Lyons. 14th New York (militia), Colonel Alfred M. Wood (wounded and captured), Lieut.-Colonel E. B. Fowler. 27th New York (militia), Colonel H. W. Slocum (wounded), Major J. J. Bartlett. Battalion U. S. Infantry, Major George Sykes. Battalion U. S. Marines, Major John G. Reynolds. Battalion U. S. Cavalry, Major I. N. Palmer. Company D, 5th U. S. Artillery, Captain Charles Griffin. Second Brigade. Colonel Ambrose E. Burnside. 2d New Hampshire. Col. Gilman Marston (wounded), Lieut.- Col. Frank S. Fiske. 1st Rhode Island, Major Joseph P. Balch. 2d Rhode Island (with battery), Colonel John S. Slocum (killed), Lieut.-Colonel Frank Wheaton.
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Index. (search)
onel, 147 Peirpont, F. H., Governor, 145 Pensacola, 38, 79 Pennsylvania, Military Department of, 155 Philippi, 143 et seq.; battle of, 144, 146 et seq. Phillips, Wendell, 76 Pickens, Fort, at Pensacola, 16, 38, 51, 53 Pickens, Franois W., Governor of South Carolina, 5, 32; demands surrender of Fort Sumter, 35, 56 et seq., 59 Pierce, ex-President, 76 Pillow, General, 133, 134 Pinckney, Castle, 20; seizure of, 32 Polk, General, Leonidas, 134 et seq. Porter, General, Andrew, 174 Porter, General, Fitz-John, 157, 166 Porterfield, Colonel, 142 et. seq., 146 Potomac River, 126 Price, Sterling, 121 et seq., 124 Provisional Congress of the rebel States, 37, 39 et seq. Pulaski, Fort, 80 R. Rebellion, the beginning of, 1; first formal proposal of, 26 Relay House, 90 Richardson, General J. B., 174, 178 Richmond, 92; Confederate seat of government transferred to, 169 Rich Mountain, 147, 151, 153 Ricketts, Captain, 188, 191,