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The Daily Dispatch: August 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway (search)
ights. They gave way to the right and left, when an open carriage, containing three gentlemen, attended by an escort, made its appearance. The entire army saluted by presenting arms, and Gen. Longstreet rode up to the carriage, and, having dismounted, saluted the Prince, for it was the veritable Prince Napoleon. The three gentlemen got out of the carriage, and the Prince uncovered. On his right hand stood General Johnston, the commander of our army, and on his left General Longstreet, Col. Preston, and several other distinguished military men. As the weather was excessively hot, and the men had been standing nearly three hours in the sun, the Prince very considerately (likely more on his than our account) proposed that only one regiment should go through the form, as it would have taken several hours for that immense body of men to have passed. Gen. Johnston requested Gen. Longstreet to pass one of his regiments in review, and he did the 1st Virginia Regiment that honor. Smith's