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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 43 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 17 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 14 0 Browse Search
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 6 0 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 6 0 Browse Search
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army . 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1861., [Electronic resource] 3 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 26, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 26, 1862., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], $10 reward (search)
ion. It is as follows: Centerville, July 21--P. M.--A most severe and general battle was fought to-day at Bull's Run Bridge. The conflict was most desperate and bloody, lasting over nine hours. The programme of the battle, as stated in my first dispatch, was carried out until the troops met a succession of masked batteries, which were attacked with great vigor and bravery, and successively alarmed and taken, (1) with severe loss of life. Our troops advanced as follows: Col. Richardson, who distinguished himself in the previous engagement with the batteries at Bull's Run, proceeded on the left with four regiments of the 4th brigade, to hold the Federal battery stationed on the hill on the Warrenton road in the vicinity in which the last battle (the Bull's Run battle) was fought. The flank movements were carried out, as described in my first dispatch. of fires from masked batteries, which were opened in every direction. When one was silenced, its place was
The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Funeral oration (search)
A Federal Congressman on the fight at Bull Run. In a letter published in the Baltimore Sun of Saturday, from the Hon. Wm. A. Richardson, member of Congress from Illinois, who professes to be an eye-witness of the scene of the engagement at Bull Run, he states that the action was commenced by Gen. Tyler, of Connecticut, at half-past 1 o'clock on Thursday--that the Michigan, Maine and Wisconsin regiments stood their ground bravely, while the New York Twelfth and Massachusetts regiments run with all their might, throwing away their arms, knapsacks, and in fact everything that impeded their progress. The men say that their officers lack courage and were the first to "take the back track. " It seems that the only regiments who could be relied on in their greatest emergency were composed of foreigners — the New York 69th (Irish,) and the 79 the (Scotch.) The writer gives it as his opinion that Manassas cannot be taken with 50,000 men in two months, and that the North has been greatly