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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the first conflict. (search)
he line of Bull Run, since the 17th, in the positions we have indicated; the other two, those of Holmes and Ewell, were held in reserve. It was agreed that Johnston's troops should come to reinforce ition of his army seemed to have drawn upon it. He had posted the first division, consisting of Holmes's and Ewell's brigades, on his extreme right at Union Mills; the second, comprising those of Jonline of Bull Run. At half-past 10 o'clock the Confederate general had ordered the brigades of Holmes and Early and half of Bonham's to reinforce Evans's, while the other troops posted along the rivyond the Sudeley and Manassas road. A portion of Cocke's and Bonham's brigades and the whole of Holmes's thus arrived successively, and increased the Confederate forces concentrated at that point to mained until then upon the line of Bull Run, came up to complete the rout of the Federal left. Holmes pressed the centre. In the midst of this confusion, the battalion of regulars was almost the on