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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 22: the War on the Potomac and in Western Virginia. (search)
bout six hundred followers, weary, worn, and dispirited, were vainly seeking a way of escape. They had been without food for nearly two days. Seeing no hope of relief, Pegram offered to surrender to McClellan; and on Sunday morning, the 14th, July, 1861. he and his followers were escorted into the camp of the chief at Beverly by some Chicago cavalry. When it was discovered that Garnett had fled, McClellan ordered a hot pursuit. He sent a detachment from his own column, under Captain H. W. where the Fourteenth Indiana, Colonel Kimball, was left. as an outpost. A camp was established at the eastern foot of the mountain, an.d detachments were posted at important points along the eastern slopes of the Alleghanies. On the 19th, July, 1861. McClellan issued an address to his troops, from Huttonsville, telling them that he was more than satisfied with their conduct; that they had annihilated two armies well intrenched among mountain fastnesses; recounted the results of the campaig
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 23: the War in Missouri.-doings of the Confederate Congress. --Affairs in Baltimore.--Piracies. (search)
oncessions were no longer listened to by the opposing parties. The soothing echoes of the last Peace Convention, held at Frankfort, in Kentucky, on the 27th of May, See page 460. were lost in the din of warlike preparations; and it was evident that the great question before the people could only be settled by the arbitrament of the sword, to which the enemies of the Republic had appealed. As we look over the theater of events connected with the secession movement at the beginning of July, 1861, we perceive that the Insurrection had then become an organized Rebellion, and was rapidly assuming the dignity and importance of a Civil War. The conspirators had formed a confederacy, civil and military, vast in the extent of its area of operations, strong in the number of its willing and unwilling supporters, and marvelous in its manifestations of energy hitherto unsuspected. It had all the visible forms of regular government, modeled after that against which the conspirators had revol
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 25: the battle of Bull's Run, (search)
heater of operations on which the four armies were about to perform. Orders for the advance were given on the 15th, July, 1861. and at half-past 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, Tyler's column, forming the right wing, went forward to Vential orders, dated Headquarters Army of the Potomac, July 20, 1861. McDowell issued specific orders on the 20th, July, 1861. for the advance and method of attack by the three divisions chosen for the work. The troops were supplied with three fighting on the defensive on their side of Bull's Run. The general disposition of the Confederate army on the 21st July 1861. was nearly the same as on the 18th. See note 2 on page 585. The arrival of re-enforcements, and preparations for thd the camps near Washington, which they had left Monument on Bull's Run battle-ground. in high spirits on the 16th, July, 1861. before daylight. Richardson left Centreville at two o'clock in the morning, when all the other troops and batteries h