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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 1 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., chapter 7.51 (search)
l field's, sir, was my answer. General field! I don't know him. perhaps not, as you are evidently in the wrong place. he at once turned to retreat, spurring his horse, and I gave the alarm. A soldier of the 47th Virginia (S. Brooke Rollins) now came forward and seized the bridle of the horse, saying to the rider, not so fast. the captured officer proved to be General McCall, of the Pennsylvania Reserves. the staff-officers were fired upon while attempting to ride back, and Captain H. J. Biddle, McCall's adjutant-general, was instantly killed. Owing to the darkness the others escaped.--Editors. but for the succoring forces, which should have been engaged by Jackson, Huger, Holmes, and Magruder, Mc-call would have been entirely dislodged by the first attack. All of our other forces were within a radius of 3 miles, and in easy hearing of the battle, yet of the 50,000 none came in to cooperate. （Jackson should have done more for me than he did. When he wanted me at the Secon