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The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1861., [Electronic resource] 5 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], $10 reward (search)
from the breastworks, at the Northwest angle of the fortifications of Manassas Junction. Here we were joined by an acquaintance of your correspondent, Col. Wm. G. Bonner, formerly State Engineer of Georgia, now of the Vicksburg and Shreveport Railroad, who was an old West Pointer and a classmate of Gen. Johnston's and other citement, we had left the Junction entirely unprepared, either in the way of the Commissariat or with glasses to view the distant field, and had it not been for Col. Bonner's forethought, in bringing a powerful opera glass, our party had lost much which through his politeness we were permitted to see. The day was bright and bea spot where the Generals stood. An officer of Gen. Beauregard's staff requested us to leave that hill, and as we moved away a shell burst not seventy feet off. Gen. Bonner calculated with his watch the line taken by the balls to pass us, and made the distance 1¾ miles from the enemy's battery. The enemy no doubt discovered the ho