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The Daily Dispatch: August 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Contributions for the sick and wounded (search)
dvance against the left flank of the enemy was not made, because orders which were sent by General Beauregard to General Jones were not received by the latter. He, without intention, committed an error in mentioning Gen. Jones' name instead of Gen Ewell's. Gen. Jones did receive orders from Gen. Beauregard to cross Bull Run at McLean's Ford, for the purpose of attacking the enemy upon their left flank, and did actually cross the Run twice on the 21st for that purpose. It was Gen Ewell to whomGen Ewell to whom orders were sent to co-operate with Gen. Jones, who, it is said, did not receive the orders — a melancholy fact, indeed — which compelled Gen. Jones, between 3 and 4 o'clock in the evening, with some 1,800 efficient men, to attack their batteries on the hill, near Blackberry Ford, protected by at least five thousand infantry and a considerable force of cavalry. This attack, made at a moment when their right was already giving way, succeeded in dislodging the enemy, though Gen. Jones' command