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John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 16: the retreat. (search)
the main battle, the Confederate commander sent orders to Jones' brigade to cross Bull Run and make a demonstration. At about four o'clock, Jones, with his three regiments, crossed at McLean's Ford, and endeavored, by a flank movement, to capture Hunt's battery stationed with Davies' brigade. Davies quietly watched the oncoming rebel regiments, rearranged his lines, and held his fire in reserve till the enemy were deploying to form line of battle. They had advanced within five hundred yards, only, however, to find themselves embarrassed by woods and broken ground. In this situation and dilemma Davies ordered Hunt's battery of six guns to open upon them with grape and canister. The rebel official report characterizes it as a murderous shower, and, no doubt, correctly. It scattered the attacking column as if by enchantment; in thirty minutes there was not a soldier of them to be seen, and Jones modestly reports a loss in the affair of fourteen killed and sixty-two wounded. It w
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Appendix A. (search)
unded and captured), Capt. James Kelly 79th New York, Colonel James Cameron (killed). 2d Wisconsin, Lieut.-Colonel Henry W. Peck. Company E, 3d U. S. Artillery, Captain R. B. Ayres. Fourth Brigade. Colonel Israel B. Richardson. 1st Massachusetts, Colonel Robert Cowdin. 12th New York, Colonel Ezra L. Walrath. 2d Michigan, Major Adolphus W. Williams. 3d Michigan, Colonel Daniel McConnell. Company G, 1st U. S. Artillery, Lieutenant John Edwards. Company M, 2d U. S. Artillery, Captain Henry J. Hunt. second Division. （1.) Colonel David Hunter (wounded). （2.) Colonel Andrew Porter. First Brigade. Colonel Andrew Porter. 8th New York (militia), Colonel George Lyons. 14th New York (militia), Colonel Alfred M. Wood (wounded and captured), Lieut.-Colonel E. B. Fowler. 27th New York (militia), Colonel H. W. Slocum (wounded), Major J. J. Bartlett. Battalion U. S. Infantry, Major George Sykes. Battalion U. S. Marines, Major John G. Reynolds. Battalion U. S. Cavalry, Major I