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The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1862., [Electronic resource] 8 0 Browse Search
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is odds, scarcely credible, our advance position was still for a while maintained, and the enemy's ranks constantly broken and shattered under the scorching fire of our men; but fresh regiments of the Federalists came upon the field, Sherman's and Keye's brigades of Tyler's division, as is stated in their reports, numbering over 6,000 bayonets, which had found a passage across the Run about 800 yards above the Stone Bridge, threatened our right. Heavy losses had now been sustained on our si confidently down on our position, regiment after regiment of the best equipped men that ever took the field — according to their own official history of the day — was formed of Colonels Hunter's and Heintzleman's divisions, Colonels Sherman's and Keye's brigades of Tyler's division, and of the formidable batteries of Ricketts, Griffin, and Arnold regulars, and Second Rhode Island, and two Dahlgren howitzers — a force of over 20,000 infantry, seven companies of regular cavalry, and twenty-four p<
fields of the Degan farm, and rear ward, in extreme disorder, in all available directions, towards Bull Run. The rout had now become general and complete. About the time that Elzey and Early were entering into action, a column of the enemy, Keye's brigade of Tyler's division, made its way across the turnpike between Bull Run and the Robinson House, under cover of a wood and brow of the ridges, apparently to turn my right, but was easily repulsed by a few snots from Latham's battery, now u's brigade — Tyler's division — suffered, in killed, wounded, and missing, 609--that is, about 18 per cent. of the brigade. A regiment of Franklin's brigade — Gorman's — lost 21 per cent. Griffin's (battery) loss was thirty per cent., and that of Keye's brigade, which was so handled by its commander as to be exposed to only occasional volleys from our troops, was at least 10 per cent. To these facts and the repeated references in the reports of the more reticent commanders, to the "murderous"