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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., XXXIII. East Virginia—Bull Run. (search)
l stagnation and dearth of employment, had volunteered under a firm conviction that there would be no serious fighting; that the Rebels were not in earnest; that there would be a promenade, a frolic, and, ultimately, a compromise, which would send every one home, unharmed and exultant, to receive from admiring, cheering thousands the guerdon of his valor. Hence, some regiments were very badly officered, and others gave way and scattered, or fled, just when they were most needed. IX. Col. D. J. Miles, a Marylander, commanding the 5th (reserve) division, was drunk throughout the action, and playing the buffoon; riding about to attract observation, with two hats on his head, one within the other. As, however, he was pretty certainly a traitor, and was not ordered to advance, it is hardly probable that his drunkenness did any serious damage, save as it disgusted and disheartened those whose lives were in his hands. No one who did not share in the sad experience will be able to rea
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), Battle of Bull Run. (search)
, on the 21st ult. Pursuant to the orders of Col. Miles, the brigade advanced from the camp and tookst. The Fifth Division, under the command of Col. Miles, consisting of the First and Second Brigadese mile south of Centreville. At this point Col. Miles gave me directions to assume the command of o stop, about two hours later. As soon as Col. Miles left me again in command, I sent back the bry-first, and two of the Sixteenth were, by Colonel Miles' order, thrown forward to feel the enemy'sned immediately to my command and found that Col. Miles had been superseded, and received an order f Richardson's brigade (temporarily attached to Miles's division) on Blackburn's Ford, the rest of tt. F. E. Prime, to the First Division, under Col. Miles. They have all been most active and zealoduties satisfactorily. I observed Acting Assistant-Surgeon Miles busily engaged in dressing woundeds, which was intended for the divisions of Colonels Miles and Hunter, and the late arrival of the ot[12 more...]