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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.12 (search)
ted into the regular cavalry service, and permission was given to recruit as a battalion. At the battle of Bull Run the Black Horse won its first spurs. Sir William Russell, who represented the London Times as war correspondent, wrote such a graphic and amusing account of the terror which the black horses of the Virginians inspired, that he afterward became known in both armies by the sobriquet of Bull Run Russell. In the crowd of northern civilians who went from Washington to view the first great battle on Virginia soil was a lady with an opera-glass, writes Russell. When an unusually heavy discharge raised the current of her blood, she exclaimed:Russell. When an unusually heavy discharge raised the current of her blood, she exclaimed: This is splendid! Oh, my! Is not that first-rate? I guess we will be in Richmond this time to-morrow. Continuing, the English chronicler says: The politicians who had come out to see the triumph of the Union arms, exclaimed: We have them whipped at all points. We have taken all their batteries. They are re