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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Eppa Hunton at the battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861. (search)
usting you to act for me as commissary and quartermaster for the time being. He sent Sergeant Amos Slaymaker, Private Hansbrough and four others whose names have escaped my memory, to my house witt Sudley Ford. He had a field-glass, small, but a fairly good one. Exactly at sunset he, Sergeant Slaymaker and myself discovered by the use of the glass eighteen or twenty blue-coat infantry insidenemy to follow. We were on this road, in a direct line, a mile and a half distant from them. Slaymaker sent information to the Colonel at once, and he (Colonel Hunton) sent word to General Beauregard by the same messenger. Slaymaker held his post until the advance of Tyler's division drove him from it. I remained at home until the infantry advanced to within three hundred yards of me, and retHill to get out of harm's way. Taking into consideration the fact that Colonel Hunton got Sergeant Slaymaker's report at 7:30 A. M., and that the battle was on before 10 A. M., I cannot reconcile the