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John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 13: Patterson's campaign. (search)
ed down an absurd rumor about the enemy being forty thousand strong, without taking any efficient means to ascertain its correctness. And so lifeless and inefficient had the whole army become under such influences and management, that not till July 20th did Patterson learn the humiliating fact that he had wrecked the fair military reputation of a lifetime by permitting the enemy to escape through utterly inexcusable lack of energy and want of judgment. And if that reflection could be still fus at Piedmont, the nearest station of the Manassas Gap Railroad, and embarking here in cars, seven regiments were in Beauregard's camp, at Manassas, that afternoon. Johnston himself, with another detachment, arrived at Manassas at noon of Saturday, July 20th; and most of the remainder of his force reached the battle-field of Bull Run in the nick of time to take a decisive part in that famous conflict, about three o'clock on Sunday, July 21st. It was these nine thousand men of Johnston's army
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 14: Manassas. (search)
may at once be deducted; it was left behind to guard his communications, its most advanced regiment being seven miles in rear of Centreville. McDowell's actual moving column may therefore be said to have consisted of 28,568 From this number it is entirely just to make yet another deduction. The period of enlistment of the Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment, and of Captain Va-rian's Battery of (New York) Light Artillery having expired, they were dis-charged by official order at Centreville, July 20th, the day before the battle. It will thus be seen that, instead of the thirty thousand he asked for, McDowell had, perhaps, less than twenty-eight thousand men, with forty-nine guns; and official reports show that, instead of the thirty-five thousand rebels he expected to meet at Manassas, there were on the field thirty-two thousand men, with fifty-seven guns-less than his estimate, but about four thousand more than his own army. men, including artillery, a total of forty-nine guns, and
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 15: Bull Run. (search)
regard's left. If the stone bridge were blown up, the engineers had timbers ready to repair it. The division of Miles should remain in reserve at Centreville, and the brigade of Richardson continue to threaten Blackburn's Ford. In the rebel camp, the Confederate commanders were at the same time equally intent on a scheme of their own to attack and surprise McDowell. No sooner had Johnston arrived at Manassas with the second detachment of the Army of the Shenandoah, about noon of Saturday, July 20th, than Beauregard explained to him the character and course of Bull Run, and the situation of the five principal fords behind which his various brigades were posted; and since a practicable road from each of these five fords converged upon Centreville, he proposed a simultaneous advance and attack on the Union army, in its camps, early Sunday morning. Johnston, who now as ranking officer assumed command, adopted Beauregard's plan. Part of the Army of the Shenandoah had arrived bef