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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 14: the great Uprising of the people. (search)
etin-boards were crowded by an excited multitude, as dispatch after dispatch came announcing the progress of the conflict. At an early hour on Saturday, we left the city in a barouche for Jackson's battle-field Washington Artillery. below. We passed the Headquarters of the celebrated Washington Artillery, See page 181. who were afterward in the battle at Bull's Run. They were on parade, in the uniform in which they afterward appeared on the field. We rode down the levee as far as Villere's, where Pakenham and other British officers had their Headquarters in 1815; and returning, stopped to visit and sketch the remains of the famous old battle. ground. At a little past two o'clock in the afternoon, while sitting on the base of the unfinished monument commemorative of the conflict, making a drawing of the plain of Chalmette, where it occurred, we heard seven discharges of heavy guns at the city — the number of the States in the Confederacy. Fort Sumter is doubtless gone, I s