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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)
ours in the flanking divisions reaching the point at which the battle was to begin. Gen. Tyler, in front of Stone Bridge, opened with his artillery at 6 1/2 A. M., eliciting no reply; and it was three hours later when Hunter's advance, under Col. Burnside, crossed at Sudley Spring; his men, thirsty with their early march that hot July morning, stopping as they crossed to drink and fill their canteens. Meantime, every movement of our forces was made manifest to Beauregard, watching them from t the clouds of dust that rose over their line of march; and regiment after regiment was hurried northward by him to meet the imminent shock. No strength was wasted by him upon, and scarcely any notice taken of, our feint on his right; but, when Burnside's brigade, after crossing at Sudley, had marched a mile or so through woods down the road on the right of Bull Run, and come out into a clear and cultivated country, stretching thence over a mile of rolling fields down to Warrenton turnpike, he
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., Analytical Index. (search)
; causes of the disaster, 547 to 554; Gen. Scott's failure to send force enough, etc., 550; evil of short enlistments, 551; 552; consternation of the North, 552-3; 618. Burnett, Henry C., of Ky., 304; 496; 555; becomes a member of the Rebel Congress and a Senator on the same day, 617. Burnett, L. W., of N. J., letter from Gov. Price to, 439. Burnett, Thos. L., of Ky., Rebel Congress, 617. Burns, Anthony, the case of, 215; 220. Burns, Wm., makes a speech at Baltimore, 462. Burnside, Col., at Bull Run, 541. burrow, B., of Ark., in Dem. Convention, 315. Burt, Col., (Rebel,) killed at Ball's Bluff, 624. Burt, Gen. Armistead, Of S. C., 196; 378. Burton, Gov. Wm., of Del., Message, 350; 460-61. Butler, Andrew P., of S. C., denounces Clay's Compromise measures, 205; 299. Butler, Pierce, of S. C., remarks on the adoption of the Constitution, 45, 47. Butler, Gen. Benjamin F., in the Charleston Convention, 311; 318; arrives in Maryland with the 8th Mass.,