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Walton (search for this): chapter 25
f the Fifth and Seventh Alabama, and Fifth Louisiana Volunteers, with four 12-pound howitzers of Walton's battery of the Washington Artillery of New Orleans, and three companies of Virginia cavalry. h Carolina and the Fifteenth and Eighteenth Mississippi Volunteers, with two brass 6-pounders of Walton's battery, and one company of cavalry. The brigade of James Longstreet covered Blackburn's Fordmposed of the First, Eleventh, and Seventeenth Virginia Volunteers, with two brass 6-pounders of Walton's battery. M. L. Bonham's brigade, stationed at Centreville, covered the approaches to Mitchelleventh and Twenty-fourth Virginia, and Seventh Louisiana Volunteers, with three rifled cannon of Walton's battery, held a position in the rear of Ewell's brigade.--Beauregard's Report to Adjutant-Geneboden, Stanard, Wade Hampton. Pendleton, Alburtis of the Shenandoah Army, and portions of Walton's and Rogers's batteries of the Army of the Potomac. Yet they pressed forward, with the batteri
July, 1861 AD (search for this): chapter 25
heater of operations on which the four armies were about to perform. Orders for the advance were given on the 15th, July, 1861. and at half-past 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, Tyler's column, forming the right wing, went forward to Vential orders, dated Headquarters Army of the Potomac, July 20, 1861. McDowell issued specific orders on the 20th, July, 1861. for the advance and method of attack by the three divisions chosen for the work. The troops were supplied with three fighting on the defensive on their side of Bull's Run. The general disposition of the Confederate army on the 21st July 1861. was nearly the same as on the 18th. See note 2 on page 585. The arrival of re-enforcements, and preparations for thd the camps near Washington, which they had left Monument on Bull's Run battle-ground. in high spirits on the 16th, July, 1861. before daylight. Richardson left Centreville at two o'clock in the morning, when all the other troops and batteries h
Pelt (search for this): chapter 25
ailway, and thus sever the most important connection between Beauregard and Johnston. For this purpose, Tyler was to move along the Warrenton Turnpike, and open fire on the Confederate left at the Stone Bridge, while Hunter and Heintzelman, with about fifteen thousand men, should make a circuit by a forest road, cross Bull's Run at fords near Sudley Church, and fall upon the flank and rear of the Confederates at the Stone Bridge, where Colonel Evans was in command, with his Headquarters at Van Pelt's. In the mean time, Richardson's brigade was to be temporarily attached to Miles's division, which was left, as a reserve, at Centreville, with orders to strengthen the intrenchments there, and see that the Confederates did not cross Bull's Run, and, by a flank movement, capture the supplies and ammunition of the Nationals there, and cut off their line of retreat. Richardson kept almost the exact position occupied by him on the 18th during the artillery duel. Fully informed of McDowell
Irvin McDowell (search for this): chapter 25
e soldiers was reported to the officers. General McDowell issued a stringent order, and threatened . The reconnoissance on the 19th satisfied McDowell that an attack on the Confederate front wouldring the artillery duel. Fully informed of McDowell's force and position by spies and traitors, Bime. The orders for an advance and attack by McDowell and Beauregard were dated on the same day. Jteries, and the cavalry moved, accompanied by McDowell, with Heintzelman (whose division commenced tt of the regiment, under the immediate eye of McDowell, and, with a part of Colburn's United States ow all concentrating on the right and rear of McDowell's forces. The woods on his flank and rear wereceived no orders in reply, he supposed that McDowell had been victorious at Manassas, and that the for the same purpose, and Blenker was sent. McDowell himself hastened to the left, where he found fly from the various official Reports of Generals McDowell, Beauregard, and Johnston, and their sub[33 more...]
Ambrose E. Burnside (search for this): chapter 25
ery. The Second Brigade was commanded by Colonel Ambrose E. Burnside, of the Rhode Island Volunteers, and cons village, and the National flag, raised by some of Burnside's Rhode Islanders, soon occupied the place of a Cof-past 9, when the head of Hunter's column, led by Burnside, was crossing at Sudley Church, and the men were fpast 10 before the head of Hunter's column, led by Burnside, came in sight of Evans. The division had rested , poured a destructive fire upon the Nationals. Burnside called for help; and Colonel Andrew Porter, whose with his brigade, that the battle was directed by Burnside, who was ably assisted by Colonel Sprague, the youenaced by these on their right, heavily pressed by Burnside and Sykes on their center, and terribly galled by.s sent to annoy them on the right. The brigade of Burnside, whose ammunition had been nearly exhausted in thethe plateau and its slopes. There was no time for Burnside's rested brigade to come up, nor for Schenck's to
Samuel P. Heintzelman (search for this): chapter 25
See page 402. Third Division.--Colonel Samuel P. Heintzelman, of the Seventeenth United States ore Runyon, and Colonels David Hunter, Samuel P. Heintzelman, and Dixon S. Miles. The Confederate Road; and a portion of the left wing, under Heintzelman, went out from near Alexandria, along the L left at the Stone Bridge, while Hunter and Heintzelman, with about fifteen thousand men, should ma greater than was expected, that Hunter and Heintzelman were. four hours behind the appointed timeforward, and overtook and passed Hunter and Heintzelman. McDowell and his attendants were the firs the movements of the columns of Hunter and Heintzelman from the moment when they crossed Bull's Ruavalry moved, accompanied by McDowell, with Heintzelman (whose division commenced the action here) y doubt whether they were friends or foes. Heintzelman himself was uncertain, and he rode in betweown the forest road traversed by Hunter and Heintzelman in the morning) near the bridge over Cub Ru[8 more...]
July 27th, 1861 AD (search for this): chapter 25
years, and under his roof Grant and Lee signed articles of capitulation early in April, 1865, for the surrender of the Confederate forces under the latter. This severe skirmish was called by the Confederates the battle of Bull's Run, and was claimed by them as a victory. The loss of the combatants was about equal, that of McDowell being seventy-three, and of Beauregard, seventy. Report of Colonel Richardson to General Tyler, July 19, 1861; Report of General Tyler to General McDowell, July 27, 1861; Report of General Beauregard to Adjutant-General Cooper, August, 1861; The C. S. A. and The Battle of Bull's Run: a Letter to an English Friend: by Major J. G. Barnard, who was with Tyler's division. The Nationals lost nineteen killed, thirty-eight wounded, and twenty-six missing; the Confederates lost, according to Beauregard's Report, fifteen killed, fifty-three wounded (several of them mortally), and two missing. The affair at Blackburn's Ford elated the Confederates and depress
James Longstreet (search for this): chapter 25
h Mississippi Volunteers, with two brass 6-pounders of Walton's battery, and one company of cavalry. The brigade of James Longstreet covered Blackburn's Ford. It was composed of the First, Eleventh, and Seventeenth Virginia Volunteers, with two bra]s Ford, midway between Centreville and Manassas Junction; and still another led to Blackburn's Ford, over which General James Longstreet was watching. Toward noon, Tyler went out on a reconnaissance toward Blackburn's Ford, taking with him Richarere enfilading fire came from a concealed battery on a ridge six hundred yards in front of the Ford. In the mean time, Longstreet had called up some re-enforcements from Early's brigade, and the Nationals, greatly outnumbered, withdrew behind Ayres'es to cross Bull's Run at Union Mill Ford, to be ready to support the attack on Centreville. The brigades of Jones and Longstreet were directed to cross at McLean's Ford, for the same purpose; while those of Bonham and Bartow were to cross at Mitche
James S. Wadsworth (search for this): chapter 25
r restraints imposed by the former. In comparison with the same army two years later, McDowell's force appear: little better than a huge mob, with noble instincts, but having no adequate conception of the grave duties laid upon it. The composition of this first great American army was as follows:-- McDowell's Staff.--Captain James B. Fry, Assistant Adjutant-General; Aids-de-camp--First Lieutenant Henry W. Kingsbury, Fifth United States Artillery, and Majors Clarence S. Brown and James S. Wadsworth, New York State Artillery; Acting Inspector-General--Major William H. Wood, Seventeenth United States Infantry; Engineers-Major John G. Barnard and First Lieutenant Frederick F. Prime; Topographical Engineers--Captain Amiel W. Whipple, First Lieutenant Henry L. Abbot, and Second Lieutenant Haldimand S Putnam; Quartermaster's Department-Captain O. H. Tillinghast; Commissary of Subsistence-Horace F. Clark; Surgeon — William S; King; Assistant Surgeon--David L. Magruder. First Division
James B. Fry (search for this): chapter 25
inal virtue of a thorough soldier, obedience, had yet to be acquired. Officers and men, in many cases, had been social companions, and the latter were restive under restraints imposed by the former. In comparison with the same army two years later, McDowell's force appear: little better than a huge mob, with noble instincts, but having no adequate conception of the grave duties laid upon it. The composition of this first great American army was as follows:-- McDowell's Staff.--Captain James B. Fry, Assistant Adjutant-General; Aids-de-camp--First Lieutenant Henry W. Kingsbury, Fifth United States Artillery, and Majors Clarence S. Brown and James S. Wadsworth, New York State Artillery; Acting Inspector-General--Major William H. Wood, Seventeenth United States Infantry; Engineers-Major John G. Barnard and First Lieutenant Frederick F. Prime; Topographical Engineers--Captain Amiel W. Whipple, First Lieutenant Henry L. Abbot, and Second Lieutenant Haldimand S Putnam; Quartermaster's
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