Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-07-30

Ellsworth = famous New York Fire Z1uaves
were terribly cut up. A gentleman who went
over the battle field to-day, says be counted
nearly 200 of their dead upon about three
acres of ground.
stated in my letter of yesterday that an
important order from Gen. Beauregard to
Gen. Ewell had been miscarried; and endea-
vored to explain to you how we might have
destroyed the enemy, and captured possibly
half of his army. II the order had been receiv-
ed and carried out. This is one OF the errors
into which | fell 1t would now seem that
the order was delivered General Ewell
proceeded, after the lapse of one hour, to ex-
ecute it-that having moved a part of the
way to where be was ordered, ne halted for
half an hour, and then returned to his camp
that after another hour be again started his
column in the direction he had been ordered,
and had nearly reached the enemy's rear
when fresh orders came to him to hasten 10
the relief of our left, where the battle had
been raging so long. and where be finally ar
rived just as the fight ended. The last order
would never have been given if he had obey
ed the first; for if he had attacked the enc
my rear early in the day as he was directed
to do. we should have needed no reinforce
terry. but shall refrain from further remark,
except to say that if Beauregard's orders had
been carried ont, the Federal army would
have been destroyed and the war virtually
ended.
There was another error in my letter of
yesterday in relation to the part which the la
mented Barlow and the It'll and 9Th Georgia
Regiments took in the fight. Gallant as rep
resented their conduct to be, it now appears
hat nnlu hol fol-
Brigade occupied the extreme left along the
line of Bull Run. Next came General Bees
brigade, and next to his Col. BartOw's, and
alter his Gen. Jackson's. The enemy opened
battery upon Gen. Evans by way of feint,
but continued to push on his flank movement
Gen. Bee was dispatched to hold him in check;
but so great were the numbers opposed to
him, that he was gradually forced back while
the enemy slowly but surely advanced along
our flank. 1t was at this point Colonel Bar
tOw's brigade was ordered up. Meanwhile a
battery of six guns had been planted to our
left to protect the steady march of the FEEDER
al column, and to drive back our forces as
they endeavored to head it off. As Col Bar
tow was proceeding to take bis position, he
met Gen. Beauregard, who told him that
everything depended upon his taking the
position to which he had been ordered, check
Ing the advance of the enemy and silencing
the battery if possible. Upon this bloody
duty he Immediately started at the head of
the heroic Eighth. He was exposed to gall
ing lire, for nearly an hOur.fr which his regi-
ment suffered terribly. His horse was killed
under him by one ball, while his sword was shi-
Vered to pieces by another. His horse came
near upon falling upon Captain Dawson, of
the Stephens Light Guards. who behaved with
great gallantry as did his whole company.
AT length it become necessary to retire the
Eighth, SO much had it suffered, in order to
give 1t time To reform its line. At this point
Col. Barlow brought up the Seventh, which
mad been ordered to lie fat upon the ground
until call for. During this time the enemys
lines continued to stretch away to the left
and gradually to force US back, when Gen.
jackson was ordered to bring his brigade
into position. Placing himself at the head of
the Seventh, and taking the colors in his own
hands, (the color bearer having been wound
ed, not killed as represented,) Col. Barlow
proceeded again to occupy the position 10
which he had been ordered. He had pro-
cured another horse, and was not on foot
when he fell as | stated yesterday. The Sew
enth was exposed to the same raking fire
from which the Eighth had suffered SO much,
though not for so long time. Indeed, the
fighting along the entire line in this part of
the field was terrific. 1t was here that the
fortunes OF the day vibrated first to one side
and then TO the other, and nothing but the
almost superhuman exertions of the Confed-
crate troops gave us the victory. You will
be glad TO learn that even the prisoners
taken from the enemy pay the highest tribute
to the Georgia Brigade. They say they never
saw men fight as they did, and when told that
there were only two regiments of them, the
were utterly astonished, for, judging by the
terrible execution of our muskets they had
supposed them to number four times as many
passed over that part of the field the night
the battle was fought, in search of Bartow's
body, aud the heaps of the dead on the enc
my's side as seen by the fitful moonlight and
the groans and cries that every where sa-
luted my ears, told too plainly that good old
Georgia had that day dealt giants blow at
the head of the oppressors.
The 9TH, aided by the Sth, which had been
partially restored to order, continued to hold
their position with varying fortunes, and
never did quit the field until the battle was
won. Barlow had promised Gen. Beaure-
gard to maintain his position, and he did it
as long as he lived, and the Brigade did it
after he had fallen. And the result was the
capture OF the battery (Sherman's) that had
decimated our forces by its fire. and the final
rout OF the adversary. To no two regiments
on the field is the country more Indebted
than to the glorious 18th and 9th, from Geor-
gia. Every man was a liOn-hearted hero, and
every company wall of fire.