Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-08-01
Incidents of the Fight at Manassas
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shown toward the fcilcriu tTO0pS--lndecd,
one Of the rebel prisoners captured by the
| New York Seycnly-iirst Regiment, stated
that they had positive orders to show. no
quarter. 10 any one. A large number oiour
wounded soldiom were run through with
bayonets as they lay bleeding on the field of
battlG--and particularly was this done to the
Fire. Iouavcs, on whom they seemed TO have
particular spite. We have heard Of mnny
other instances in which ambnlances contain
| ing wounded men were fred upon.
The charge upon our wounded and flying
men by the enemy's Black Horse Cavalry,
| Capt. Asaph, Of Alcxandria-ofw which Wise
has 50 much b6asted--is an act well calcula.
ted to cover the Southern name with shame
and disgrace forever. As they advanced to.
ward the Fire Xouaves, they were met with
a heavy fire by the gallant baud, when they
fshoutcd out 10 the Louaves that they had
made mistake that they were shooting their
own iriends--at the same time displaying
the stars and stripes. a number Of the
Iouayos, thinking a mistake might have
been made started to their relief, when { g
tilg was thrown down and a terrific sortie
made upon them. But their treachery met
with swift and terrible .retribution. The
muskets of the Xouaves were again turned
upon them, and they were fairly cut to pieces,
only six Of. them being left out of six hun
dred. .r.
The ensign of the First Rhode Island
Regiment was shot throuRh the head and
killed during the early part of the engage
ment, when brave young fellow, belonging
to the same regiment, sprang forward, seized
the colors, and waved them in the air. A
minute later, he too fell dead to the ground,
pierced by bullet. vow. "lI'
During the engagement, Gov. Sprague,
who was always in the thickest of the fight,
had two horses shot from under him. Each
time, as he fell to the ground, he would
coolly take up his carbine and bring rebel
to the ground
life. The bullets were constantly whzzing
past him, some of them even passing through
his hat; and yet he escaped without a
scratch l,<l---l t--.'-''
The Fire Xouaves advanced to the charge
with deafening choers for the Uniou, and
were exposed to the calling fire of the
LouisianaHouaves, and also to the attack
Of the rebel Black Horse--all Of which they
stood with Il heroism of which the history
of the world presents few parallels. At each
fire, as they would perceive the rebels fall.
they would exclaim, Ellsworth. "
The color-sergeant of the Second Maine
Regiment, W. 3. Dean, and who bore the
flag presented to the regiment by the ladies
of California was killed with the flag in his
hands. A. V. Moore, Company X, one of
the color guard, was severely wounded. The
flag was taken possession Of by the rebels,
but was finally regained after a desperate
struggle. ... ....
A poor little drummer boy. was cut com
pletely in two by canister shot which
struck him Just under the arms. \ piercing
""Oh 7, emitted in childish treble, the sol
diers who were near him say, was sound
that will ring in their ears for life.
Among the disasters Of the day were two
very serious ones from the firing into each
other, by mistake, of our own regiments. =
The Eighth New York Regiment was badly
cut up thus by either the Fourteenth or
Twenty-fith Regiments. The Sixty-ninth
New York Regiment had one company de-
stroyed almost to man by fire from our
own forces ~
Unfortunate as were these disasters TO lis,
they were far more than counterbalanced by
the heavy fire poured into the Secessionists
by their own batteries at various times dur
ing the day.
Lieutenant Colonel Elliott of the Seventy
Ninth Regiment had horse shot from un-
der him. .ffI
Lieutenant Colonel Haggerty of the New
York Sixty-Ninth is believed to have been
the first man killed. He was good officer
anda brave man. When this regiment went
into action, they threw away their coats, and
some Of them their shoes, so as to be unen-
numbered. AS they charged on the enemy,
everything gave way before them. They
have covered themselves with glory.
Just as the Federal troops We're about to
retreat, Colonel Heintzelman rode up to
where the Louaves We're, and asked them to
follow him; exclaiming, "My brave Iouaves,
you We done well, - when one of them replied,
! 'Heintzelman, you are brave man, and we
would follow you as soon as any man, but
we will not be cut up this way. We have seen
a brave Colonel, but not General p"
A correspondent of the Philadelphia In
quirer writes q &
The officers who took Mr.. Pryor prisoner
say that among the other prisoners taken
was very badly wounded rebel officer, who
wore the eagle Of Colonel on his shoulder
strap. He appeared to have got in advance
of his regiment and got separated from them
and so cut off. His left arm had been shat
tered above the elbow, and the useless mem
Der was dangling in his coat sleeve. He was
also bleeding profusely from wound in
the side, yet waving his sword in the air,
and would not give up until surrounded, and
big fellow of one of the Maine regiments
rurhed up to him, threw down his own gun
and clasped the officer around the body
His sword then dropped from hisgrasp, and
he sank upon the ground The first words
he said were, "What fools you Yankees are,
to attack us with such a handful Of men. y
why" replied his captors show many
aslS. spStya, ''besides-wS here bis
81 failed5f ne sighed heavily, the blood
ypin his side in torrent, he called
1c1 ) Mint tone, ''Emmass Emma, ,,-Fe-
peating the name twice, stretched out his
limbs and expired. He was very hand
some man, about thirty-fve years Of age.
From hints dropped by several prisoners,
and from the disposition of Beauregard' !
forces it seems to have been part OF his
plan on Sunday, to have johnson come
down with part of his column as far as the
Bull s Run Mountain and with another
part down the turnpike from Winchester tC
Aldie; and then, while Beauregard was en-
gaging Mcdowell S whole army atBull' Run
Johnston to make a forced march on thu
, right flank of Mcdowell, by way of Fairfax
) Vienna, and Balls Gross Roads, and ther
fall unOn his rear from Halifax, and iGantre