Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-30

- FROM Tie Richmond ExaminerI July &c.
Two trains arrived in this city yesterday evening
from Manassas bringing together one hundred and
seventy sick snd wounded soldiers, among whom
| were ten or dozen Yankees. The only thing par
ticulary noticeable among our wounded is TIE fire.
queucy Of wounds the lower extremities the feet
and legs, which is easily accounted for, if will
| rec0llect the loudness with which some Southern
newspaper insisted on it that the Yankees fred too
high in the battle of Bethel. For weeks together
after that fight. some newspapers, that ought to
have known better, amused themselves with the
manner in which the enemy pruned the tops of the
| pine trees in the Peninsula.
Many of the Committee who were sent up to see
after the wounded returned in the last train yester
day evening; but though not indisposed to talk lit.
tie information Of any importance could be obtained
from them. They had ali roamed over the battle
field, and had wondrous tales of blood and horror
to Narrator but in their estimates of the killed and
wounded on either side, they appear to have con-
confused and conflicting opinions They represent
| the country for miles beyond Bull Run as thickly
! strewn with the unhurried dead of the enemy
Yesterday, for tn first time since the last battle
| the Yankees sent up flag of truce and the very
! inadequate force of twenty-five men to bury their
slain, and these declined attempting the Office al
eging that the state of purefaction in which the
cOFpses were found to be rendered. it impossible.
And there these many hundred uncared for csrpses
must lie fostering under the sum- and poisoning the
breeze with their vile etiiuvia until our Generals
can find the time to have them sunk beneath the
| soil they came TO conquer.
The portion of the battle field perhaps more
! thickly strewn than any other with the Yankee
dead said to be the locality occupied by the Rhode
Island (Sprsgue 81 battery. This battery whose
guns were even finer than those of the famous Sher
mans battery, was planted on the top of cOnsid>
cradle emiuence. up ch our troops had to toll in
their attack. Heaps of dead men and horses now
cucumber the ground, where Sunday morning last
all was life and animation and hopeful confidence
To the right of this locality, and on the same
inence stands small wooden mousse torn and rid
died on every side by the bullets of both parties
At the time of the battle, it was occupied by a very
old and bed,ridden woman and her daughter, who
was also no longer young When the fight began 10
their vicinity the daughter fled, leaving her mother
Unable to move from her bed, in the second story,
where some time during the day she shot and
killed 1t is consolation, however, to know that,
hard her fate this old creature meried little
better, for both she and her daughter were well
knownto have been, so far as their limited powers
extended enemies to their country.
The rumor that General Beauregard had advanced
| on Alexandria, though not denied, received little
positive confirmation. If any of the committee
] sssengers knew anything certainly Of his move
meuts, they were unwilling to make disclosures.
If they silent from prudential motives we give
them all credit for their discretion.
From tn, Richmond Enquirer, July &c.
We have conversed with a very intelligent gentle
man, who, on Monday last rode over q cOnsidera-
BILE portion of the battle field of the previous day.
The location Of the of the fercest strife is
somewhat different from the general idea.
On the turnpike road, which, coming through
Centreville crosses Bull Run at the Stone Bridge
and at point abOuta mile and a half West of said
Bridge, (on the opposite side from Centreville)
two story stone building stands on the Northern
margin Of the road. The turnpike is also crossed
here by q road which runs Northwest to Bull Run,
about two miles distant and Southwest to Manassas
! Junction.
The enemy in their fanking movement, marched
up Bull Run several miles above the Stone Bridge,
before crossing, and then advancing met our troops
10 the vicinity of the stone building above noted Il
was in this locality the battle ragged for ten hours
On the part the Northern legions and their nu-
| merous batteries, Sherman's among them, thunder
ed against columns and on the other the heroic
Johnston and bis gallant bands performed prodlgies
! of valor
! On the hills and behind the hills in rear of the
stone house. and in the wales and on the hills in
'front.' both sides Of the turnpike and both sides
of the cross road, the battle ragged and roared,
ceded and advanced, with furious pertnacty Two
o'clock came and happily brought reinforcements to
cur greatly outnumbered but undaunted sOd>
! ie-s Against great disparity Of numbers they
| had held the battle in even scale Now, though
still out9Umbered they drove their enemy over the
hills and across the Run, and took their batteries
and chased them down the road to Centreville. and
! to Fairfax and beyond Fairfax. Night closed down
upon the fugjIiyes and pursuers ard stopped the
! slaughter.
The stone house above noted was it will be seen.
far from the centre of the scene of the shifting
battle, though the ground lay mainly on the east
| side. towards the Stone Bridge. The visit of our
! friend on Monday morning revealed much that was
hOrrifymg. The stone building had been appropri>
! ated hospital for the enemys wounded. The
! enemy's Generals had been invited by Gen. Beau
regard to send surgeons and attendants, to admins
ter to their relief In this building thirtytwo
! wounded, may Of them dreadfully mangled
! by cannon shot. There but a single
surgeon, and he young and appar-
! gRtly ileffi ,ient. Men lay on the floor with
their clotted wounds still undFessed. Some had
died and not been removed. On the roadside few
hundred yards from the hospital, two evarey
wounded Northern men who lay there, begged our
informant to report their cases to their surgeon
and asked to be taken TO the hospital. He did So
The surgeon said his officers had sent him no help
He was there alone. The wounded then in the hos
pital had all been brought in, he SAID by the Con-
federate men.
Over the hill. behind this hospital. lay a few of
our dead. who had not yet been gathered up. The
slain of the enemy lay in heaps on all sides. By
the highway and in the fields heaped here and scat
tered there he saw them at every turn
Our own hospital the road from the Stone
House to Manassas. The supply Of surgeons there
excellent and they were busily engaged their
humane services. a number Of wounded enemies
who had been gathered here, were not neglected.
Indeed, the only murmur our info mant heard was
from some of our sufferers who conceived
that Of the enemy interfered too much with
attention to themselves.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Enquirer.
MANASSAS July "a. I8G1-As predicted would be
the case in former letter active military opera
TONS have, at last been commence upon a scale
of magnitude which promises the N ISt gratifying
results. The RnbIcou has been ere ,sed the tide
of fortune still rolls in favor; and though hun
dreds of aching hearts beating with grief over
the loss of loved cnes. who have fallen upon the
field of battle, there is consolation in the proud
thought that they have been sacrificed while defend