Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-07-27
from the Richmond Enquirer.
The Grand Battle at Bull Run.


The following dispatch, from President Davis,
who is in person at the head of forces at Manas
sa, was read to Congress on yesterday:
MANAssA, July 81, Gar NIGuT) 1861.
To GIN S. COOPER:
Night has closed on hard fought field. Our
forces have won glorious victory. The enemy was
routed and fled precipitately, abandoning very
large amount of arms, munitions knapsacks and
baggage. The ground was strewn with their killed
for miles, and the farm houses and grounds around
were filled with their wounded. The pursuit was
continued along several routes towards Leesburg
and Cenreville until darkness covered the fugtveS
We have captured several field batteries and regi-
mental standards, and one United States flag Many
prisoners have been taken. Too high praise cannot
be bestowed whether for the skill of the principal
officers for the gallantry of all the troops The
battle was mainly fought on our left several miles
from our field works-our force engaged there not
exceeding fifteen thousand that of the enemy esti-
mated at thirty-fve thousand.
[signedl JEFF DAVIS.
Briefly and graphically the above tells story that
will thrill the whole country. The Importance of
the victory which it describes cannot be overesti-
mated If the enemy had destroyed our army as
we have destroyed his, who can picture the gloom
that would this day have shrouded our prospects
We would have been, for the present, almost at the
mercy OF the invading host which has profaned our
soil! We cannot be too grateful to Heaven for the
glorious deliverance which has been granted u.s.
And the noble heroes by whose valor and whose
sutferings it has been wrought-what human speech
can httlngly pronounce their praise, or adequately
tell the measure of the benefit they have won for
their beloved country! The renown they have won
will reach the farthest limit of the civilized world
Such armieS have never before met in America Such
battle has never before been fought and such a
victory has never been won between our two oceansI
More vital issues were never at stake and interests
more vast and pressing scarce ever hung SUSPENDED
on the fate of conflict
Then let the songs of rejoicing swell through all
our beautiful land for God hath given us the vico-
~ Let our whole people join in the loud and Joy
1ul acclaim Let orators and poets, with the glory
OF our patriot heroes as their inspiring theme plume
their glad fancies for their nobest flights; they can
not indeed hope to rise to the full height of the grand
argument but they may give some faint expression
to the emotions which this day swell the hearts of
great and grateful people! Let maids and matrons,
with universal chorus of their sweet praises, crown
the fame of the brave officers and soldiers who have
driven back the brutal and worse than barbarian
hordes that threatended their peaceful homes This
day Cur freedom and independence stand secure
Abiding honor to the brave men, by whose strong
arms the prize mas been won, and in whose blood,
alas, the record is written
The soldiers who fell, let no man forget to honor
them ever and always! In the days of rejoicing let
them be pleasantly remembered! In the nensive
hours when we call to mind the loved and lost let
them bold the foreground of the pictured Deeply
do we mourn their fate; but what nobler end could
mortal DESIRE if end must come than to fall at the
post Of duty, and a duty so holy and ennoblinc as
that of patriotism Their names and the memory
OF their virtues will survive as part of our Repu6
lies most precious inheritance.
From the Wilmington Journal
Inc Federal account Of the Manassas Battle.
LOUISVILLE, July %, 1861.
The following news of the Confederate victory
creates the most extense excitement here startling
the public mind Q
Inc morning papers having published dispatches
from washington containing the proclamation of a
brilliant victory for the Federalists, there is now
great rejoicing over the truth among the Southern
rights men. - -. = -
IT, The dispatch received here (Louisville) from
Washington under date of Monday, at noon, saws
our troops (Federalists) after gaining great vic.
tory were eventually repulsed and Commenced a
retreat on Washington. After this information from
aseries OF events took place hero
In the highest degree disastrous, and many confused
statements are prevailing, but enough s.known tc