The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-07-24
The Battieat Bulls Rum.

MIR Raymond, Of the Times, telegraphed the
! following from Washington July 19:
| | left our advance camp at 10 o'clock this
! morning. All the columns hid come t,gether
and were encamped one mile this side of Cen
! tervlIc and four from Bulbs Run. No move
ment was intendad today. The roads and
works OF the Confederaes were to be reconnei
tered, and an advance movement will he made
to morrow. The Confederate batteries will NOT
he attacked in front il they can be turned
! his city is full of absurd rumors abeut the
lulPs Run affair. Nothing whatever was at
tempted after the ceasing of the fire of our bat
teries The SiXty-njnth and Seventy ninth
! New York Regiments, which are said to have
charged the batteries were not in the action at
all; they came up Just as it was closing and
were not brought 10 the front. The Con'eder-
a'es at Manassas are supposed to be quite as
strong as we are, besides being strongly in
trenched. Gen. Mcdowell is greatly incensed
at The depredallons OF our troops and at the in
suts heaped upon some Of the prisoners who
were brought into camp. He has issued gen
feral order, threatening all offenders in this way
with severe punishment. Our provision wac
ons bad come up, ard the men will move to
morrow mtrning early. Our men will depend
largely on their artillery, which is numerous
and good. There are no later advices rom
camp than these, though the town is filed with
rumors ol another battle-they are utterly un-
founded.
The following from the HeraM,aprears to he
as lntelligible an account of the battle at Bulls
Run as we have yet seen:
CENT ERvILLE Va, July l8-At eleven o.
clock General Tyler proceeded to make re.
conno sance in force, with Captain Ayers 0ate
bar aT,scN lnft I.,,, r
and Col. Richardson's brigade composed as
bove stated. Advancing up the road to Bulls
Run for about two miles, the column came to an
opening, after passing through long stretch
OF timber, when sight was caught OF a strong
body OF the enemy. Gen. Tyler Immediately
ordered Captain Ayers battery to advance and |
open on them, which they did from comman
ding elevation. Eight shells had been thrown
when suddenly voey was fired upon us from
! hidden battery, abouta mile down the road
Some OF the enemy's grapeshot struck among
-hc cavalry, that had in the meantime been
irawn up in body on hill, killing two horses
ind wounding two of the troopers. Two more
hots were then fired by the Cenfederates, to
which our rfled pieces responded with about
ifty shot and SHE'LL directed wherever a trace
'fthe enemy was visible. Two of Parrott's ri
led twenty Founders then came up, and mme-
lately joined in the action
The enemy having retrea'ed into the woods
ur batteries stopped firing and Tie Second
Michigan was ordered to deploy as skirmi.he
N the left Of the road, and advance into the
woods. They moved on, and having entered
ne timber, they had hardly been out Of sight
I've minutes when most lively exchange ofI
1usket shots took place for a lew moments. g.
uddenly succession Of whole volleys. dis
harged by large bodies Of men, were fred -
he remainder of Colonel Richardson's brigade +,
'as then ordered ahead. The three regiments
dvanced towards the woods and drew I'm in :
attic array in front and on the right OF the
mher. Meantime the exchange OF musket =
lots continued in the lvelieSt style in the
oodS. Companies q and II of the First
Iassacusetts regiment, and some companies ol ;
le Twelfth New York Volunteers were then :
so ordered into the timber; and at the same
me the cavalry and two howitzers advanced a
the edge Of the woods, the firing of the mus =
cts in the timber being kept up in the inter- !,
Il. ~
Our howitzer then threw some grapesbot in.tl
the timber, when at cnce terrific series Of l.
'lleys OF musketry was poured out from the :
oods upon the troops outside. At the same +;
me battery commenced playing upon us
1D an elevation in the rear. Shot of every q
tcription flew about US for some minutes ike !,
ii; but it being, fortunately nearly all aimed a
0 high, hardly any one was struck outside the
1ods. A retreat was now ordered. when IN.
Try, cavalry and artillery fell back behind
r battery on the hill. The twelfth New York
d portion ofthe First Massachusetts broka
1ks, and scattered in different directions IN re
eir hasty retreat for some distance tbroucb Dir
} woods, in the rear OF the battery At This be
lctute Colonel Sherman's Third brie,de
,ded by the Sixty ninth New York regiment
,eared. Our battery again opened, and kent
raking fire for nearly an hour, which was co
orously replied to oby the enemy Their balls nj,
shells struck the houses in front of which m,
battery was stationed several times, and ra- fir
the woods in the rear for nearly mile an