The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-08-01

and reached Centerville at u o'clock.
The retreat of the whole force was
covered by the Garibaldi Guard,
Blenker's 1st Rife Regiment, Col. Elm
STEMS 9th Pennsylvania Regiment,
with its batteries, the DeKalb Regi-
ment, and the lst and I'd New JERSEY
Regiments, which had been ordered
from Vienna, distant five miles. Some
1000 cavalry hovered on the left of the
retreating troops, but there was no 9TH
er attempt at pursuit.
Mr.. Griswold represents the whole
affair as a fight in the woods. Indeed
there could not fairly be said to have
been any in open field. It was skir-
mishing on grand scale. The rebels
never left their entertainments except
when driven out. The clouds of smoke
told where actions were going on; but
the woods in every direction obscured
the troops from sight. Though Mr..
Griswold was on an eminence between
Centerville and the hill occupied by the
rebels, he could not at any one time see
large bodies of troops.
| no du luoIduCS VI CuC SpulI VI tuC
soldiers, Mr.. G. mentioned the case of
one who was about twenty yards dis
tance from him, and was struck by the
| fragment of a shell that took the visor
off his cap grazed his forehead severely,
and knocked him down. His comrades
picked him up, and were about taking
him to the hospital, but be had no idea
of being put on the sick list, and cried,
Give me my gun-give me my gum"
There was properly no stand made at
Centerville, as the enemy were not in
pursuit. But the hills all about were
covered with our cattle, which had
been brought along to provision the
army. A stand was made long enough
to secure the cattle, bring in the bag
gage wagons, and give chance for
stragglers to come up. The retreat
was covered by regiments designated
for that purpose, and there was no an
noyance ffou, the cavalry of the enemy.
STATEMENT OF ANOTHER EYE wlTSEss
From the New York Evening Post, July %.
We get the following description of
the stampede at Bull Run from well
known gentleman of this city, who was
on the ground two hours after the re-
treat began:
"The reports of disorderly retreat
of our main army are grossly untrue.
A brief statement of small part of
what l witnessed will show this.
Mr.. Tilley of Rhode Island, and
myself accompanied the DeKalb regi-
ment from Alexandria in the cars to the
Fairfax station on the Manassas Gap
railroad; we reached there at 10 A. NJ.
Heavy cannonading was steadily going
on. While the regiment waited for
orders we walked forward on the track
till within five miles of Manassas juno
ton. A scout was there sending hour
ly reports of the firing to Gen. Scott.
Returning, as the regiment still halted
a party of four of us, with soldier,
walked on TO Fairfax Court House three
miles, and thence on the road to Cen
terville.
=" About 4 o'clock we began to meet
buggies and wagons with visitors re.
turning to Washington. All reported
that the day was ours, and rode on jubi
, liant, until, at halfpast an officer on
horseback, riding fiercely, said, "No
no, it's going against u.s." The firing
had ceased.
"Near Centerville, between two long
, hills, we suddenly saw army wagons
, and private vehicles coming down be-
, fore us in hot haste-a few soldiers on
, horseback mixed in the crowd. Look
/ ing back we found regiment coming
. fresh from Fairfax double quick"
"Mr. Russell of the London Times
. was on horseback among the first from
the battle.
"The New Jersey Colonel instantl.
formed his men in the road, and reso
: lutely turned every soldier back in th'
' road, and in twenty minutes perfec
i. order was restored, and the whole f1igh
e of the vehicles was shown to be absurd
] so much so that we waited two hour
q at that spot, drawing water for the poo
e wounded men, who began to limp alon.
e from the field; only two or three ambu
e lances to be seen.
/ eat halfpast six, two hours afte
e the battle was over, we started an,
! walked back to Fairfax Court House
l.. helping three or four wounded soldier
r into the wagons.
J. "Those who were unhurt and VIII
# had got by the Jersey boys, were stop
: ped by company of Michigan Fourth
d from Fairfax, ,and compelled to turn bach
h At Fairfax Courthouse we quietl
d took supper at the tavern, and neve
!. dreaming of any disorderly retreat, W
r were supplied with good beds; we ur
n dressed and acent to bed and aoere oslee
n at IL p NJ. At three o'clock Monda
= morning, finding the wagons wer
e moving on to Alexandria, we starte
It again and walked quietly along wit
l. them to Alexandria, doing what littl
a we could to aid the men more or les
e slightly wounded, or worn out-inclui
n ing some from the hospital-for sti
g there was scarcely any ambulance t
n be seen.
e "But on the whole road from Ger
:, terville to Alexandria, l am confder
IS there was not FIVE hundred soldiers j
e all, between P. NJ. and daylight; S
l. that it is grossly untrue that the whol
l. army beat hasty retreat. On th