New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-08-09
NUMBER 1874.
From the Seat of War in viroiY1ia
Special to the New Orleans Cfsseent.T
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Mr.. Edf0r-My multitudnous duties Of a milf. |
tary character have kept me 30 constantly EN-.
ployed for the past few days to cause me, un-
willingly, to delay the continuation - Of my letter
Of the 23d ut., relative to the great battles Of
Bull Ron and Stone Bridge, or /" Manassas" or
the full particulars Of both these memorable bat
ties you are, this fully informed through other
correspondents ana the official returns published
in the Richmond papers and the Northern press.
Even the interesting episodes of which such tragic
scenes arc always go prolific have been ere this
served npon the public platter, as food for the in
satiate appetite, proceeding from the animal
which is in man." and hashed and re-hashed until
they have become insipid and tasteleas. t+
A few incidents which either occurred under my
own observation; or for the truthfulness whereof
will vouch have thus far however escaped other
afgus-eyed correspondents Tor the press. and /
viii claim for the Crescent the honor of being first
in the field With them. OF one OF these, the his
torian should make note as a link forever binding
the OF Beauregard to that Of all that is truly
great and honorable.
It was not until late in the afternoon Of the
| eyentfn 2lst that President Davis arrived on the
| battlefield, and Beauregard had from an elevated
stand-po the last gallant hOrseman of our
pursuing cavalry disappear in the distance after
the retrea!ng Eederalists ere he was informed OF
! the Presidents coming. | was near him, his
staff and the feldofcers Of the day approached to
| congratulate him his safety and his victory.
| He was thus occupied when one of his aids ap-
| preached at the top of his horses speed and
nounced the fact Of the Presidents arrival and
request to have the pleasure of seeing him i'm
mediately. The reply Of Beanregard was firm and
unimpassioned: " | cannot wait upon the President
himself till have first seen and attended TO the
wants of my wouudedi' Thus saying he turned
his horse in the direction of the most fatal portion
of the bloody field. Such a mani our Beauregard.
The credit Of planning and executing the brill
! liant defeat Of the Hessians Beauregard's, as
sisted by Gen. Johnston as aid, during the actual
| engagement. Our whole force engaged was short
Of Is 600, although the Northern press persist in
dcludjng their readers with the statement that our
| army greatly outnumbered their own.
In conversation with many apparently intelligent
| Yankee prisoners, and from letters picked up on
! the field Of battle, we gain much better idea Of
public sentiment at the North than is discoverable
from the perusa of the hireing papers OF that
ton. When asked why they had taken up arms
against and invaded our soil, many Of the prs.
oners Wond reply that they had enlisted for three
months with a view Of protecting the % National
Capital" against &C Southern mob.'' and had been
marched, against their wills and Wishes into South
ern territory and would prefer to remain prisoners
let Richmond until the suspension of hostilities than
| to rei0in the grand army of Northern aggression
| and INVASION was engaged, at Manassas June
ton, day or two after the battle of the list, in
conversation with prisoner, sergeant in a Con-
| nectcut regiment, when large and good natured
| looking darkie, belonging to an officer from South
Carolina, came in, having in charge two live Yam
|
and captured, unaided The negro was much
pleased with his exploit, and became the lion Of
| the hour. My Connecticut sergeant appeared
somewhat astonished that the negroes--the down
tr1ddeR, bechained, bestrapped, miBused, NAL
treated and crushed-should thus turn upon their
liberators and friends %. Your correspondent
d" took OCCASION to read Connecticut homily,
with the ahoye mentioned circumstance for text,
and felt sufficiently repaid for my efforts, in my
first lesson, in the assurance on the part OF Nut
meg that there had "no deoGt bein consd'be fault
| on both Sides
| The regiment to which am attached the Seventh
Of Louisiana under Col. Hays, is encamped
on the battlefield of Bull Run, about two hundred
yards from Backburn's Ford, across which the
enemy attempted to force passage-and did Mt
The Sixth, OF Louisiana, (Gol. SeynOurs,) is quar-
tered to our left Il few hundred yards, and the
Washington Artillery about mile farther up tht
Run. The Ninth is at Manassas Junction. Al
formed into a Brigade, under command OF Senior
Colonel Seymour, which arrangement appears tC
be generally satisfactory to all.
have just had placed in my hands the monthly
| reports of the several companies of the Seventh
Regiment from which l collate the following lis
of the killed and wounded in the late battles
| Continental Guards, Capt, Geo. Clark Killed
f VIM. MayIan, on the 18th ult:, and Ihos. H. Clay
on the 2lst. Wounded, SERGEANT Clohecy, and Pri
Yates ,Jno. Flynn and J. W. Kelly, all on the 2lst
Crescent Rifles, Company B., Capt Fl. 7 1ett.
Killed, Jno. s. Brooks, on the 18th ult. Wounded
Corporal Chas. V. Fisher, on the 2lst, doing we'll
Wounded Wm. Stanton slightly, il the battle o
the 2lst.
| Irish volunteers, of Lafourche, Capt. W. B. Rat
lif,-killed Dick. Murphy, 2lst; wounded on tht
2lst, Corporal Fnllan lost an arm, James Ham
mond, Jno. McCarty, Francis Manley and Timothy
Noon.
Baton Rouge Fencibles- Wounded, 2lst, J. 7
Rouse and W. Il. Banks.
Virginia Blues, Capt. D. \. Wilson, Jr.-ked
Miles Smythe, July IS; wounded, Patrick CAM
and Jno. McMnhan. Total killed, . wounded, IA
OF the loss of the Eighth Regiment, | see you ar
already informed and also relative to the cuttn!
up of Wheat's Battalion.
r Our boys in the best of spirits, and eager 70
q q more fighting,
l enclose you discourse delivered by our Chap
lan Rev. DR.. Howard, of New Orleans, on the Suu
day succeeding the great battle of Stone Bridge
# the very spot where the battle ragged the herces
t on the ever memorable 2lst Of July. 1t was Ell
!, tirely eXtemporaneons, and written out atterward
from recollection. | send it to you by urgent re
!, quest of nearly all officers, and very man.
others who were present on the occasion of it
c delivery. IL will well repay perusal. More amor
FIVaNDlERE