American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1861-08-24
From the Richmond Dispatch.
THE WAR.
Tennessee Tr00ps-MOre of the Battle OF
Manassas Plains-Facts ana Incidents,
DC, DC.

We are permitted to make the follow
ing extract from a letter dated Nashville,
Tenn, July 81, received by a gentleman
of this city:
"Any news from Virginia just now
would be of considerable interest to our
people. Eight regiments from this i'm
mediate vicinity have recently pitched
their tents in that portion of your State.
A fight. therefore, may
be shortly looked for, and when it does
take place. the Tennessee boys will give
good account of themselves. Several
of the regiments above referred to were
made up in our city, and are composed
for the most part of the flower of the
land. The First Regiment is included in
the number, and a better drilled set of
men or more gallant band are not to
be found. The same can also be said of
the 18th (Col. Forbes) Regiment. The
first is commanded by Col. Mahey, one
of the heroes at the battle of Monterey
Taz. w. Newman, late Speaker of our
State Senate. is Colonel of another
Robert Hutton, who formerly represent
ed the 9Th District in the Congress of
the United States, leads another. Joel
A. Battle, an old Florida war horse is at
the head of gallant band. James E.
Raines. Attorney General in this dis
trict, is Colonel Of the 10th.
"Col Forbes is graduate of West
Point. In fact. they are all good officers.
and the best of it is. the men are of the
right stripe"
GENERAL JONES' BRIGADE.
A Manassas correspondent furnishes
some particulars of the bold and danger
Gus part performed in the Manassas battle
by the third brigade, under Gen. Jones,
which has heretofore been characterized
as unsuccessful" We copy portion
of the letter:
The order, in the execution of which
Gen. Jones crossed the Run, was to
advance upon the enemy's left wing
three brigades, viz: Generals Longstreet,
Jones, and Ewell. Gen. Jones only
crossed the run, and got in reach of the
enemy's guns before the order counter
handing the charge was given. in con-
sequence of which fact his brigade. COM
posed of the 9Th South Carolina Volun
teers and 18th and 18th Mississippi,
were compelled to receive the raking
fire of the eight-gun battery of the enc
my's left wing. and by their steady
advance, under the immediate command
of Col. Jenkins, of the 9Th South Carroll
ma Volunteers, the enemy ceased firing
and fed, supposing that Col. Jenkins
regiment which was in the front, was the
advance guard of a larger body of men.
whose sharp-shooters, though scarcely
in reach of the infantry that supported
the enmy's battery. SO terrified their foes
that they soon caught the panic prevail
ing on their right and joined in the gener-
al fight just as Col. jenkins was form
ing his regiment at the foot of the hill
upon which the battery was placed, to
make bis final charge: and have no doubt
that this unsuccessful attack" upon the
enemY's left wing. which lasted about 5
minutes. and during which 20 of our men
were killed and wounded, had the effect
to render complete and perfect the panic
of the whole of the enemy's line. To
have taken the battery unsupported as
we were by artillery. would have requir-
ed the entire force ordered to that duty;
and yet it was boldly attempted BY one
third the force, under great disadvan-