Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-08-27
The London Times ON the Bat
tle of Bull Run.

which our kinsman across the Atlantic have
prepared for the scandal of free institutions.
A great battle has been fought-fought be- |
tween men of q comm IN origin, common |
language, and common sympathies. A |
battle, such as might have happened be- |
tween Turks and Greeks, between Germans |
and Magyars, between Italians and Aus !
trians, between Poles and Russianr, has !
been fought between men bearing on each |
side ADglo-Saxon names, and proud to |
claim common lineage with our own faith
ers. 1t is as if we heard of a great battle !
upon the East and West Rulings Of York
shire. 1t is much nearer to us than the
atrocities of our own border warefare, when
the Moss troopers carried fire and sword
down to the walls of Carlisle and were
beaten back with rout and slaughter by the
LORDS of the Marches and their stout re-
tainers. Those events were not the normal
condition of an un3uiet land, and those
contests were between men claiming sep
crate nationality. But here, for the first
time, We have brotherhood Of near q hun
dred years split asunder by one great
schisni, and joining in n senseless and
bloody strife. Here we have the muster
ing OF fighting men, the eruption, the quick
occupation of territory by fierce invaders,
the desperate attack upon the first strong
hold in the way, and then the check, the
surprise, the overwhelming attack from
the hidden enemy, the sudden panic, the
headlong rout; but with a deliberate and
deadly purpose far more serious than our
border battles. They were fought compar
atiyely from gaiety of heart, from love Of
fighting, from habit Of fighting, but first
and principally for hope of plumber. A
days hunting on the Cheriots was excuse
though and as we made our cause Of
battle lightly we composed our strife easily.
This is not the war the far-away decen-
dants of these men have been waging. 1t
is not barbarous sport akin to an exag-
gerated cudgel-match upon vii age green;
it is fierce, deadly. fatal civil war, where
every wound is the source of luxuaiant ha-
treds, and where every victory is but O
necessity for future death struggles. What
we English have hoped against hope would
never come to pass has now occurred. The
two hosts of this sundered republic have
| for the first time joined in conflict, and the
first of score of varying victories has in-
clined to the South. The northern levies
| have fed panic stricken and disorganized
before their brothers, leaving their arms,
| their artillery, and their stores behind
them. They lost all-eyen their military
honor.
! Let us examine how this happened. In
| the early part of tEis rupture Mr.. Jefferson
Davis and his followers had, foolishly,
bandying, perhaps, BOAST for boast across
tie Potomac, promised that the Confede-
rate flag should float over the capitol Up
on this the fiery cross went through the
northern States, ard to Washington, as to
the only point where the challenge was to
be accepted, every railroad bore its thou
sands, until the city obtained more half
disciplined soldiers than it required for its
defence, or could sustain from its resources
Stores and arms came more slowly up, and
behind all, came the hot blasts of popular
ardor, calling for the blood of the southern
insurgents, and the fierce inveetives of the
empty northern press, depouncing the in
activity of the generals who had to organ
ize their raw legies. Under this pressure
the troops which crowded Warrington
were pushed forewsrd pver the Potomac
| River, which runs in front of the CITY, and
into the enemy's county. These leviss at
first marched with a caution which seemed
t. give the world confidence in the prudence
OF the commander who was directing their
movements. On the opposite side to Wash
| ingtOn, aud little lower down the stream
stands Alexandria, whence the RAILWAYS
branch forth which ramify through the
South. The overlooking garrison at Wash
ingtOn bad swaTmed across the river. had
occupied Alexandria, and with soarce a
show of opposition had step by step eau
tiDusly possessed the enemy's country for
about twenty miles along the line of enc Of
the railways. What there was beyond no
one seems to have known. OF course thew
were aware that if they advanced far
euough they would arrive at the mountains
which III two ranges lie behind: bot bow
the country was occupied was an ell tire nys
terry. That Confederate army Law some
where between them and tile mour tains
was strong reliability, and this seems 10
have been the extent Of their information.
But there was the whole power of tina, nm
cpntroilable popular voice shutting through
ten thousand newspapers, believing behind
the great northern ermy. Why had the
people OF the United States voted 400 600
OUO dollars and 500 600 men, if Gen. Sco,,
was not immediately to sweep the whole
white population OF the r"5el South into
the sea Possibly Gen. ScUtt NAV have
known that the chances in q conflict he
tween undiscipsined troops must ALWAYS be
| with The side that remains on the defensive
| lie may have fUreseen that the trained Off
! GERS he had to act against would be likely
to keep their half-drilled men behind lines
OF Notifications, where they would fight as
well as the best veterans in the world.
But, whatever he may have known. he gave
way to pressure or impatience On the
morning of the 2lst of July the whole of
the Federal army-we are not told their
numbers, but they were supported by their
artillery, rltied cannon, and the Rhode Is
land hattery-advanced along the plain
country intervening between Orange and
Alexandris railway and the highrosd.-
They seem to have had the railway upon
their left aud the road upon their right
Thr,e miles from Manassas Junction. 80
| often mentioned in previous descriptions OF
the county, is station On the railway called
Bull Run station, where there lie some mills
and where alao a stream falling from the
Bull Run mountain crosses the country.
Intersectlng both the road aud the railroad
We can very we'll understand that the place
might have been made into very formid-
able position. Here, it seems, the in aders
found their enemy. 1t would appear prob
able that General Beaureeard. having the
stream IN front, road aud q railroad on his
Hanks, had ussd these facilities 10 their M.
ermOst. The half disciplined army of tbs
North coming suddenly upon his lines an
pears to have rushed impetuously against
them. We sre told by the telegram that
they attacked them for nine hours, and
succeeded at the end of that time in carry
ing three of the batteries. At the end Of
the pine hours-we ale commenting upon
the northern accountable Confederate
army, reinforced by fresh corps of twenty
tive thousand men, attacked the Union
army and drove them in disorder from the
field. Then happened what 50 frequently
happens to the best troops. Their impst.
nosity had been checked /; they had found
the enemy too strong for them from conf
dence and exultasion they bad passed 10