Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-07-20
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THE BATTLE AT BULLS RUN.

w.surNGToN. July l9--We learn that the
fyht At Bulls Run, three miles beyond Cen
terville, yesterday, was quite serious. On the
road. after leaving Centerville, Gen. Tyler
commanding the right center division, receiv-
ed information that there were masked batter.
les ahead. The brigade led by Col. Richard.
son of Michigan, was directed to reconnoiter.
Ayers battery, and two twenty. pound rihed
cannon, in charge of Lieut. Benjamin, are at.
tached to this brigade. Detachments of other
regiments were also detailed as skirmishers
AM the whole were led by General Tyler him.
self.
About halfpast twelve they encountered a
masked battery, and portion of the force
with Ayers battery fought il about an hour.
Soon after they woke up another battery on
the other side of the road aud other portions
OF the force came up. Lieut.. Benjamin's guns
silenced the first one Our batteries changed
position. The sSirnishers then advanced to-
wards the second, and musketry accompanied
cannon in the fight The enemy were largely
reinforced bv troops from Manassas Juntion.
1t Col Wells of the Massachusetts regiment
led the advance into the woOds, preceded by
two of Ayers howtzers. Our fellows went in
nobly, followed by the New York twelfth, and
were received with tremendous fire by
the enemy, who were concealed behind breast
works across deep ravine. Aver maintained
his position till all his shell and canister were
gone. He did great execution, and retired with
the loss of one man killed and three wounded
while nearly all his horses were disabled. The
Massachusetts first and the New York twelfth
regiments suffered severely. Sergeant Forrest
of Capt Shows company, Lieut.. w. II. b.
Smith Of Co. G, and Edwin Field of Boston,
were killed. Oliver L. Simpson of the Schoul-
er volunteers had leg shot off.
Gen. Tyler withdrew the troops from the
woods, and took position under~cover of the
batteries A heavy cannonading followed
There is no correct estimate of the enemy's
force, but it must have been very large. 1t
had eight guns. Our loss is estimated at
about one hundred killed and wounded. The
rebel lost must have been very severe from
our shells.
1t appears that the South Carolinian and
Alabama troops, that fled from Fairfax Court
House yesterday, fell back upon Bulls Run,
where they received reinforcements from Man
assas Junction. It's stated that they were too
strong, with their masked battery, to be over
come by the single advance brigade under
Richardson Only about one thousand of our
force was at any one time engaged. The rebel
force is estimated at four thousand. Colonel
Wilcox's division, including the Fire Zouaves
moved from Fairfax station to night to the
flank, The enemy's battery is thought 10 be
one of Il line of batteries from Ocotink Creek
to Manassas.
THE BATTERIES TAKEN.
New YoRL, July ia special Washing
ton dispatch to the Tribune states The sec
rotary of war says there were not more than
50 killed and wounded, among them five cap
tains and six ieutenants. From another
source it is stated that the enemy's works
were carried by The Zouaves and the Massa.
chusetts fifth, moving on the flank. There is
no doubt that the enemy is now falling back,
and the rumor that Manassas is occupied by
our troops is perhaps only a little premature.
COL. MILES COLUMN.
One MILE EAST OF FAIRFAX Court House,
July 12-2 P. M.-Our division, Colonel Miles
commanding, moved at six o'clock this morn
ing from Anandale. Companies A, B, G and
X, of the eighth New York regiment, Lieuten-
ant Colonel w. IL. Young commanding com
posed the advance guard. They met the fifth
Alabama regiment of rebels three miles from
Fairfax, when the rebels opened fire, wounding
four men-Lieutenant Groot, H. Mckinley
and John Allen--the latter MORALLY. He was
shot through the left arm and side and an
other private was slightly wounded name TN
known. 1t is ascertaned that between twenty
and thirty rebels were killed. We now occu-
py the camp of the fifth Alabama regiment,
Colonel r. L. Rhodes, WHO scampered off,
leaving everything, camp utensils blankets,
&c. The road was strewed with blankets and
we found about one hundred guns
Colonel Hentzelmann came up on the left,
with the Fire Zouaves, and captured battery
of four guns and a rebel flag