Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-08-06
Rebel Accounts of the Battle
near Manassas.
Correspondence Of the Baltimore sun.

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LEEsDURo, Va, July %.
intelligent gentlemen from the field of
battle near Manassas Junction, bring some
important particulars of the great battle on
/ Sunday last between the Federal and Con-
( federa;e troops.
I Gen. Beauregard was reinforced by Gen
Johnston's Command, from Winchester.
! between III and II o'slock on Sunday
/ alter the lattle commenced The Confed.
+ e:ate loss ia killed and wounded is said 4,
/ be 1000 The lumber of prisoners taken
( 10y the COnfederates, is set down at .lJ2.
/ including one mehber of. Congress. Mr..
/ Ely, of n. Y. There were - pieces of
cannon captured. 1900 small arms, and
over 100 wagons.
The South Carolina troops were foremost
4 in the action, and suffered the greatest
loss. Col. Wade Hampton's legion Of cav.
airy was nearly cut to pieces, and Col.
Hampton was killed while charging the
FeEeral troops.
Col. HamPts. wss one Of the most en-
inent ana wealthy citizens and rianters of
! South Carolina. The legion which he
/ commanded was recently organized, and
was one of the finest bodies OF men ever
enrolled in the South.
/ The Maryland troops, with the Wash
/ ington Light Artillery Of New OrIeans.
/ were stationed at certain point, and were
not brought directly into action. Ii isnot
known positively that any volunteers from
, Maryland were kiiled--bnt hot over two or
I three certainly.
General Beauregard charges that the
Federal commander after sending a fac IF
truce Il bury their dead after the first hat
lie OF Bulls Run, lef: his dead unburried.
aud occupied his time in throwing IN en-
treuchment from which to renew the assault
upon the batteries OF Bulls Run. For this
/ reason be refused the application Stree
made by General Mcdowell, under a aar
of truce, TO bury the dead. The Federal
dead were collected and buried ia trenehe,
by the Confederate troops, aad the Federal
wounded we're receiving the same attention
as ;heir own.
/ The Curf. derates at no one time he'd
/ over II COO troops in action, but had re-
! served force of GG,000 men, from which the
regiments IN action were occasionally re-
! lieyed.
Among the prisoners taken il Col. Cor
/ coran Of New York, who is wounded. He
. Is at Manassas junction.
Washington. July q.
/ One of the New York Fire Zruayes who
/ was wounded at the battle Of Manassas on
Sunday last, sialwarr, hardy fellow, of
considerable intelligence, passed through
tins city yesterday. en- TOite homeward, re.
naming here several hours waiting for the
carr. From him / obtained n thrilling
narrative Of a re encounter between his
regiment and Il regiment of Mississippi-
aus
/ After the battle he'd been raging for
some hours, according TO the oec5unt of
| this Iouavian hero, he saw an immense
h'dyof Mississippians accompanied by some
Z tbeleved 20 be Baltimoreansl rush furi-
"usiy over the confederate ramparts. They
at once saw the conspicuous IN FIRMS Of
the Loua'es, and nude at them. The Mis-
sissipT Ians, alter approaching near erough
sent terrible vvlley from their rifles into
the ZiCave ranks. This done, they threw
their guns aside and charged onward nm
til each contend!ng enemy met face To face.
and hand 20 hand, IN terrible combat The
Miss'ssiupians, having discarded their ri.
Hes after the first fire, fell back upon their
bowie knives. They were Os huge dimen-
sions, eighteen - twenty inches tong. heavy
in proportion ard shape, two edr ed az
the point. Attached to the handle was a
lassc, some eight or ten feet in length.
with one end securely wound round he
wrist.
Nv informant says when these terrific
NhITloIs approached 10 within reach Of
their lasso, not waiting TO come within
bayonet range, they threw forward their
bowie knives at the ZJuaves. after The
fashion OF experienced harpouners striking
at n whale. Frequently they plunged in.
aud penetrated through a soldiers BODY
and were jerked out, ready to strike again
whilst the first victim sunk into death On
several occasions the terrible bowie knifa
was Iransfxed in a ZJuave. and the u IN
ave's baynuet in Mississippian, both i'm
raied aud fal ing together. 81 ssi fully
WIS tins deadly instrument handled by tbs
Mississippian that be could project IL 70 the
fall IassO length, kill his victim, withdraw
1t again with sudden impulse. and catch
{ the haSdle unerringly.
Ii by any mi-chahce the bowie knife
missed It's aim, broke the cord fastening IL
% The arm, or fell to the earth, revolver,
we're next resoTted to and used with SINH
liar dex,rity. The hand to hand closing
40 with both pistol shi bowie knife. cu,o
ting, slashIng. carving aud shooting almost
ia tho same moment, was awful beyond
description. Blood gushed from. hundreds
OF wounds, until, amid death. pi,iful
grcans and appalling sights. il staunched
the very earth. Mr.. Zyuave champion
says himself and comrades did hard fisbt-
lighting, and stood up manluliy 90 the
murder5us c0nflict, but lac felt no further
ambition 70 engage IN such encounters.