Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1861-11-08

July 2lst, has at last been made but copies
cannot as yet be obtained for publication
We find the following notice of it in the Ma
nassas CORE t1 Ce1 of the Richmond Dis
patch of ofSaturday
have been favored with brief synopsis
OF portions OF General Beaul egard's report of
the Battle of Manassas, which has been for
warded to the War Department, and which
will doubtless be published in short time.-
Gensrat Beauregard opens with statement of
his position antecedent to the battle, and of
the plan proposed by him to the Government
of junction Of the Shenandoah and Potomac
forces with a view to the relief of Mary land and
the capture of the city Of Washington, which
plan was rejected by the President Gen. B. sta
tes that he telegraphed to the War De . partment
on the 18th July of the contemplated attack
of Gen. Mcdowell, urgently asking for juno
tion of Gen. ohnstons forces with his own,
and continued to make urgent requests for the
! same until the 17th July, when the President
consen ted to order Gen. Johnston to his as
sstance. Gen. Beauregard goes on to state
that his plan of pattle assigned to General
Johnston an attack on the enemy on the left at
or near Centreville, while he himself would
command in front but the condition of the
roads prevented this. 1t was then decided to
receive the attack of the enemy behind Bull
Run. After the engagement at Black burns
Ford, on the 18th, Gen. Beauregard was con-
vinced Gen. McDowelPs principle demonstra-
tion would be made on our left wing, and then
formed the plan of throwing forward sniff
cient force by coverging roads to attack the
enemy's reserves at Centreville, SO soon as the
main body of the latter became inextricabIy
engaged on the left. Late in the day, finding
that Gen. Ewell, who was posted on the ex>
| rh4 4ofo, live had
ward in accordance with the programe and
the special order which had been sent to him,
Geu. B. dispatched courier to Gen. Ewell to
Iinqiaxe the reason why the latter ha6 failed to
Vance, and received a reply from Gen E.
ssateilg he had not received any such order
| The enemy's attack having then become too
strong, the left, to warrant carrying out
| the original plan, it would take three hours
for Gen. EwelPs brigade to reach Centreville,
it became necessary to alter the plan, change
front On the left, aud bring up our reserves on
that part of the field. This movement was
super1ntended in person by Gen. Johnston. and
BeauregaId remaining to direct the movements
in front.
At the time when General Kirby Smith and
General Early came up with their divisions
and appeared on the right of the enemy, our
forces on the left occupied the cord of the arc
os circle of which the arc itself was occupied
by the enemy-the extremes of their lines
fanking ours. The appearance OF Smiths and
Early's brigades, and their charge on the ene-
my's right, broke the line of the latter and
threw them into confusion, when shortly after
wards the route became complete.
Gen. Beauregard highly compliments Gen.
= then Colonel-Evans, commanding a brigade)
and row the hero of Leesburg, for the ex-
traordinary military aptitude and..great gallan-
! try he display ed in his movement from Stone
| Bridge, to Sudley's Ford, after receiving the
lenenay's first onset at Stone Bridge General
Evans had only about one thousand men, but
diyining that the enemy's movements was a
AxSncentrative one and that his columns had
goGes through the woods to the left, and would
attempt to cross at Sudley's Ford, he left at
Stons Bridge four hundred men, and filing off
| towards the ford at Sudley's, with six hundred
men kept the enemy at bay there for nearly
| an hour although in force several thousand
| strong
! Gen. Beauregard settles forever the various
questions so much disputed respecting this bat
| tie. ! He acknowledges the great generosity of
| Gen. Johnston, in fully according to him (Gen.
/ B. )s&he right to carry out the plans he had
| formed with relation to this campaign,n yield
| ing the command of the field after examining
and .aordially approving the plan of battle, and
in the effective cooperation which Gen. John
ston so 9hivalrously extended to him on that
eventful day.
He remarks that the reti eat of our forces
/ from Fairfax, Immediately previous to the en-
gagement of the 18th, is the first instance On
record Of Y ounteers retiring before an angage.
mert, and with the object of giving battle in