The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-07-27

q miserable remnant of party leaders, with few
of the rank and file. Our people are right
The Clarion has rugged telegraph of its own.
It is ahead of the Hawk-Eye, on sensation dis.
| patches. You hadn't orter" told 'em how the
plaguey thing worked--they thought it went on
| horseback.
] Yours, A BLACK REPUBLICAN.
| -O-
Correspondence Of the Hawk.Eye.1
From Warrington.
WAsHINGroN, July %, 1861.
When last wrote, you, Gen. Mcdowell had
just marched forward against the rebels with a
splendid army of $4,000 men, all eager for the
fray and confident of success. The bloody re.
suits of this Inflated enterprise you have ere this
received lean only give you feeble view Of
the intense bitterness and gloom which pervades
the Union men of this city
The policy was, as you know, to crush out the
rebels with an Overwhelming force. But we
have moderated our enemy. What was repre-
sented as an unwilling army, of seven or eigh.
thousand, later reports show to be nearer han
d,ed thousand, well entrenched and finely off.
cered
Against this, General Mcdowell marched with
fifty thousand men. The first unfortunate thing
was the house. burning outrage at Fairfax. Con-
grcssmen present at the time, say that the hand.
full Of women 10 be found in the village, viewed
the entrance of our troops with dislnay and abb
horrence, The idea has been sedulously instilled
into the minds of the southern people that the
progress Of our army was 10 be a march of ex-
termination. This outrage will be Haunted thro'
every Southern Journal as evidence of such a
determination, as facts against which our pro-
testations can weigh nothing. The attack and
repulse Of our forces under Gen. Tyler followed.
Contrary to orders, and without any reconnos-
ssnce, be marched blindly upon the enemies
batteries, SO ignorant Of their position that the
Massachusetts, First, received their first intima.
ton Of the presence Of q battery by receiving
its fire. Is it wonder that they turned and
fed? This fight is charged upon the officers.
Il is said that had they stood firm, the men would
not have yielded. fear from some Of the exam
pies have seen that this inef6ciency of officers
will be = cause Of complaint all through the war.
Boys and fops are hardly tAe proper leaders for
such conflicts as this. Il,
Yesterday morning, as expected, the heavy
cannonading, heard distinctly in Washington,
announced the great battle. News came at brief
intervals favorable to our troops. Towards night
the excitement became intense Official des-
patches announced that the three batteries at
Bull Run had been taken and the enemy were
in full retreat. Upon this the gloom Of the Union
men wore away, and the dense crowds at Viii,
ards and the National were full Of joy. Later
at night rumors Of less favorable character,
we're floating about, but not well authenticated.
This morning brings US the details of total
rout Of our forces, with an immense slaughter, and
their complete decentralization. have gathered
the particulars as far as possible, but new and
conflicting ones are arriving every moment. Ny
Information is however from Senators Trumbul
and Grimes, spectators of the battle, and the
poor soldiers who have escaped. The troops
fought bravely all day, till late in the afternoon.
Their loss Of course was enormous. The batter.
les before them were entirely covered, so that
every discharge was blind and aimless. AZouave
tells pe that his corps only saw during the day
about six hundred cavalry, and these they almost
completely anuihilated. These Fire Zouaves
suffer- terribly I have just seen, before Gen.
Hans6elds Office, two hundred of them, and
these, they say, are all they can muster of their
gallant band OF eleven hundred. Their regiment
after being repulsed by battery, saw the Amer
lean flag waving over it, and with shout. push.
cd forward towards it. When within gun sho.
the battery opened. moving them down ike