Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-25
TIE Heroes of Bun Run.

From the New York Evening Post Of the
2Ist.
Nine years ago to-day was fought
the battle of Bull Run, and in recall
ing the fact, and the great changes
| that have since occurred in the c0ndi.
ton of the country, it is singular t.
note that Of all the conspicuous men
on both sides who figured on that
field, but two or three that survived il
now take any part in public affairs.
General Irwin Mcdowell, who COM
manded the Union forces, remains
still in the army of the United States.
General Sherman, who led a brigade
| of Tyler division, is cOmmander-in
| chief at Washington, and General
Burnside, who ih the earlier part Of
the engagement was in the van, lis now
Governor Of Rhode Island.
General Tyler, commander of the
First Division, whose baptisnal name,
strangely enough, is given as Daniel
by one historian of the war, and as
Robert o. by another, lives in Con-
neeticut, in the prosecution of private
business enterprises.
General David Hunter, who com
manded the Second Division, and who
never sustained himself more gal
lantly than on that day, lives in re-
tirement in Washington.
General s. 2. HtiutZelman, the Third
Division commander, is on half pay,
after fOrty-four years service, is Presi-
dent of New York Insurance COM
pany, and lives at Englewood, in New
Jersey. Ee
General Theodore RunyOn, COM
manding the Fourth Division, is out
Of service, aud lives in Newark.
Colonel ID. S. Miles, who led the
Fifth Division, it will be recollected,
underwent the humiliation of sur
rendering Harper's Ferry, and was
killed upon the spot.
OF General Sherman's comrades as
brigade commanders in Tyler's Divi-
sion, General Keyes is now a Colonel
in the regular army, General Schenck
is in Congress, and Richardson was
subsequently killed in battle.
OF the brigade commanders of
Heintzelman, General Franklin is
now superintendent of Colts rifle
works at Hartford; General Howard
became the head of the Freedmen's
Bureau, and General Wilcox, after
serving to the end of the war and
participating in the assault on Peters
burg, was killed, if we are not mis-
taken, in the recent distressing easu-
atty of the fall of the court-reOm in
the Capitol at Richmond.
General Patterson, of Pennsylvania,
from whom the rebel General Joseph
L. Johnston slipped away to join
Beauregard, is prosperous cotton
manufacturer in his native State.
Generals Johnston and Beauregard,
Of the rebel army, are now railroad
presidents, and Jefferson Davis, who
rode over the field after the battle had
been won, is the president, not of a
republic, but of an insurance c0mpa-
ny, at Memphis. General ID. r.
Jones, of South Carolina, who bore a
conspicuous part in the fight, died of
consumption during the war in Rich
mond. General Ewell, who after
wards lost a leg, is now in private
life, and Longstreet is Surveyor of
Customs at New Orleans. Wade
Hampton is planting cotton. Bee and
Johnson, of South Carolina, and Bar
tow, of Georgia, (the last-named one
of the best soldiers and one of the tru-
est gentlemen of the South, eminent
at the bar and wise in council, } were
all killed on the field. StOneWall
Jackson and Jeb Stuart, the strength
of the Southern army in the two arms
Of the service, survived Bull Run to
fall on other fields. Early, known as
Jubilee, is dweller in the rural dis
tricts Of Virginia, which he finds, af-
ter all, more congenial than the cold
exile of the CanadaS.