Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-08-23
THE HEROES OF BULL RUN.
CFrom the NY. Evening Post, 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 con-
dition of tho country, it is singular
to note that of all the conspicuous
men on both sides who figured on
that field, but two or three that sur
vived it 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 brigade
of Tylers division, is Commander
in-Chief at Washington, and General
Burnside, who in the earlier part of
the engagement was in the van, is
now Governor of Rhode Island.
General Tyler, commander of the
first division, whose baptismal name,
strangely enough, is given as Daniel
by one historian of the war, and as
Robert o. by another, lives in Con-
necticut, in the prosecution Of priv
ate business enterprises.
General David Hunter, who com
manded the second division, and who
never sustained himself more gal
lantly than on that day, lives retire
ment in Washington.
General S. p. Heintzleman, the
third division commander, is on half
pay after forty-four years of SER
vice, is president of New York in
surance company, and lives at Engle-
wood, in New Jersey.
General Theodore Runyon, COM
mading the fourth division. is out of
service, and 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
division, General Keys is now a Col.
onel in the regular army, General
Sehenck is in Congress, and Richard
son was subsequently killed in battle.
OF the brigade commanders OF
Hcintzleman, General Franklin is
now superintendent of Colts rife
works at Hartford, General Howard
became the head Of the Freedmen
Bureau, and General Wilcox, after
serving to the end of the war, and
participating in the assault of Peters
burg, was killed, if we mistake not,
in the recent distressing casualty OF
the fall Of the court room in the
Capitol Of Richmond.
General Patterson, of Pcnnsylva,
MIA, from whom the rebel General
Joseph Il. Johnston slipped away tC
join Beauregard, is q prosperou;
cotton manufacturer in his native
State.
Generals Johnston and BeauregarC
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 republic, but of an insurance
company at Memphis. General d
K. Jones of South Carolina, whC
bore conspicuous part in the field
died of consumption during the wal
in Richmond. General Ewell, whC
afterwards lost q leg, is now il
private life, and Longstreet is Sur
veyor of Customs at New Orleans
Wade Hampton is planting cotton
Lee and Johnson, of South Carolina
and Barstow of Georgia (the las
named one Of the best soldiers anC
one of truest gentlemen of the South
eminent at the bar and wise in coun
Gill, were all killed on the field
Stonewall Jackson and Jeb Stuart
the strength of the Southern army
in the two arms of the service, sur
vived Bull Run to fall on other fields
Early, known as Jubilee, is dwelle
in the rural districts of Virginia
which he finds, after all, more con
genial than the cold exile Of tn
Canadas.