Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-07-07
Bull MISUNDERSTANDING Of the Officers
Who Fought There.

In referring to the last anniversary Of the Bull
Run battle, on the 2Ist Of July, the New York
Post gives the following information concerning
some of the officers engaged there:
Gen. Irwin Mcdowell. who commanded the
Union iurces, remains still in the army Of the
United States, Gen. Sherman, who commanded
q brigade Of Tyler's division, is Commander-in-
Chief at Washington, and Gen. Burnside, who
In the earlier part of the engagement, was in the
van, is now Governor Of the State OF Rhode
Island.
Gen. 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 Connecticut, in
the prosecution of private business enterprises.
Gen. David Hunter, who commanded the sec
ond division, and who never sustained himself
more gallantly than on that day; lives in retire
ment in Washington.
Gen. P. s. Heintzleman, the third division
commander, is on half pay. alter forty four years
service, is president Of New York insurance
company, and lives at Engewond, New Jersey.
Gen. Theodore RunyOn, commander of the
fourth division, is out Of service, and lives in
Newark.
CID. s. Miles, who led the fifth Division, II
will be remembered, underwent the humiliation
of surrendering Harper's Ferry, aud was killed
upon the spot.
OF Gen. Sherman's comrades and brigade
commands in Tyler's Division, G n. keyes is
now a Colonel in the regular army; Gen
Schenck is in Congress, and Richardson was
subsequently killed in battle.
OF the brigade commanders of Heintz!emans'
Division, Gen Eranklin is now Superintendent
of Colts Rife works, at Hartford Gen. Howard
became the head 1T the Freedmcn'S Bureau
and Gen. Wilcox. after serving to The end Of the
war, and participating la the assault on Peters
burg, was killed, it we are not mistaken, in the
distressing casualty OF the fall Of the court room
in the Capitol at Richm0nd.
Gen. Patterson Of Pennsylvania, from whom
the rebel General Jos. Z. Johnston slipped away
to join Beauregard, is a rosperous cotton manu-
facturer in has native Stale. Gen. Johnston anc
Beauregard are now railroad presidents, anC
Jefferson Davis who rode over the field after th,
battle had been won, il the President, not of
Republic, but Of an Insurance Campany, a
Memphis. Gen. d. X. Jones, of South Carolina
who bore a conspicuous part in the fight, died o
| c. assumption during the war, in Richmond. Ger
Ewel, who afterwards lost leg, is now in pri
vate life, and LOngstreet is surveyor of fCHslOmi
at New Orleans. Wade Hampton is planting
cation. Lee and Johnson, of South Carolina
and BarstOw, 1.-THE last named One of the bes
soldiers and one Of the truest gentlemen of the
South, eminent at the bar and wise in council, 7,
were all killed on the field. Stnnswall Jacksol
and Jeb Stuart, the strength Of the Southern
army in the two arms of the service, survives
Bull Run to fall on other fields. Early, know
as Jubilee is a dwtlcr in the rural districts q
Virginia, which he finds, after all, more cunge
uial than the cold exile Of the Canadas.