Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-08-23
SELECT.
BULL RUN.
Vivid Description OF That Dis
astrOus Fight RS Seen by
u Butler County Lawyer.

From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
BUTLER, PA, Aug. Tt is doubt
less true, as you say" assented Ken
nedy Marshall as we sat chatting to-
getber in bis airy law Office here, the
other bot evening, and whistled for
a breeze at is doubtless true that
newspaper men tell more truth in a
year than the majority of men in out
side professions do in lifetime, and |
do not wonder that you are grieyed
when ignorant or malicious people try
to escape unpleasant truths by attack
ing the writer of them. Now, there was
"Bull Run" Russell, for instance, the
famous correspondent of the London
Times, who criticised the conduct of
our soldiers at Bull Run 80 sharply
They have tried to blunt the point Of
bis criticism by asserting that he
WASN'T there at all. The truth is that
our soldiers had no conduct worth
mentioning after o'clock in the after
noon, and Mr.. Russell was there when
the stampede took place; for he divided
his lunch with me. Furthermore, we
would have ridden 10 Washington TO-
gether after the rout if his horse could
have travelled fast enough. But it
was tired, and rode away from him,
and 80 happened TO be the first to carry
the news of the defeat to Washington"
Once into the field of reminiscence.
Mr.. Marshall could not well escape
telling the whole of bis interesting ex-
perience on that hot Sunday al Manas-
sas, requesting only that his name
should not he published. AS he much
resembles his Pittsburgh uncle, Tom.
recently mentioned In the Stalwart
journals "the Glorious" it goes with
ont saving that he is an admirable
story teller, and that stenographer
could have given a much more graphic
report of this conversation than /.
THE PICNIC IN '6l.
Richmond was quite a popular
summer resort in July, '6l," said Mr..
Marshall, "and o great number Of
Northerl people, politicians, congress
men, gentlemen of leisure, ladies fond
of q little well-regulated excitement,
clergymen singing for virgin territory,
and business men seeking for a specu-
lation, made up their minds to take
flying trip to this new capital of the
Southern confederacy. Our army Of
gallent young recruits, led by the val
liant Mcdowell, under the direction Of
the sagacious Scott was to go ahead.
The rebel soldiers had been massed at
convenient points in sufficient numbers
to assist with the fireworks and furnish
entertainment for the visitors. The
campaign was to be huge picnic at
government expense, and | went along
with hundreds of others to see the fun.
| was member of the Pennsylvania
legislature, and the malaria common
to legislative halls had left me half an
invalid. Ben. Morgan, Charles Spang,
Jr., of Spang, Chalfant & Co, John
Shaw, then flour inspector OF Alleghe-
nv county, since burned to death at
Scottdale, and Charles Clark of Clark
Il Thaw, all Pittsburgers, were with
me- There never was so large and
respectable lot of camp followers as
those who followed our army out from
Washington. Many of the most dis
tinguished men of the country were
there aud there was no lack of good
company.
1--WE were just beginning to tire ol
the picnic, and were preparing to re
turn to Washington to spend Sunday
when on Saturday one of Gen. Me
Dowell's aids told us that they were
going to attack the enemy that night
There was apparently no attempt tt
keep the matter secret. AT ono O'Clock
Sunday morning, July 81,
THE TROOPS BEGAN TO MOVE"
ave left our carriage and followed
them on foot | got separated from
my party, and fell in with Henry j
Raymond OF tho New York Times
We followed the right-hand column
under Hunter. You know how tn
battle was fought at first; how thei
skirmish line was chased, their bat
teries charged and the entire left win
Of the rebel army rolled back beyon
the Warranton road. We whippe
. them fairly In the early hours of th
: fight, and about o'clock in the after
' noon Raymond and ! sitting besid
the road near the Warrenton ston
bridge, were well in the rear Of ou
| advancing right. 1t was hotter da
than this, and we were tired, half sic
with the smell oil powder and yer
j. hungry. Along the road came Russo
on horseback, with big knapsack {
provisions behind him. He was O