, 1886-06-16
BATTLE OF BULL RUN.
EXTRACTS FROM GEN. LOGAN'S DE-
SCRIPTlON OF THE CONTEST.

Who Was to Blame for the Defeat and
Rout of the Federal Forces-A Confed-
crate Colonel's s~peech-The Results
of "A Great BIunder.
"But during the victorious lull, some
thing is happening OF our side that is of
very serious moment. Let us see what it
is. The batteries of Griffin and Ricketts,.
at the Dogan house, having nothing to
fire at, as we have seen, are resting, pleased
with the consciousness of thek BRILLIANT
and victorious service against the rebel
batteries and infantry columns, when they
are ordered by McDowell-who, with his
staff, is upon elevated ground to the rear
of our right-to advance 900 yards further
to the front, upon n hill near the Henry
house. Ricketts, considers this is n peril
Gus Job, but proceeds to execute the order
rs to his W battery. A small ravine is
in his front. With Ricketts, calamity lead
ing, the battery dashes across the ravine
at full gallop, breaking one wheel as it
goes, which is Mt once replaced. A fence
lies across the way. The %cannoneers de-
molish it. The battery ascends the hill
near the Henry house, which is full of the
enemy's sharpshooters. Soon as Ricketts,
gets his guns in battery. his men and
horses begin to fall under the fire of these
sharpshooters. He turns his guns upon
the Henry house and literally riddles it,
Amid the moans of the wounded the death
scpeams of a woman is heardl The enemy
had permitted her to remain in her doomed
housel
CONFEDERATE COLONELS SPEECH
Griffin, as he comes up with his guns,
goes into battery on the left Of Ricketts,,
and at once opens briskly on the enemy.
One Of Grinin's guns has a ball lodged in
the bore, which can not be got in or out.
His other five guns with the six gum of
Ricketts,, make eleven pieces, which are
now side by side, all of them driving away
at the enemy's (Stonewall J~ackson's)
strong batteries, not more than 800 yards
away. They have been at 1t half an hour,
perhaps, when Griffin moves two of his
pieces to the right of Ricketts,, and com
mences firing with them. He has hardly
been there five minutes when a rebel
regiment, coming out of the woods at
Grifin's right front, gets over a rail fence,
its colonel steps out between his regiment
NOV standing up to the knees in rank
grass and the battery, and commences n
speech to his menl Griffin orders one of
his officers to DAD with canister and let
drive at them. The guns are loaded and
ready to fire. when up gallops Barry, ex-
claiming: Captain, don't fire Their, those
are your battery supports
AT this supreme moment Reynolds
demonstrating marines are sitting down
in close column on the ground the left
of the Union batteries. The snowy Elev-
enth New York Fire Zouaves are a little
to the rear of the right of these guns
The gallant Fourteenth New ork Chas-
seurs, in their d~ust-covered red uniforms,
who had followed Grifith's battery at
some distance, have, only a little while
since, pushed finely up from the ravine at
the rear of our batteries into the woods to
the right of Griffin and Ricketts, at a
double quick. To the left of the batteries
close to the battalion of marines, Heint-
zelman bestrides his horse, near some of
his own division. To Maj. Barry's start
ling declaration, Capt. Griffin excitedly
shouts: "They are Confederatesi Sure US
the world, they are Confederatesl" But
Barry thinks he knows better, and hastily
responds: 4 know they are your battery
support Griffin spurs towards his pieces,
countermands his previous order, and fir
ing is resumed in the old direction.
"Averell, assistant adjutant general to
Gen. Andrew Porter, has just ridden to
Heintzelman's side, and now catches sight
of the rebel regiment. What troops are
those," he asks of Gen. Heintzelman,
pointing In their direction. While Heint-
zelman is replying, and just as Averell
drops his reins and levels his feld-glhss at
them, down come their pieces-rifies and
muskets-and probably, as Averell after
ward said, there never was such a de-
structive fire for n few minutes 1t
seemed as If every man and horse of that
battery just lay down and died right off,
RESULTS OF A TERRIBLE BLUNDER.
at Is a dreadful mistake hat has been
made. And thce seems to have been no
excuse for it either. The deliberateness of
the rebel colonel had given Barry abund-
ant time to have discovered his error. For
Griffin subsequently declared, under oath,
that after the officer who had been talk
ing to the regiment had got through, he
faced them to the left, marched them
about fifty yards to the woods, then faced
them to the right again, marched them
about forty yards toward us, then opened
fire upon us~-and hat was the last of usl'
at is n terrible blunder. For up to this
moment the battle is %undeniably ours.
And while the rebel colonel has been ha-
ranguing his brave men there has been
plenty OF time to rave passed the word
along the lines of our batteries, and
poured canister into the rebe, regiment
from the whole line of eleven guns at
point blank range, which must have in
evitably have cut 1t to pieces. The fate Of
the day hung balanced right there and
then-with all the chance in favor
of Mcdowell. But those chances are
now reversed. Such are the tickle
changes in the fortunes of battlel instead
OF our batteries cutting to pieces the rebel
infantry regiment the rebel infantry regi-
ment has moved down the gallant artil-
lerists of our batteries. Hardly a man OF
them escapes. Death and destruction reap
a wondrous and instant harvest. Wounded,
dying, or dead lie the brave c%annoneers at
their guns, officers and men alike hors de
combat, while wounded horses gallop
wildly back with bounding caissons down
the gentle declivity, carrying disorder and
further danger in their mad flight. The
supporting Fire Zouaves and marines on
the right and left OF our guns stand with
staring eyes n dumb, open mouths at
the sudden turn OF affairs. They are abso-
lutely paralyzed with establishment. They
do not run at first. They tand quaking
and panic-stricken. They are urged TO ad-
vance upon the rebel regiment, to give
them a voliey and then try the bayonet.'
In vainl They fire perhaps n hundred
scattered shots and receive in return. as
they break and run down the hill to the
rear. volley after volley of deadly lead
from the rebel muskets. Gen. John A.
Logan's Book.
Tho American Az the Hest.
Mr.. Gladstone has many axes sent him
as presents. and he says that the American
AK is one OF the best made, though he does