The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-06-17
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 Coloneps Speech-Ths Results
of Great Blunder.
GBut during the victorious lull, some.
thing is happening on our side that IS Oh
yerv serious moment. Let us see WnaG IL
is The batteries of Griffin and R!cketts'
at the Dogan house, having nothlng 10
fire at, as we have seen, are resting, pleaseo
with the consciousness of their brilliant
and victorious service against the repel
batteries and infantry columns, when they
ara ordered by McDowell-who, with his
staff. is upon elevated ground to the rear
of our right-to advance l, 900 yards further
to the front, upon hill near the henry
house Ricketts, considers this IS peril
GUS Job, but proceeds to execute the order
as to his own battery. 4 small raYlne Is
in his front. With Ricketts, gallantly lead
ing, the battery dashes across the raVlne
at full gallop, breaking one wheel as IL
goes. which is at once replaced. A renee
lies across the way. The cannoneers de,
molish it, The battery ascends the hiu
near the Henry house, which IS tuu OF tne
enemy's sherpshooters. Soon as RlcKett's
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 means of the wounded the death
screams Of Z woman, is heard! The enemy
had permitted her to remain in her doomed
house!
4 CONFEDERATE CoLoNEL's SPEECH.
sGrifIin, as he comes up with his guns,
goes into battery Oil the left OF Rlcketts,
and at once opens briskly on the enemy.
One of Griffin's guns has ball lodged IN
the bore, which can not be got in or out.
His other five guns, with the six guns OF
Ricketts,. make eleven pieces, whlch are
now side by side, all of them driving away
at the enemy's (Stonewal JacHsons)
strong batteries, not more than 3Co yarus
away. They have been at it half an hour,
perhaps, when Griffin moves two OF MS
nieces to the right of Ricketts,, and COM
mences firing with them. He has hardly
been there five minutes when repel
regiment. coming out OF the WOODS a5
Grittin's right front, gets over rail- fence,
its colonel steps out between his regiment
(now standing up to the knees II rank
grass and the battery, and commences
speech to his men. Griffin orders one OF
his officers to load with canister anu leu
drive at them. The guns are loaded and
ready to fire, when up gallops Ba!ry, ex-
claiming: Captain, don't fire there; those
are your battery supports.
"At this supreme moment Reynolds
cor looking marines are sitting down
in close column on the ground to the le1t
Of the Union batteries. The snowy EleV-
enth New York Fire ZOuaves are little
to the rear Of the right OF these guns.
The gallant fourteenth New York Chas-
seurs, in their dust-covered red uniforms,
who had followed Griftith's battery at
some distance, have, only little while
since, pushed finely up from the ravlne at
the rear of our batteries into the woods 10
the right of Griffin and Ricketts, at
double-uuick. To the left of the batteries
close to the battalion Of marines, Helnt-
yelman bestrides his horse, near some OF
his own division. To Maj. Barry's start
ling declaration, Capt Griffin excitedly
shouts: "Iney are Confedefates! Sure as
the world, they are Confederates." Bu1
Barry thinks he knows better, and hastily
resuonds: 7 know they are your battery
support Griffin spurs towards his pieces,
countermands his previous order, and tlr-
inc is resumed in the old direction.
aAverell, 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
.hosey" he asks of Gen. Heintzelman,
pointing in their direction. While Helnt-
Zelran is replying, and just as Averell
drops his reins and levels his 1ield-Slass at
tham, down come their pieces-ritles ana
muskets-and probably, as Averell after
ward said, there never was such de-
structive fire for few minutes. IL
seemed as if every man and horse Of that
battery Just lay down and died right off,
RESULTS OF A TERRIBLE BLUNDEE.
at is 4 dreadful mistake that has been
made. And there 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
them to the right again, marched them
about forty yards toward us, then opened
fire upon us-and that was the last of us?
at is a terrible blunder. For up to this
moment the battle is undeniahly ours.
And while the rebel colonel has been ha-
ranguing his brave men there has been
plenty of time to have passed the word
along the lines OF our batteries, and
poured canister into the rebel regiment
from the whole line of eleven guns at
point-blauk range, which must have in
evitably have cut it to pieces. The fate of
the day hung balanced right there and
then-with all the chances in favor
of Mcdowell. But those chances are
now reversed. Such are the tickle
changes in the fortunes of battle! instead
of our batteries cutting to pieces the rebel
infantry regiment the rebel infantry regi-
ment has moved down the gallant artil-
lcrists of our batteries. Hardly man OF
them escapes. Death and destruction reap
awondrous and instant harvest. Wounded,