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The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-08
THE FAULT OF THE DEFEAT.

That General Logan is pronounced
in his opinions as to whose fault the
defeat at Bull Run is due is shown by
the following, which prefaces the ac-
count of the battle:
General Mcclellan, IN command of
the Department OF the Ohio, had how
ever, crossed the Ohio river, and by the
4th of July, being at Grafton, West
Virginia, with his small army of Union
troops, to which greatly inferior rebel
force was opposed, commenced that
successful advance against it which led,
after Bull Run, to his being placed at
the head of all the armies of the United
States. Subsequently Patterson crossed
the Potomac, and after trifing away
over one month time, at last, on July
IS, got within nine miles of Winchester
and Johnston's army. Barring spirit
less reconnaissance, Patterson (who
was fervent Breckenridge Democrat
in politics, and whose military judg-
ment, as we shall see, was greatly IN
luenced, if not entirely controlled, by
his chief of staff Fit John Porter, J
never got any nearer to the enemy. In
stead of attacking the rebel force un-
der Johnston, or at least keeping it
'employed,' as he was ordered to do by
General Scott instead OF getting nearer
and attempting to get between Win
chester and the Shenandoah river, as
was suggested to him by his second in
command-General Sanford-and in
stead Of permitting Sanford to 90
ahead, Is that General desired to. with
his own 5000 men, and do it himself,
The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-08

First Lady-"Mrs. Gibbs, hear that
your husband has failed.'
Second Lady.-"Yes. He is the most
unfortunate man | ever knew; fails in
everything he undertakes. He tried to
hang himself after his failure"
First Lady.-''Poor man! Did he sue
ceed?"
Second Lady.-"No. Failed even in
tlat The rope broke"
The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-08

The Cause of the Defeat and Where the
Fault Lies-The beginning of the Con-
hict-Burnside's Brave Attack-The
Part of the Rebel Generals.
General Logan in his forthcoming
work-"rhe Great Consplracy"-de-
scrbes but one battle it is that of
Bull Run. at is foreign to the design
of this work" " he says, ''to present in
ii detailed descriptions OF the battles
waged during the great war of tie re-
bellion-it being the present intention
of the writer at some later day to pre-
pare and publish another work devoted
to such stirring military scenes. Yet.
as it might seem strange and unac-
countable for him to pass by at this
time, without any description or com-
ment, the first pitched battle of the re-
bellion, he is constrained to pause and
view that memorable contest"
The chapter containing this account
is NH. 1t is entitled "The Storm of
Battle 1t is sixty-fve pages in length,
and will undoubtedly be pronounced
one of the most clear and graphic de
scriptions of that famous and eventful
contest ever written. Through the
courtesy of the publishers a reporter
was permitted to glance over the proof
sheets Of the chapter. The opening
gives the military situation preceding
the battle, in which the General says
1--WE have seen how Fort Sumter fell I;
how the patriotic North responded to
President Lincoln's call for 5000
three months volunteers with such en-
thusiasm that, had there been a suffi-
cheney of arms and accoutrements, he
might have had within three months of
that call an army Of 500, 900 men in
the field how he had called for u 900
three-years' volunteers early in May,
besides swelling what little there was of
regular army by ten full regiments,
and how a strict blockade of the entire
Southern coast line had not only been
declared but was now enforced and re-
spected."
The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-08
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"The prayer Of the wicked ayaiIcth
not" It's said, yet neverwa5 the prayer
of the righteous more quickly answered
than is that of the rebel Generai-in-
Chief! Johnston himself, alludiag to
this exigent moment, afterward remarks
in his report "The expected rein
forcements appeared soon after" In
stead of Pattcrson's Union army it is
Kirby Smith coming up with Eley's
brigade from Winchester
The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-08

/ General Patterson ordered him off tC
, Charlestown, twelve miles to the UniOr
left and rear and then took the bal
anCe OF the army with himself to the
same place. In other words, while he
had the most positive and definite Or
ders from General Scott if not to attack
and whip Johnston, to at least keep
him busy and prevent that rebel Gen
eral from forming a junction, via the
Manassas Gap Railroad or otherwise,
with Beauregard, Patterson deliberately
moved his army further away from Win
chester, and gave to the enemy the
very chance of escaping and forming
that junction which was essential to
rebel success in the vicinity of NIanas-
sas. But for this disobedIence of or
ders Bull Run would doubtless have
been great victory for the Union
arms, instead of a reverse, and the war,
which afterward lasted for years, might
have been over in as many months"
The Generals vivid imagination is
especially shown in his account of the
consultation between Beauregard and
Johnston before the battle and its re-
suit on the formers mind:
"At this consultation it is agreed by
the two rebel Generals to assume the
offensive at once. Beauregard pro
poses plan of battle, which is an i'm
mediate general advance of the rebel
centre and left, concentrating from all
the fords of Bull Run upon Centreville,
while the rebel right advances toward
Sansster's Cross Roads, ready to fall
either on Centreville or upon Fairfax
Court House in its rear, according to
circumstances. The plan proposed is
accepted at once by Johnston. The
necessary order is drawn up by Beau
regard that night and at I so O'Clock
on Sunday morning, July 2T, Johnston
signs the written order. Nothing now
remains, apparently, but the delivery of
the order to the rebel brigade COM
manders, hurried preparation for the
forward movement, and theu the grand
attack upon Mcdowell at Centreville.
Already, no doubt, the fevered brain Of
Beauregard pictures in his vivid imagi-
nation the invincible thunders of his
artillery, the impetuous advance of his
infantry, the glorious onset of his cav
airy, the flight and rout of the Union
forces, his triumphal entry into Wash
ington-Lincoln and Scott and Con
gress crouching at his feet-and the
victorious South and conquered North
acclaimlng him dictator. The plan is
Beaurcgard's own, and Beauregard is
to have command. Hence all the glory
of capturing the Nationral Capital must
be Beauregard's. Why not? But man
proposes and God disposes.' The ad-
vance and attack are, in that shape,
never to be made
The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-08

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The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-08
REEEL GENERALS.

II is about this time that the chiet
rebel generals find their position SC
desperate as to nccessitate eXtraordi.
nary measures and personal exposure
on their part. Now it is that Jackson
earns the famous sobriquct which sticks
to him until he dies. Now it is that
Johnston and Beauregard, accompanied
by their stails, ride backward and for,
ward along the rebel ranks, raliying and
encouraging them. Now it IS that Bee
and Barlow and Hampton being
wounded and the Lieutenant Colonel
of the Hampton Legion killed. Beau
regard leads a gallant charge Of that
legion in person. And now it IS that
Johnston, himself, finding all the field
officers Of the Fourth Alabama dis
abled, ''impre5siyey and gallantly''
charges to the front with the colors OF
that regiment at his side These CON
spicuous examples OF bravery inspire
the rebel troops with fresh courage, at
this admittedly critical" moment.
There is a hull in the battle. The
terrible heat is eXhausting TO the COM
batants on both sides. Griffin and
Ricketts, have wrought such havoc
with their guns that nothing remains
to be fred at" Victory seems most
surely to be ours. Away down at his
headquarters at the Lewis House the
rebel General Johnston stands watch
ing the progress of the battle as it goes
against him. NeryousIy he gianccs
every now and then as if expecting
something. An officer is 2alloping to-
ward him from Manassas. lie comes
from the office Of Beauregards adju-
tant general, at that point. He rides
up and salutes. General" says he
breathlessly, "a United States army
has reached the line Of the Manassas
Cap Railroad, and is now but three Or
four miles from our left flank !' John
ston clenches his teeth neryouslY.
Thick beads Of perspiration start from
his forehead. He believes it Is Pat
terson's army that has followed upon
his heels" from before Winchester,
faster than has been anticipated, and,
as he thinks of Kirby Smith, who
should long since have arrived with
Elzey's brigade-all of his own army
of the Shenandoah" that has not yet
followed him to Maaassas-the eX-
c1amation Involuntary bursts from his
The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-08
THE BATTLE BEGUN y.

THE BATTLE BEGUN.
Mcdowell in the meantime, all un-
conscious of what has transpired in the
Shenandoah valley and between there
and Manassas, never dreaming for an
instant that Patterson had failed to
keep Johnston there-even if he has
not attacked and defeated him ut
terly unsuspicious that his own lessened
Union army has now to deal with the
forces of Johnston and Beauregard
combined-wlth a superior instead Of
an inferior force, is executing a plan o.
battle which he has decided upon, and
announced to his general officers on
that same Saturday evening at his head
quarters in Centreville. At 6 80 \. NJ,
'Taylors artillery gets into position to
cannonade the enemy's batteries on
the west bank of Bull Run command
ing the Stone Bridge, and opens fire.
Half an hour before this (6 A. Ny, the
rebel artillcrists, posted on a hill south
of the pike, and GOO yards west of the
bridge, have caught sight of Tyler's
Union blue jackets. Those of the
rebel gunners whose eyes are directed
to the northeast soon see, nearly a mile
away, up the gradual slope, puff OF
blue smoke. Immediately the bang of
a solitary rifle cannon is heard, and
the scream of rifled shot as it passes
over their heads. At intervals, until
past 9 A. NJ, that piece and others in
the same position keep hammering
away at the rebel left under Evans, at
Stone Bridge.
1t is 9 80 O'Clock before Burnside's
brigade has crossed the Bull Run
stream, at Sudley's Ford, and the head
of Andrew Porter's brigade commences
to ford it. The troops are somewhat
slow in crossing. They are warm, tired,
thirsty, and as to dust-their hair and
eyes and nostrils and mouths are full of
it, while most of the uniforms, once
blue, have become dirty gray. The
sky is clear. The sun already is fercely
hot. The men stop to drink and fill
their canteens. 1t is well they do.
Mcdowell, who has been waiting two
or three hou.s at the turn, impatient at
the delay, has ridden over to the front
of the Franklin column and now
reaches Sudley's Ford. He feels that
much valuable time is already lost. His
plan has, in a measure, been frustrated
by delay.
Evans finds himself ponderlng the
meaning of those long lines of dust
away to his left, and then, like a flash,
it burst upon him that all this military
hubbub in his front and far away to his
right is but a feint that the real danger
is somehow connected with that mys-
terious far-away rumble and those lines
| Of yellow dust that the main attack is
TO be on the unprepared left and rear
of the rebel position. No sooner has
the rebel brigade commander thus di-
vined the Union plan Of attack than he
prepares, with the limited force at his
command, to thwart it. Burnside and
he are about equi-distant by this time
from the intersection of the Sudley
road, running south, with the Warren
ton pike running west. Much depends
upon which of them shall be the first
to reach it-and the instructive, intui-
tive knowledge of this spurs Evans to
his utmost energy. He leaves four oi
his fifteen companies, and Rogers sec
ton Of the Loudon artillery-whiCh
has come up from Cookies brigade, al
the ford belOw-tO defend the 3DDro =
The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-08


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pushes f,rwartl and ,r,;o;na n,cl,
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loop of Youno's branch forms hi, linz
of battle upon that clevation-wbIch
somewhat comncns,.es him fer H., in
ferioritv Of his nnmbcrs- nc,rIv .,
right angles to the Bull Run line r3n-
idly puts his artillery in position the
rebel guns open on BurnsiIe's advance
their hoarse roar soon supplemented
by the rattle of rebel muskctry and the
answering roar and rattle Of the Union
onset : and the battle Of Euu Run has
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The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-08

During l,SJ we shipped 2,S16 club orders which
is the best evidence we can furnish that our Sys.
TEN finds with that large class of purchaser
who cannot spare time To Y sit Phlade phia. and
who find it impossible To secure pure Teas and
freshly roasted CoftccS satisfactorily at home.
The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-08

T" those getting MP Clubs we would respectfully
suggest that the name of each purchaser as alSu
their order, he written as distinctly as possible.
Club forms and printed envelopes will be lurn
The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-08
TEAS.

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nnLONCi -. 10. ~, 6O cts. per III.
YOUNG HlSuN. 35. 10, 30. 90 cts. per HI.
JAPAN. 81, 10 30. to cts per lb.
IMPERIAL. -. -, 81, 60. 20 cts. per H.
GUNPOW DER. Sl.0U per III.
ENGLISH BREAKFAST, 30. ~, -, doc. T. H.
THEA NECTAR 70 cts. per ID.
TEA DUST, - cts. per III.
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COEEEIES.

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ROASTED ID, Is, ~. %. 80 cts p H.
GROUND 10. -, %, 81 cts. T. H.
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The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-08

Henry NJ. Mccullough, Administrator d. b. H. c
t. a. OF Sarah f. Beaston. VS.. Rebecca G. Tay,
Ior. Clara Mary Cochran Charles A. Lunl
and Charles Beaston, Jr.
In Equity in the Circuit Court for Cecil County
The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-08
Ro"'"'s 1"'''o''. Fiction.
BATTLE OF BULL RUN
Described by Gen. Logan in His
Forthcoming Book.

The Cause of the Defeat and Where the
Fault Lies-The Beginning of the Con-
hict-BurnsiIe's Brave Attack-The
Part of the Rebel Generals.
The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-08

Joiner, joining the oaken seam,
All SO lonely and dusty gray,
Shaking thy head in waking dream,
Where he thy fellows of yesterday?
Sharp County record., 1886-12-23
Violations of Business Honor.
rDry Goods Chronicle.l


An old mercantile authority says thai
honor is violated when a man uses inform
alton confidentially intrusted TO him to
anticipate the informer. A man violates
the laws of honor when he takes advan-
tage of anothers unskillfulness or mex
perience, or the techncalities OF the law
to impose on him, A man acts dishonor-
ably when he dose not make sacrifices to
pay his debts promptly; when ho attempts
to raise the market price on another buy
er; when he sells below the marFct price
to get away his neighbors customers;
when he is unmindful of fsHors; when he
does not allow his clerks aN' dependents
to share in his prosperity. and in all cases
when he does acts which, if thoroughly
understood, would tend to lower aim in
the estimation of his customers or Of any
good man.
Sharp County record., 1886-12-23
EccIesias stical SneculatiOn.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 14.-Father Palmer,
the cathedral priest who was arrested
Saturday upon charge of surreptitiously
importing wine and selling it to bar-rooms,
was before the United States Commls-
sioner Yesterday and admitted that he had
disposed of wines left over from commun-
ion to different parties, but stated that ne
had sold it at original cost and without
thought of profit or gain. The commits
sioner has not yet made decision. Judge
Tissot of the State Court Yesterday re
fused the application of Father Palmer for
custody of the two orphan girls, who will
remain with the Sacho family. In his de-
cision the Judge was rather severe upon
the conduct of the priest toward children
Sharp County record., 1886-12-23
wellington on His Knees.
fLoudon Society,"

A capital story about the Iron Duke is
one which Sir Francis Doyle learned from
his father, to whom Wellington told it HIM
self in his own characteristic language,
when the elder Doyle was dining at Apsley
House: "After the battle of Talavera
wanted the Spanish force to make move
ment, and called upon Cuesta to take the
necessary steps, but he demurred. he
said, by way of answer: For the honor OF
the Spanish Crown can not attend to the
directions of the British General, unless
that British General go upon his knees
and untreat me to follow his advice
Now, wanted the thing done, while as to
going down on my knees l didn't care a
button, so down plu nped."
Sharp County record., 1886-12-23

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Sharp County record., 1886-12-23

WE would be pleased to know Of a man
or woman who has never had headache or
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Sharp County record., 1886-12-23
The Amenities of Journalism.
rMedical and Surgical Reporter.l

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Sharp County record., 1886-12-23
Suffering WomanhOod.

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quote from the Generals letter as follows:
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pound Mrs. Barringcr was treated for
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Sharp County record., 1886-12-23

Legislation should be effected in every
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plexions, while there exists in DR.. Harter's
Iron Tonic every requisite necessary to &C
complish the object without injuring the
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Sharp County record., 1886-12-23
Pains and Aches

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Sharp County record., 1886-12-23

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Sharp County record., 1886-12-23

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Sharp County record., 1886-12-23

WHY is sugar madein the old style prefer
able to that made in the new style! Be-
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Sharp County record., 1886-12-23

You would not, perhaps, expect it, but 1t
is a fact, that we'll water will sometmes'
make people sick.-BoSton Post.
Sharp County record., 1886-12-23

THE ocean is like a good housewife-very
tidy.-B0StOn Post.
Sharp County record., 1886-12-23

THE vital question: "What is a sausagep
is being discussed before Nebraska court.
!! is believed the jury will disagree.-Nor-
riSiogu Herald.
Sharp County record., 1886-12-23

EA CLARK, U. S Architect, certites to
the efficacy of Red Star Cough Cure
Sharp County record., 1886-12-23

II afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
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Sharp County record., 1886-12-23

THE man that ought to suit you we'll
gour tailor Whitehall Times.
Sharp County record., 1886-12-23

THE best cough medicine is PiSo's Cure
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