The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-26
ItecOilecti0ns of Bull Run.

Last Saturday, July the 2lst, was the
9th anniversary of the great battle OF
the war between the States. At that
time it was regarded, both North and
South, as great battle-it was great
victory for the Contederates and an
overwhelming defeat for the Northern
army, but rs the tide Of war rolled on
the battle Of Manassas sank into insig-
niticauce when compared with such
great battles as the seven days fighting
around Richmond, Fredericksburg,
Sharpsburg, Chicamauga, Gettysburg
and various other great battles where
the slain and wounded were numbered
by eight and ten thousand on either
side. In the first battle of Manassas,
according to official reports, the loss in
killed in the Confederate army was 37S
wounded, 1,4S9-nissing 30-total
loss, 1879. On the Union side the Off
ci;i report shows 4S1 killed, 1,0l1
wounded, and 800 prisoners.
Twenty-seven years ago the 21st
came on Sunday. On that ever mem-
orable Sunday morning the signal guns
Of McDowelPs army (Union) aroused
the sleeping soldiers of both armies.
Our guns, (Beauregard's), soon re-
sponded, and troops were hurried into
position. Mcdowell, while making a
feint on our right and centre, masked
his troops on our extreme left, and
effected Il crossing of Bull Run soon
after sunrise. Beauregard hurried
troops from the right to the left to meet
the attack. and the great fight began in
earnest. McDowell's artillery kept up
an incessant but almost harmless fire on
our right and centre, which had the
effect of keeping Beauregard's line in
tact at these points, and preventing the
use of his troops on the left where they
were SO badly needed. The battle
ragged turiously nearly the whole of the
sunday. The continuous laundering
of the caunon and rattle of deadly mus.
kerry was awfully sublime. McDowelTs
great number of soldiers pressed us
sorely, and We were losing ground,
though every inch was hotly and stub.
bornly contested. In the afternoon it
seemed as if the field was certainly lost
to us, when the happy arrival of col
umn of Johnson's troops from the Val.
ley. under Kirby Smith, who fell upon
McDowell's right, dealing death and
destruction in the Union ranks, thereby
throwing the Yankee army into the
greatest disorder and confusion. They
soon became panic-stricken and fled
inglorlously from the field.
The scene which then followed beg.
gars description. Every Northern sol
der was fleeing for dear life. He haG
no thought for his fellow. He divesteC
himself of all his fighting parapher.
MALTA, and everything else that woulc
| impede his progress. Guns, cannon
wagons, amDulances, caisons, horses
ammunition, blankets, rubbers, tents
comnlissary stores and everything else
was abandoned in disorder and confu
sion. The slledaddle was general, ant
the great Northern cry of "On to Rich
mond' was now changed to "Back K
| Washington and it was made at thi
double-quick.
\ great many fashionable and society
people from Washington, and Senator
and Representatives, and persons il
| high places came out to Bull Run, il
fine carriages. with drivers in livery
bringing costly wines and expensive
luncheon with them to feast upon wher
they saw the Rebels backs. The,
too, like the poor soldiers, became pan
ic-stricken and fled, and though it il
| now twenty-seven Years since thcs
things happened, | am still glad, yer.
glad, that these fellows in high place
| had to fly for life and leave their goO(
things behind. Yes, l am SO g lad tina
| could right now give one real heart.
old rebel yell.
Thus ended the first great battle o
the war. We lost number of goot
men; they were all good men; th'
brave and Barlow and Bee were among
our slain. 1t was here that jackson
received unknowingly the immorta
so6ripuet, "Stonewall." 1t happened
in this wise: Col. Bees men had beer
fighting for hours most desperately
and from sheer exhaustion, were way
ering and tiattering, when Col. Bee, by
way cf encouragement, called to hi!
men in somewhat this language, "stanc
firm men, look at Jackson's men, (they
were near, they are standing like q,
stone wall" Stone walls are the com
mon fencing in Northern Virginia, ane
were great protection to the line O
soldiers who were fortunate enough t.
find it convenient to form behind ont
in line of battle. One of the results o
this battle was, that both sides recog
nizcd the fact that this business was t.
be no child's play, nor even three
months job. Lincoln immediatel,
called for half million men 'to sup
press the rebellion" The Confederate
authorities were not slow in perfectin!
plans, recruiting and disciplining tn
troops. 1t needed no extraordlnar!
intelligence to see that there was
long and bloody struggle ahead:
| IJBE.
Death of E. z. Roe.