The record-union., 1897-08-15

! ceived both, they displaying the rebel
and we the Union flag. Instantly q
blaze of fire was poured into the faces
of the combatants, each producing ter
rible destruction, owing to the close
proximity of the forces, which was
| followed by volley after volley in reg
ular and irregul order
That was the kind of fighting which
came of battle planned perfectly by
| both commanders. Just before the
battle General Beauregard issued to his
soldiers this stirring and reassuring ad-
| dress:
THE General commanding the Army
of the Potomac announces to his COM
mand that at length the enemy have
advanced to subjugate sovereign, and
| impose upon a free people an odious
| government. Notwithstanding their
numerical superiority, they can be re-
pelled and the General commanding re-
| lies confidently on his command to do
| it and to drive the invader back be-
yond his intrench lines; but to achieve
this the highest order of GOODNESS, in
dividual intelligence and obedience on
! the part of each officer and man are
essential. Great reliance will be placed
| OII lIlG DdyOnSl dI CAlS pIOPCA JuhSloiC
| but above ALI 1t is enjoined upon the
Offices and men to withhold their fire
until directed. The superior intelligence
of the individual members of this COM
mand should in this respect compen-
safe for the want of a veteran. long
| trained soldiery. In firing, each man
should take aim, and never discharge
| his piece without a distant object in
| full view"
| But before the day was half over he
| felt that he was defeated. His heart
| failed him, he wrote afterward to a
friend in a letter about the battle. He
felt as though all was lost, and he
wished that he had fallen iE the Skin
mish of two days before"
| The address, like the orders for the
| Identification of friends by badges, is
taken from a mass Of unpublished re-
ports and correspondence which has
come into the possession of the War
| Department since the publication of the
volume Of war records relating to the
! battle. They help materially the ur-
derstanding OF the event which opened
| the eyes of both sections to the differ
| ence between the theory and the prac-
/ tice of war.
What was Mcdowell doing when
Beauregard was wishing he had been
killed two days before?
| General Mcdowell" says Colonel
Martin of the Seventy-first New York
Militia, in one of these unpublished
reports, with his staff, rode around
| the field in the rear of our brigades,
waving his glove in token of victory,
| and we considered the day was ours.
| We were then ordered to retire TO the
edge Of the wood, and there to rest,
as we had done all the duty that would
be required of US, and would not be
called into action again.
In the early part of the day the troops
of Mcdowell pushed back the left wing
and center of Beauregard a mile and
more from the position occupied at day
break Around the Henry house, which
stood on hill and afforded fine place
| for making a stand, the battle ragged.
Old Mrs Henry lay helpless in her bed
when the sun rose. She was lifted out
and carried to a gully at the foot of
| the hill and left in charge of a negro
| girl The wave swept by her. After
a stubborn stand on the hight about
| the house the Confederates fell back.
/ The volleys grew fainter 1t became as
| quiet almost as on a July Sunday in
| 1897. Mrs. Henry believed she had
/ seen the last of the battle of Bull Run.
| She had the servants carry her back
up the mi and put her in bed. Later
in the day the noise began to increase.
| The volleys grew in distinctness. The
tide had turned. Over the same fields
upon which they had advanced the
| Northern troops fell back. They at
| tempted to stand on the hill about the
Henry house, and for the second time
that day the vortex of battle was
| there Then they dropped down the
hill and moved off in the direction of
| the stone bridge During the second
contest for control of the Henry house
shell fell upon the roof just above
the room in which the crippled woman
lay 1t exploded and killed her.
At the foot of the Henry Hill stands
the Stone House. 1t is mile and half
from the Stone bridge on the pike to-
lward Warrenton. 1t is at the intersec-
tion of that pike and the cross road from
Sudley mills to Manassas, the road by
which Mcdowell made his fanking
movement and struck the left wing of
Beaureguard, curling it up beautifully
from the standpoint of the lover of the
science of war. When Mcdowell
flanked, and the fighting became fast
and furious, the wounded Confederates
were carried into that Stone house and
laid in every room. When the regiments
of Beauregard fell back slowly upon
the nights of the Henry place the
Union wounded were carried into the
IStone House and put beside the Confed-
crates until there was scarcely room for
the surgeons to pass between. Stone
House stands to-day in the midst of the
Iholly hooks and the honeysucl1le. A rag
ged cash in the gable shows where a
solid shot tore it's way. The man who
lives in Stone House is an ex-Confed-
crate named Pridmore, who was in the
battle as a member of the Fourth Vir-
ginia-
McDowells main column coming by
the Sudley Mills road drove the left and
center of Beauregard backward over
the hills and fields until they came to
Hazel Plain. Then the Confederate re-
Iinforcements, arriving from the Shen-
Iandoah Valley, under Jackson, left the
Icars, and marching northward by the
Isound of the battle, fell upon the right
flank of Mcdowell, driving him back
ward over the identical fields he had
crossed victoriously u few hours before.
lThe Union troops fell back in tolerable
Iorder until they reached Bull Run and
there unaccountable panic came upon
men who had fought we'll from early
morning Once across the Stone bridge
land the fords the retreat became rout.
lF'rom Bull Run to Centerville and thence
10 Fairfax Court House. within sight of