The National tribune., 1898-04-28

| which, with Ricketts,, had done the
most effective fighting throughout, was
charged with effect by rebel regiment
which was enabled to approach it with
impunity by mistake of our officers,
who supposed it one of our own. Three
different attacks wer, repulsed with
slaughter, and the a terry remained in
our hands, though all its horses were
killed. At 8 p. M. the rebels had been
driven mile and . half, and were
nearly out of. sight, abandoning the
Warrenton road entirely to
OUR VICTORIOUS TROOPS
Gen. Tyler, on hearing the guns Of
Hunter on our right, had pushed Sher-
mans, and soon after Keyes's, Brigade
over the run to assail the enemy in his
front, driving them back after severe
struggle, and steadily advancing until
checked by heavy fire of artillery from
batteries on the nights above the road,
supported by brigade of rebel infantry
strongly posted behind breastworks
A gallant charge by the I'd Me. and
Sd Conn. temporarily carried the build
ings behind which the rebel guns
were sheltered; but the breastworks
were too strong, and our men, recoiling
from their fire, DETECTED to the left,
moving down the run under the shelter
of the bluff, covering the efforts of
Capt Alexander's pioneers to remove
the heavy abatis, whereby the rebels
had obstructed the road up from the
Stone Bridge.
This had at length been effected and
Schenck's Brigade and Ayres's battery,
of Tyler's Division, were on the point of
crossing the run to aid in completing our
triumph.
But the rebels, at first out-numbered
at the point of actual collision, had been
receiving reinforcements nearly all day ;
and, at this critical moment, Gen Kirby
Smith, who had that morning left Pied
mont, Is miles distant, with the remain
ing brigade of Gen. Johnston's army, APP
peared ON the field. Cheer after cheer
burst from the rebel hosts, but now so
downcast, as this timely reinforcement
rushed to the front of the battle.2 Smith
ACCOUNTS BY REBEL NEWSPAPERS.
2The Richmond Dispatch Of Aug. has
a spirited account of the battle, by an eve
witness, writing at Manassas Junction,
July %, from which we extract the fol-
lowing:
Between 2 and 3 o'clock, large num-
bers of men were leaving the field some
OF them wounded, others exhausted by the
long struggle, who gave as gloomy reports;
but, as the firing on both sides continued
steadily, we felt SUM that our brave South
erners had not been conquered by the
overwhelming hordHs of the North. It is
however, due TO truth 10 say that the re-
suit at this hour hung trembling in the
balance. We had lost hunters of our
most distinguishe ed officers. Gems. Barlow
and Bee had been stricken down; Lieut.
Col. Johnson, of the Hampton Legion, had
leen killed; Col. Hampton Rad been
IounCed.
General whose reputation as commander
was staited on this battle: Gen. Beaure-
gard promptly offered to1lcad the Hampton
Legion into action, which he executed i'm
style unsurpassed and unsurpassable
Gen. Beauregard rode up and down our
regardless of the heavy fire, cheering and
encouraging our troops. About this time,
q shell struck his horse, taking his head
off, and 1eling thcsfthoses of his AidspI
Messrs. ferguson and Hayward.
% Gen. Beauregard's Aids deserve honor
able mention, artcularly those Just
named, and Coils. w. Porcher Miles, James |
Chestnut, John l.. Manning, and A. r..
Chisholm. Gen. Johnston also threw him
SELF into the thickest of the fight, selling |
the colors OF a Georgia regiment, and rally |
ing them TO charge. His staff signalized |
Thomas being killed and Mai Mason |
wounded.
g Your correspondent heard Gen. John
ston exclaim to Gen. Cooke, just at the
critical moment, Oh, for four regiments =
His wish was answered; for in the distance
our reinfOrcements appeared. The tide of |
battle was turned in our favor by the
arrival Of Gen. Kirby Smith, from Win |
chester, with 900 men of Gen. Johnston's
Division. Gen. Smith heard while on the
Manassas railroad cars, the roar of battle.
He stopped the train, and hurried his
troops across the fields to the point lust
whe.e he was most needed. They were at
first supposed to be the enemy their
arrival at tina point of the field being en-
tirely unexpected. The enemy fell back
and panic seized them. Cheer after
cheer from our men went up and we knew
the battle had been wOn."
The Louisville Courier, thoroughly Sc
ccssion sheet, had an account from its cor
"Se De Kay, who was an
officer in the Kentucky battalion attached
to Gen. ,Johnston's army, which reached
the battlefield among the last, and who.
writing from Manassas, Monday, July %.
after stating that Beauregard had been
driven two miles, says:
'The fortunes of the day we're evidently
against us. Some of our best officers had
been slain, and the flower OF our army Law
5trewn upon the field, CHASTITY in death or
gaping with wounds. At noon, the can
is described as terrific. 1t was an
ncessant roar for more than two hours, the
havoc and devastation at this time being
eafful. Mcdowell, with the aid of Pat
erson's Division of 20 600 men, had nearly
act OF possessing themselves Of the railway
@ Richmond. Then all would have been
ost But, most OpportCnely--I may say
this Juncture Gen John
'ton, with the remnant of his division-our
army, an we fondly call it, for we have been