The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-06-13

IRE Oh Inc enemy LOT nearly the WnOIe
distance. with no shelter whatever into
which they could retire and be reor-
ganiZed To attack this position were
the brigades of Franklin, Wilcox and
Sherman, with Palmer's battalion OF
Regular cavalry and Ricketts's and
Griffin's Regular batteries. Porter's
Brigade had been badly shaken in the
recent struggle. and. like Burnsides
took little further part. The 9th n. Y.
under Col. afterwards Maj. Gen. }
H. w. Slocum. had charged Bees men
in and around the Stone Bridge and
driven them behind their battery. The
battery itself was finally driven off by
the musketry fire. but force of the
enemy coming up under the shelter of
the bushes fired a deadly volley into
the regiment which killed and wounded
many. Among the latter was Col. Slo-
cum, who received a musket ball in
mis- thigh. and turned over the COM
mand TO Maj. J. ]. Bartlett, who brot
| the regiment and part of the Sth N. Y.
S. NJ. off the field.
Beauresard's Account.
Beauregard in his contribution to
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,
says. in speaking of this stage of the
battle, that he and Johnston had de-
cided to go to the left:
Il ordered Ewell, Jones and Long
street TO make strong demonstration
al along their front on the other side
of the Run, and ordered the reserves
below our position. Holiness Brigade,
with six guns, and Early's Brigade,
also two regiments of Bonham's Bri-
gade, near at hand. to move swiftly to
the left. Gen. Johnston and / now set
out at full speed for the point of con-
1ict. We arrived there just as Bees
troops, after giving away. were fleeing
in disorder behind the hight in the rear
of the Stone Bridge. They had come
around between the base of the hill
and the Stone Bridge into a shallow
ravine which ran up to a point on the
crest where Jackson had already form
ed his brigade along the edge of the
woods. We found the commanders
resolutely stemming the further flight
Of the routed forces, but vainly endea-
voring to restore order, and our own
efforts were as futile. Every segment
Of line we succeeded in forming was
again dissolved while another was be-
ing formed; more than 1000 men were
shouting each some suggestion to his
neighbor, their voices mingled with the
noise of the shells hurting thru the
trees overhead, and all word of COM
mand drowned In the confusion and
uproar. 1t was at this moment that
Gen Bee used the famous expression,
Look at Jackson's Brigade! 1t stands
there like a stone wall,'-a name that
past from the brigade to its immortal
commander. The disorder seemed ir-
retrievable, but happily the thot came
to me that if their colors were planted
out to the front the men might rally
on them, and / gave the order to carry
the standards forward some 40 yards,
which was promptly executed by the
regimental officers. thus drawing the
common eye of the troops. They now
received easily the orders to advance
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which they obeyed with a general
movement; and as Gen. Johnston and
myself rode forward shortly after with
the colors of the 4th Ala. by our side,
the line that had fought all morning,
and had fled, routed and disordered,
now avanced again into position as
steadily as veterans
Johnston Goes to the Rear.
At this time a most judicious move
was made by Johnston's leaving Beau
regard to manage the firing line while
he himself went back to the Portici
House, central position, to gather up
the widely separated troops and send
them forward TO Beauregard. This
was of the utmost Importance, as 1t re-
suited in brigade after brigade Of fresh
troops arriving on the field at the right
time TO hearten up the Confederates
and discourage the Union soldiers with
the idea that the whole Confederacy
was being thrown against them. AS
fast as they drove one portion of the
Confederate army from the field, they
were confronted by a brigade of fresh
troops behind which the fugitives rail-
lied in the woods. Most disastrously
for Mcdowell he had no assistance of
this kind, and tho he had an abund-
ance of troops in the rear, there was
no one back there with authority to
send them in. nor with Joe Johnston's
c 4 1.AN All a
make their help most effective. In
consequence of this Burnside's Brigade
remained out of the fight after the first
collision: Porter's did much the same
thing: Keyes's Brigade fired a few shots
and then subsidized into inaction for the