The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-16

Killed and Colonel and Acting Briga-
dier-General Francis Barlow, OF
Georsia was mortally wounded and
Is since reported dead The battle
commenced at o'clock A. NJ. and
ciosed at p. NJ. with the enemy In
run retreat, pursued by MuIfford and
stnarts Cavalry. President Davis ar
rived on the field after the action he'd
| commenced"
A Brilliant Victory.
me paper OF Tuesday. July 2a. gives
more complete details of the night.
with an editorial. entitled Sundays
woFk-The Destruction of SCOTS Reg
ular ARM" President Davis sent
from inc field to the War Department
an official notice of victory. willing
reporters met the Central train that
night and interviewed incoming mas.
sengers. who placed the Confedara1e
ioss In Killed and wounded at 800
| 10 1000, and that OF the Federals at
from 1900 to 5000. Captain Shields
battery OF howitzers arrived at the
scene Of action at late hour and
behaved CALAMITY. Colonel Moore's
FIRST virginia Regiment suffered little
loss IN the enga cement. President
Davis returned to Richmond. and was
met oy an immense gathering
great crowd assembled in trent Of tho
| Spotswood Hotel and vociferouslv
.siied 10Y the appearance OF Mr. Davis.
VINO finally presented himself ara
'ndressed the multitude in eloquent
of Sunday"
The President gave mucn praise 10
General Beauregdrd. who hal planned
the battle. and General Johnston who
was the ranking officer on the field.
Inc President also told OF being
eheered b. the wounded and dying as
ne rode on the field late in the after
Dispatch Issues m Extra.
The Dispatch says that the ex,ite-
| nleat J? Richmond was immense and
mat to satisfy the demands OF tho
public m extra was Issued from tho
| ohice, and thus the exciting Intelli-
gence was spread all over the city"
Inc bound volume does not show the
! extra. and 1t is doubtful II any copy
rs in existence. but the daily fle ie
complete. Papers of succeeding DAYS
give incidents. details and varying
personal accounts of the fight, mailed
! in. or sent by special express. the tel
| egraph OF the day being used only for
the briefest bulletins. Associated
! fress accounts are sometimes printed
with the foot note by the editor Of
| the Dispatch that since they eminate
from Washington and pass the official
| censor, they are. "of course. untrue"
From the Washington dispatches. 1t
would seem that McDowells army
| marched from Washington, believing
II had an easy task-a mere picnic-
and the battle Itself was a startling
surprise. While the army had In IL
10000 regulars and commands which
later made seasoned veterans. winning
honors in many campaigns. there were
also those who had enlisted for n
, frolic, and the dispatches tell OF nine
ty-day men whose enlistment expired
on the morning of the battle, and who
marched to the rear to the sound of
the enemys guns
Death of Dee.
The battle was not an easy victory
for the South. The Federal forces
outnumbered them almost two to one.
and throughout the day threw them
selves with great bravery against the
Southern line, piercing IL about mid
day and nearly succeeding in rolling 1t
up. II was at this critical juncture
that the Stonewall Brigade and its
commander received the name which
will last while history stands. The
adjoining brigade. under command OF
! General Barnard B. Bee had borne
the brunt of long and gallant charge
of Federal troops With his command
cut to pieces at 2 o'clock in the after
noon-his brigade dwindled to a hand
] full, and with every field officer save
himself killed or disabled. Bee rode
to the commander of the adjoining
brigade. General Thomas j. Jackson,
late professor of tactics at the Vir-
ginia Military Institute, and exclaimed:
General. they are beating us back"
| "Sir. we will give them the bayonet.''
| responded Jackson, grimly, whereupon
Bee issued his famous order to his
scattered remnant:
Rally behind the VirEinians: there
is Jackson standing like a stone wall!
Rally behind the Virginians!"
AS the command was obeyed. General
Rec fell dead on the field from Fed
eral shell. He was thirty-hve years OF
age. a graduate of West Point, and
had been twice entioned for gallan.
and meritorious conduct in the United
States Army. once at Cerro Gordo In
April. 1S47. and in the storming of
Chepultepec in September of the same
year.
Jnckson's Charge.
jackson made good his promise At
what seemed the critical moment of
the day he gave the order to charge
with bayonets. The brigade of Gen.
eral Kirby Smith. which had been de-
layed In reaching the field by rail-
road wreck. came up in tho nick of time
and supported the movement. The
enemy retreated-the retreat became a
panic-the panic rout. and without
semblance of formation, and without
orders. officers and men dropped arms
and accoutrements and ran pell nell
for Washington.
The dispatches do not state. nor did
1t become known until later that at
the time Jackson was standing like a
stone wall" and when he led his COM
mand with fixed bayonets over field
strewed with wounded men and dying
4 horses, 1t was with a Jagged hole
through his bride hand. caused by
fragment of flying shell. Not until the
day was won and his tired troops re-
called from the pursuit did he unwind
) the bloody handkerchief and allow the
surgeons to dress his wound.
Scott Escapes.
The Dispatch says 1t was currently.
renorted that ERneral Winheld Scott