Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-11-02


GENERAL p. G. T. BEAUREGARD, COM
MANDERS RESPECTIVELY OF UNION AND
CONFEDERATE ARMIES AT BULL. Run.
two per 1000. Every 1000 Federals
scored seventy hits. and the Confeder-
ates scored only forty-six per 1000.
There were $500 killed and wounded
on both sides.
If the casualties sustained in battle
may be taken as evidence OF good
lighting. there was desperate work at
Bull Run On the Federal side not less
than 1.5S4 men were killed and wound
: ID. The loss fell upon seven brigades,
Five of the seven, brigades lost ar
average of 2J6 men. which was the
average loss in Hancock's brig3dPs III
the celebrated fight i'll the wheat held
at Gettysburg.
The Confederate loss in killed and
wounded at Bull Run was about l,9OO
The brunt Of it fell upon three out OF
the ten brigadeS engaged. The three
brigades lost 1900 men, an average
Of about 435 to a brigade, They be-
lenged to General J. T.. Johnston'sI
army and were the lighters for their
side in the struggle on the Henry
house hill, the field where the I've Fed
eral brigades received their hardest
blows.
Some Heroes of the Day.
Napoleon said. Il date from Rivoli,
q battle by no means his first. Some
Of the great soldiers Of the war might
have dated from Bull Run had they
cared to. One who did was General J.
8. Ricketts,. Ricketts,, then captain.
won a brevet and generals star for
gallantry in command of battery.
His was one Of two batteries that
fought so gloriously for the Henry
house hill. But for an accident they
might have turned the tide there. All
was going well with them until the
regiment uniformed in gray approach
ed and was about to be deluged with
canister, when the chief OF artillery
declared that the strangers were
friends. Several Union regiments
wore cadet gray on that field. The
gunners held their fire, but the men in
gray did not. They peppered the
batteries at close range, cutting Down
every cannoneer and killing many OF
the horses. Ricketts, lieutenant was
killed and he himself terribly wound
ed. Lying where he fell, he was soon
cared tor by southernerS he had known
In the old service. His wife joined him
and with careful nursing saved his life.
Sherman tried to regain Henry
house hill. 1t was there he lost Colo
mel Cameron Of the Seventy-ninth
highlanders. This regiment dashed In
among Ricketts, idle guns and tried to
set them going again; but. finding the
enemies fire too severe, Cameron de
cided to charge. Come on. my brave |
highIanderS!!" he shouted. and started !.
for the timber where the COnfederates |.
lay in cover. He was shot dead. 1t Is !
asserted that Colonel Wade Hampton. /
the impetuous South CarOlinian, no. |!
Cameron 10 avange the dea'h OF a
NEPHEW at the hands Of the Sixty
ninth. also in ShermanS brigade. TAX
ing rifles from the hands Of his men-
me Legion -hdmpIOn dlWeu at OIL /
6cers only And he was crack shot !
On July 90. the day after Bull Run.
McDowell's army was in camp and
bivouac around Washington and Alex
andria. Congress promptly approved
of Lincoln's resultant call for troops, !
and the battle gave an impetus to re- !
cruitinC throughout all the warning !
states north aud south.