Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 245, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 27, 1961 Page: 5 of 14
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THE STONE HOUSE—A landmark during the Battle
of Bull Run, or First Manassas, the Stone House still
stands near the center of the battlefield. It was used
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disaster-ridden night. President
Lincoln had stayed up to hear
the news of the battle as it was
brought to him, bit by bit. Now
he was making plans to strength-
en the war effort. It was abvious
that McDowell would have to go.
McClellan, because of his victories
in Western Virginia, seemed to
be the best choice.
There was fear in Washington
WARTIME RUINS—The Battle of Bull Run, first major encounter of the War Be-
tween the States, began at the Stone Bridge, the ruins of which are shown here in
a wartime photo.
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"I would cheerfully take the
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A thoughtful army encourages kind would please me- therefore
Confederate troops, as green as
the Union’s, were played out It
had been a dreadful day for ev-
eryone and the flush of victory
The nation had had its bap- stark, murderous, and terribie.
= ef bleed. There was no Aad there could be no turning
doubt now that this was war. I back
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clothing of all kinds, accoutre- what might come next
ments thrown off and left to be
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Up to this moment there had
been more Union troops present
than Confederate and the greater
number might very well have
LIKE A STONE WALL’
While Bee was trying to rally
his men he looked up at the slope
to the south and saw Thomas
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idly pressed the Federals back.
A shot from a Confederate can-
non destroyed the Cub Run
Jonathan Jackson’s Virginia bri-
gade fearlessly forming a line of
battle on Henry Hill. At that
moment he shouted one of the
immortal phrases of the war:
"Look. There is Jackson standing
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capturing key positions. Men
were wounded and killed as the
hot sun blazed down on the field
where the air was so still that
smoke hung motionless over the
guns, and flags clung listlessly
to their staffs, making their
a year the idea of being dictator left the
bridge across the Warernton
e Turnpike, blocking traffic. Union
Napoleon" and when photogra-
phers trained their crude cameras
on him, he took to posing with
one hand tucked inside his jacket
indicating the comparison wasn’t I
odious to him. I *
"I receive letter after letter.” I
he wrote to his faithful Nell,1 N
"calling on me to save the na- :
wniuten for na Servic•
Union cannon kept firing at the
, Confederates defending the Stone
I Bridge near the center at the
' wide area that forever afterwards
I was to be known as the scene at
the First Battle of Bull Run of
| First Manassas
The shooting had begun short-
ly after dawn on July 21, 1861,
and, as part of the Union battle
! plan, the main Federal column
was now marching north to swing
I around and come in behind the
1 Confederate lines.'
TROOPS COME LATE
But the untrained Union troops
were slow They stopped to drink
: and fill canteens when they
crossed the creek that was to give
the battle its name, and they
were late w ben they started south
from Sudley Church. A Confed-
erate signal station spotted the
and shamefacedly
enough, then thicker, in the
streets of Washington. They come
along in disorderly mobs: some
in squads. stragglers, companies
Occasionally a rare regiment in
perfect order with its officers
marching in silence. . . Sidewalks
of Pennsylvania Avenue. Four-
teenth Street, etc., jammed with
citizens as those swarms of dirt-
covered returned soldiers move
by; but nothing said, no com-
ments.
ABJECT PICTURE
During the forenoon Washing-
ton gets all over motley with
these defeated soldiers—queer-
looking objects — strange eyes
and faces. drenched the steady
rain drizzles all day) and fear-
x through the fields to get aws.
9 William H. Russell, the corre-
spondent sent by England’s i
K Times, described the rout
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Union troops were having the
“best of it. especialy when rein-
forcements under a professional
named William Tecumseh Sher-
man came up. They drove the
Confederates down into the val-
i .- . , ley where the turnpike runs and
was. not his forte) and Lincoin might very well have turned the
fired him again. tide ot battle in their favor if fate
Nevertheless, McClellan mus- had not intervened at this mo-
tered enough popularity to run ment The two top Confederate
ona .0. . n "u , • ,__2 — - —z---------- against Lincoln for the presiden- generals, Johnston and Beaure-
ond thoughts had it known about j for him for the first time in his cy in 1864 Lincoln trounced him gard arrived on that part of the
them at theutime.p.. ■ soundly, 212-21, in the electoral field’just as Confederate troops
UNION ARMY . : When he finally took the field college under the command of General
McClellan, called up to com-, he ran into a deft new Confeder- in fact, the defeat so rankled i Barnard E. Bee started to break
mand the Union Army after the ate commander, Robert E Lee. him that the man who toyed with and run.
Fighting went on for the rest
of the morning in the area north
of the Warrenton Turnpike
and draught horses, with the |
harness clinging to their heels, i
as much frightened as their rid-
ers: Negro servants on their mas-
ters’ chargers: ambulances crowd-
ed with unwounded soldiers:
wagons swarming with men who
threw out the contents in the
Bull Run disaster, openly ridi- and for the better part of
culed the President of the United
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A dashing cavalry charge cap- hotel recently advertised its free
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catalogue and your free park-
meet the oncoming Federal*.
I leaving a small guard at the
bridge. ...
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This to
the second of two articles on
f the First Battle of Bull Run.
or First Manassas. July 21,
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road to make room, grinding
through a shouting. screaming
mass of men on foot. who were
literally yelling with rage at ev-
ery halt”
Civilian carriages were upset
or pushed aside, and congress-
men who had driven out to see
--------- — McClellan’s letters hint that his
McClellan wrote to his adoring self-denial might have become
wife, Nell, back in 1861 might something less than admirable
have given a thoughtful army sec- had not things began to go wrong
1 troops panicked and dashed
fully worn. hungry, haggard,
blistered in the feet. Amid the
I won’t be dictator. Admirable
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States and toyed with the idea at
becoming a dictator.
“Our George," or "Little Mac"
as his soldiers called him, turned
out to be a failure on the battle-
field. and in a way, it was a
good thing. One big victory con-
ceivably might have turned the
trick for him
McClellan. born to wealth in I
Philadelphia, a top scholar at
West Point and a railroad presi-
dent at 32. was ■ summoned to I
command after a minor success1
against the Confederates in west-
ern Virginia
NEW POSITION
Arriving in Washington with the
Bull Run panic still hanging
heavy in the air. he wrote to his
wife: “I find myself in a new
and strange position here: Presi-(
dent, cabinet. Gen. Scott (the
general-in-chief) and all deferring
to me. I seem to have become
the power of the land. .
Adulation did nothing to dispel
his day dreams.
He had barely arrived on the
scene when Democratic politi-
clans began sounding him out as
presidential timber for 1864 to run
against Lincoln — the “Original I
Gorilla." he called him in letters
to his wife.
Admirers dubbed him "Little
dictatorship and agree to lay
down my life when the country |
is saved."
"I almost think,” he continued,
"that were I to win some small
success now I could become Die-!
I Dresses
| like a stone wall. Rally behind
the Virginians!"
His men did rally, they re-
formed their lines and went on
fighting Bee himself was mortal-
ly wounded soon afterward and
died the next day, but he had
given "Stonewall" Jackson the
name by which he was to be
known from that time on.
The Federals attempted to fol-
low up their morning success by
bringing up artillery which be-
gan to hammer away at the Con-
federates on Henry Hill. The bat-
tle now reached its climax as the
opposing lines swept back and
forth capturing, losing, and re-
the battle were given a hard
time. The disorganized mob
I swept on toward Washington,
but Washington was 20 miles.
away
! All night long the defeated
men kept going. It was dawn
when they began to pour across
Long Bridge. Walt Whitman de-
scribed their entry into the city:
"The men appear, at first
prevailed. But Confederate rein-
forcements still arriving from the
Shenandoah Valley and being
N. brought in from less active parts
T of the field now came to the sup-
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hoofs of men and bones.
“The runaways ran alongside !
the wagons, striving to force ,
themselves in among the oceu- '
pants. who desisted tooth and .
nail The driven spurred and '
whipped and urged the hones to
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Hg glint of sunlight on the polished
barrel of a grass fieldpiece and
9 Used flags to wigwag a warning
f to Confederate Captain Evans at
a the Stone Bridge This was the
। first use of signal flags in battle >
V. ’ Evans promptly moved north to
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Coppedge, Don L. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 245, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 27, 1961, newspaper, July 27, 1961; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1489120/m1/5/?q=%221961-07%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Brownwood Public Library.