. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . Taliaferro and Ewell.—Editors. THE SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN. 469 out of Centreville and occupied that place with his advance beyond it towardGainesville. A very severe engagement occurred between Kings divisionand Jacksons forces near the village of Groveton on the Warrenton pike, whichwas terminated by the darkness, both parties maintaining their ground. \ Theconduct of this division in this severe engagement was admirable, and reflectsthe utmost credit both uponits commanders a
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . Taliaferro and Ewell.—Editors. THE SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN. 469 out of Centreville and occupied that place with his advance beyond it towardGainesville. A very severe engagement occurred between Kings divisionand Jacksons forces near the village of Groveton on the Warrenton pike, whichwas terminated by the darkness, both parties maintaining their ground. \ Theconduct of this division in this severe engagement was admirable, and reflectsthe utmost credit both uponits commanders and the menunder their command. Thatthis division was not reenforcedby Reynolds^ and SigelJ seemsunaccountable. The reason giv-en, though it is not satisfac-tory, was the fact that GeneralMcDowell had left the commandjust before it encountered theenemy, and had gone towardManassas Junction, where hesupposed me to be, in order to give me some information about the imme-diate country in which we were operating, and with which, of course, hewas much more familiar from former experience than I could be. $ I had. \ Kings division (which had not been at Gaines-ville on the night of the 27th, but near BuoklandMills, and was consequently near the Warrentonpike instead of at Manassas, when, by GeneralPopes 4:15 order, the army was directedupon Centreville instead of upon Manassas) en-countered Jacksons forces in position as stated inthe preceding note about 5 : 30 p. M. Gibbons bri-gade, with two regiments of Doubledays (the 56thPennsylvania and 76th New York), contendedagainst Taliaferros division and two brigades(Lawtons and Trimbles) of Ewells Jackson says : The batteries of Wooding, Poague, and Carpenterwere placed in position in front of Starkes brigade, andabove the village of Groveton, and, tiringover the beadsof our skirmishers, poured a heavy tire of sbot and shellupon the enemy. This was responded to by a very heavyflre from the enemy, forcing our batter
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