. Bull run to Bull run; or, Four years in the army of northern Virginia. Containing a detailed account of the career and adventures of the Baylor Light Horse, Company B., Twelfth Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., with leaves from my scrap-book. - on the morning of the gtli, Sheridans Cavalry, infull force, recrossed Toms Brook, attacked our cavalrydivision, then under command of General Rosser, and aftera spirited fight, routed Wickhams Brigade on the back road. B. B. Ranson, M. D. 252 Bull Run to Hull Run. and I-diiiax on tlie tnrni)ikc. (ln\in^- tlu-ni in confusion andcaplurinj;- onr artillery im
. Bull run to Bull run; or, Four years in the army of northern Virginia. Containing a detailed account of the career and adventures of the Baylor Light Horse, Company B., Twelfth Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., with leaves from my scrap-book. - on the morning of the gtli, Sheridans Cavalry, infull force, recrossed Toms Brook, attacked our cavalrydivision, then under command of General Rosser, and aftera spirited fight, routed Wickhams Brigade on the back road. B. B. Ranson, M. D. 252 Bull Run to Hull Run. and I-diiiax on tlie tnrni)ikc. (ln\in^- tlu-ni in confusion andcaplurinj;- onr artillery im these roads. That mofninn- ourl)ris4adc was occupying a position ahout inid\\a\- betweenthese two roads. Colonel I )nlan(.y, coinniaiKHni; llie brigade,ordered our regiment in line in front of a piece of woodland,in which we had encamped during the night. In a few^moments the enemy appeared in our front in considerableforce, and began a ra])i(l fire on our column. ColonelDuianey, as brave as Julius Caesar and as punctilious inobedience to orders as the boy that stood on the burningdeck, declined to attack, and we were left at the mercy of theenemys fire, with little al)ility to return it. Company Bpossessed no weapons but pistols and sabers, and clamoredto go forward, but the Colonel peremptorily declined. Find-ing that our lives would l)e sacrificed without injur} to theenemy, J disol)eyed orders and led a charge of CompanyB on the enemy in our fr
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