. A brief history of the United States . Its walls are of granite, thirty-five feet high. Its garrison, at thistime, consisted of a small body of artillerists, under General Dimick. X At Hampton, which had been occapied by the Confederates, some negroes werecaptured who had been employed in building fortifications. Butler declared them contraband of war, and this gave rise to the popular term, Contrabands. § In this attack, Major Theodore Winthrop, who had achieved some literaryreputation, was killed ; as was, also, Lieutenant Greble, who gave great promise asan officer THE CIVIL WAR, 2
. A brief history of the United States . Its walls are of granite, thirty-five feet high. Its garrison, at thistime, consisted of a small body of artillerists, under General Dimick. X At Hampton, which had been occapied by the Confederates, some negroes werecaptured who had been employed in building fortifications. Butler declared them contraband of war, and this gave rise to the popular term, Contrabands. § In this attack, Major Theodore Winthrop, who had achieved some literaryreputation, was killed ; as was, also, Lieutenant Greble, who gave great promise asan officer THE CIVIL WAR, 219 Battle of Bull Run (July 21).—The Northern people,seeing so many regiments pushed forward to Washington,were impatient for an advance. The cry, On to Richmond Ibecame too strong to be resisted. General Irvin McDowell,in command of the Army of the Potomac, moved to attackthe main body of the Confederates, who were stronglyposted under Beauregard at Bull Run.* After a sharpconflict the Confederates were driven from the field. They. STONEWALL JACKSON AT BULL RUN. were ralHed, however, by General T. J. Jackson f and others,on a plateau in the rear. While the Federal troops werestruggling to drive them from this new position, at the crisisof the battle, seventeen hundred men, under Kirby Smith, * This is near Manassas Junction, about twenty-seven miles from Alexandria. t General Bee, as he rallied his men, shouted, Theres Jackson standing like astone wall. Prom that time, says Draper, the name he had received in a bap-tism of fire displaced that he had received in a baptism of water, and he was knownas Stonewall Jackson. 320 EPOCH V. L1861. rushing across the fields from Manassas Station,* struck theUnion flank and poured in a cross fire. The effect was irre-sistible. McDowells men fled. As the fugitives convergedtoward the bridge in the rear, a shell burst among the team-sters wagons, a caisson was overturned, and the passagechoked. The retreat now became a panic-stricken rou
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