. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . with GeneralJohnston. Airi\ing from Eichmond late in the afternoon, Mr. Da^-is hadimmediately galloped to the field, accompanied by Colonel Jordan. Theyhad met between Manassas and the battle-field the usual number of strag-glers to the rear, whose appearance belied the determined aiTay then sweep-ing the enemy before it, but Mr. Davis hati the hapjiiness to arrive in timeto witness the last of the Fedeials disappearing l^eyond Bull Run. The nextmorning I received from his hand at
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . with GeneralJohnston. Airi\ing from Eichmond late in the afternoon, Mr. Da^-is hadimmediately galloped to the field, accompanied by Colonel Jordan. Theyhad met between Manassas and the battle-field the usual number of strag-glers to the rear, whose appearance belied the determined aiTay then sweep-ing the enemy before it, but Mr. Davis hati the hapjiiness to arrive in timeto witness the last of the Fedeials disappearing l^eyond Bull Run. The nextmorning I received from his hand at our breakfast-table my commission,dated July 21st, as General in the Army of the Confederate States, and afterhis return to Richmond the kind congratulations of the Secretary of Warand of General Lee, then acting as military adviser to the President. It was a point made at the time at the North that, just as the Confederatetroops were aliout to break and flee, the FedtTal troops anticipated them bydoing so, being struck into this precipitation by the arrival upon their flauk THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN. 217. THE MAIN BATTLE-GROUND.—NO. 2. View of the Robinson liouse. looking nortli from thespot on tlie Henry plateau where General Bee fell. At1 p. SI. this ground lay between the hostile lines, whiehwere (roughly epeaklngi paialkl with the sides of thepicture : Confederates on the right, Union forces on the left. The foreground was between the centers of thepositions. As these two views are taken from the same spot, thereader will best understand their relation by holdingthe pages at a right angle to each other. of the Shenandoah forces marching from raihoad trains halted en route withthat aim—errors that have been repeated by a number of ■^Titers, and byan ambitious but superficial French author. There were certain sentiments of a personal character clustering about thisfirst battle, and personal anxiety as to its issue, that gladly accepted thistheory. To this may be ad
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