. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Copyright by fatrwt Iub. Co. BULL RUN BATTLEFIELD OF THE MORMXG, JULY 21. 1861 Along Bull Run Creek on the morning of July 21st Tylers division vigorously attacked from the east the Confederates under Longstreetand Beauregard on the western bank. By this attack McDowell hoped to succeed in falling unexpectedly on the rear of the Confederateleft with the force sent on a detour of some three miles to the north. A charge of fresh troops brought forward by Beauregard inpe
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Copyright by fatrwt Iub. Co. BULL RUN BATTLEFIELD OF THE MORMXG, JULY 21. 1861 Along Bull Run Creek on the morning of July 21st Tylers division vigorously attacked from the east the Confederates under Longstreetand Beauregard on the western bank. By this attack McDowell hoped to succeed in falling unexpectedly on the rear of the Confederateleft with the force sent on a detour of some three miles to the north. A charge of fresh troops brought forward by Beauregard inperson in the late afternoon started the panic of the raw Union volunteers. . Men who had fought courageously an hour before,had become as hares fleeing from pursuing hounds. The confusion was increased and multiplied by the presence among the fugitivesof a multitude of panic-stricken picnickers. Congressmen, civilians of every sort, and lavishly dressed women—who had gone out incarriages and carryalls to see the spectacle of a Federal army walking over the Confederates. The Confederates fed fat for days after-ward up
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