The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . ng it, but it was routedat Carnifex Ferry by General Rosecrans. The Battle of Bull Run. — When Beau-regard left West Virginia, he took aposition at Manassas Junction, a stationof the Southern Railroad near a smallcreek called Bull Run. It was an excel-lent position. At this point he waswithin easy reach of supplies; he could also make a rapid advanceupon Washington, thirty miles away. In the meanwhile there grew a popular clamor demanding thatan attack should be made on Richmond before the ConfederateCongress assembled there
The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . ng it, but it was routedat Carnifex Ferry by General Rosecrans. The Battle of Bull Run. — When Beau-regard left West Virginia, he took aposition at Manassas Junction, a stationof the Southern Railroad near a smallcreek called Bull Run. It was an excel-lent position. At this point he waswithin easy reach of supplies; he could also make a rapid advanceupon Washington, thirty miles away. In the meanwhile there grew a popular clamor demanding thatan attack should be made on Richmond before the ConfederateCongress assembled there. To this clamor General Scott unwiselyyielded, and General McDowell started southward from Washing-ton with thirty thousand troops. A few days later (July 21,1861) he encountered General Beauregard with some twenty-ninethousand Confederate troops, and the battle was on. At first theConfederate forces were driven back, and victory seemed to fallto the Federal troops. The Confederate lines were more thanonce broken and again reformed.^ At the critical moment, when. General McClellan. 1 The example of General Thomas J. Jackson caused General Bee, a Confed-erate officer, to exclaim to his command : at Jackson standing there likea stone wall! Thereafter Jackson was everywhere known as StonewallJackson. 310 THE MAKING OF TUE AMERICAN NATION the Confederate lines were wavering, General Johnston arrivedwith reenforcements from the Shenandoah Valley. The Federaltroops were checked and then driven back. Their retreat becamea panic, and they fled toward Washington in hopeless confusion.
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