. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . Major Sykes, with six pieces ofartillery, quickly followed by the remainingregiments of Andrew Porters brigade of thesame division. The contest here lastedfully an hour; meanwhile Wheats battaHon,having lost its leader, had gradually lostits organization, and Evans, though still op-posing these heavy odds with undiminishedfirmness, sought reenforcement from thetroops in his rear. General Bee, of South Carolina, a man ofmarked character, whose command lay inreserve in rear of Cocke, near the StoneBridge, intelligently applying the general ord
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . Major Sykes, with six pieces ofartillery, quickly followed by the remainingregiments of Andrew Porters brigade of thesame division. The contest here lastedfully an hour; meanwhile Wheats battaHon,having lost its leader, had gradually lostits organization, and Evans, though still op-posing these heavy odds with undiminishedfirmness, sought reenforcement from thetroops in his rear. General Bee, of South Carolina, a man ofmarked character, whose command lay inreserve in rear of Cocke, near the StoneBridge, intelligently applying the general ordergiven to the reserves, had already movedtoward the neighboring point of conflict, andtaken a position with his own and Bartowsbrigades on the high plateau which stands inrear of Bull Run in the quarter of the StoneBridge, and overlooking the scene of engage-ment upon the stretch of high ground fromwhich it was separated by the valley of YoungsBranch. This plateau is inclosed on threei sides by two small water-courses, which emjityVol. XXIX.— GENERAL THOMAS J. { STONEWALL ) JACKSON.[from a photograph by tanner and van NESS.] into Bull Run within a few yards of eachother, a half mile to the south of the StoneBridge. Rising to an elevation of (|uite onehundred feet above the level of Bull Run atthe bridge, it falls off on three sides to thelevel of the inclosing streams in gentle slopes,but furrowed by ravines of irregular directionsand length, and studded with clumps andpatches of young pines and oaks. The gen-eral direction of the crest of the plateau isoblique to the course of Bull Run in thatquarter and to the Sudley and turnpike roads,which intersect each other at right the north-western brow, overlookingYoungs Branch, and near the Sudley road,as the latter climbs over the plateau, stoodthe house of the widow Henry, while to itsright and forward on a projecting spur stoodthe house and sheds of the free negro Robin-son, just behind the turnpike, densely embow
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