. Young folk's history of the war for the union . did not get across Sudley Forduntil ten oclock. The Confederates were found stronglyposted, but the Union troops were superior in number, andafter a stubborn fight forced them back little by little untilTyler was enabledto cross at StoneBridge. The Con-federate left wasthus turned—thatis,the Union troopshad got around itso as to attack itbehind. This wasa great advantage,for with good man-agement the Uniontroops could defeatthis end beforeBeauregard couldget up his othertroops, many ofwhom were oppos-ing the false attackseveral miles
. Young folk's history of the war for the union . did not get across Sudley Forduntil ten oclock. The Confederates were found stronglyposted, but the Union troops were superior in number, andafter a stubborn fight forced them back little by little untilTyler was enabledto cross at StoneBridge. The Con-federate left wasthus turned—thatis,the Union troopshad got around itso as to attack itbehind. This wasa great advantage,for with good man-agement the Uniontroops could defeatthis end beforeBeauregard couldget up his othertroops, many ofwhom were oppos-ing the false attackseveral miles Confede-rates, under Gen-erals Evans andBee, gave way andfell back slowly. Itwas afterward saidat Richmond thatthey were whippedat this time, but —that the men didnot know it. General Bee, however, felt that the day was he was retreating with his troops, he came upon GeneralJackson, who had brought several regiments to his , he cried, they arc beating us back! Then,sir, replied Jackson, well give them the bayonet. Bee. Site of the Battle op Bull Run. 96 BULL RUN. [1861, rushed back to his hard-pressed men, exclaiming, See, tliereare Jackson and his Virginians, standing like a stone wall; letus determine to die here and we will conquer. And from thattime Jackson was known to all as Stonewall Jackson. It will be remembered that in the last chapter we left Gen-eral Joseph E. Johnston with his army at Winchester in theShenandoah Valley, and that General Patterson had beenordered to press him so closely that he would not be able to re-inforce Beauregard. But Patterson, instead of following upJohnston, moved, July 17, to Charlestown. On the very nextday McDowell appeared before Bull Eun, and Beauregard im-mediately sent word to Johnston to come and help him. John-ston, thus left free by Patterson, joined Beauregard with partof his troops on Saturday, the 20th, the rest, under GeneralKirby Smith, being detained on the way by want of railroadcars to carry the
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