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THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN.
THE MAIN BATTLE-GROUND.—NO. I.
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View of tlie Henry house, looking west from the spot parallel with the rail fence (in the middle ground on thewhere General Bee fell. The Bull Run mountains and left). Just within the rail fence is where Griffin’s andThoroughfare Gap appear in the distance. The Sudley Ricketts’s batteries were planted. Near the houseroad, a few rods beyond the house, under the hill, runs stands the Union Monument, commemorating the battle.
was a false alarm caught from the return of General Jones’s forces to thisside of the Run, the similarity of the uniforms and the direction of theirmarch having convinced some nervous person that they were a force of theenemy. It was now almost dark, and too late to resume the broken pursuit;on my return I met the coming forces, and, as they were very tired, I orderedthem to halt and bivouac for the night where they were. After giving suchattention as I could to the troops, I started for Manassas , where I arrivedabout 10 o’clock, and found Mr. Davis at my headquarters with GeneralJohnston. Arriving from Richmond late in the afternoon, Mr. Davis 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 array then sweep-ing the enemy before it, hut Mr. Davis had the happiness to arrive in timeto witness the last of the Federals disappearing beyond 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 about to break and flee, the Federal troops anticipated them bydoing so, being struck into this precipitation by the arrival upon their flank