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JACKSON’S RAID AROUND POPE.

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federate line, formed parallelto the turnpike, moved rapidlyforward to the attack. Therewas no disposition on the partof the Federals to avoid the on-set, hut, on the contrary, theymet us half-way.

8UDLEY CHURCH, FROM THE SUDI.EV SPRINGS ROAD. A HOSPITALIN BOTH BULL RUN BATTLES. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKENSHORTLY BEFORE THE SECOND BATTLE.

It was a sanguinary field ;none was better contested dur-ing the war. The Federal artil-lery was admirably served, andat one time the annihilationof our batteries seemed in-evitable, so destructive wasthe fire; but the Confederate

guns, although forced to retire and seek new positions, responded witha determination and pluck unshaken by the fiery tempest they had en-countered.

A farm-house, an orchard, a few stacks of hay, and a rotten “ worm ” fencewere the only cover afforded to the opposing lines of infantry; it was astand-up combat, dogged and unflinching, in a field almost bare. There wereno wounds from spent balls; the confronting lines looked into each other’sfaces at deadly range, less than one hundred yards apart, and they stoodas immovable as the painted heroes in a battle-piece. There was coverof woods not very far in rear of the lines on both sides, and brave men—with that instinct of self-preservation which is exhibited in the veteransoldier, who seizes every advantage of ground or obstacle—might havebeen justified in slowly seeking this shelter from the iron hail that smotethem; but out in the sunlight, in the dying daylight, and under thestars, they stood, and although they could not advance, they would notretire. There was some discipline in this, but there was much more of truevalor.

In this fight there was no manoeuvring, and very little tactics—it was aquestion of endurance, and both endured.

The loss was unusually heavy on both sides. On ours, both division com-manders, Ewell and myself, were seriously wounded, and several field-officerswere killed or wounded. Federal reports state that “more than one-thirdof their commanders were left dead or wounded on the field,” while Confed-erate accounts claim that the enemy slowly fell back about 9 o’clock at night,but the other side assert that they did not retire until 1 o’clock. It was dark,and the Confederates did not advance, and it may be called a drawn battleas a tribute due by either side to the gallantry of the other.

Five of Jackson’s brigades took part in the conflict, Lawton ’s and Trimble’sof Ewell’s, and Starke’s, Taliaferro’s, and Baylor’s, of Jackson’s old divis-ion. Early’s, Forno’s, and Johnson’s brigades were not engaged, nor wereany of the brigades of General A. P. Hill ’s division. The Federal troops