JACKSON’S RAID AROUND POPE.

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encountered were those of King’s division, and consisted of the brigade ofGibbon and two regiments of Doubleday’s brigade. |

During our engagement at Groveton the white puffs in the air, seen awayoff to the Confederate right, and the sounds of sharp but distant explosionscoming to our ears, foretold the passage of Thoroughfare Gap; and the nextday, before noon, Longstreet’s advance, under Hood, mingled their hurrahswith those of our men. Jj The march and the manoeuvres of Jackson hadbeen a success; \ the army was reunited, and ready, under its great head,to strike with both of its strong arms the blows he should direct.

4 . In this battle the right of the Confederate linewas held by Taliaferro’s brigade of Virginia andAlabama troops, commanded by Colonel Alexan-der G. Taliaferro, 23d Virginia ; next on the leftwas Jackson’s old brigade, all Virginians (latelycommanded by General C. S. Winder, killed atSlaughter’s [Cedar] Mountain),— officially desig-nated as the ‘“ Stonewall,” in honor of the steadinessand gallantry which it displayed on the same field[the First Bull Run] twelve months before, andwhich gained for their commander his well-knownsobriquet,—now commanded by Colonel Baylor,5th Virginia. Next came the Louisiana brigade,lately commanded by Colonel Stafford, and now byGeneral William E. Starke, who took commandabout August 19th, and who was killed three weeksafterward at Antietam; then the Georgia brigade,commanded by General Alexander R. Lawton ; andupon the extreme left General I. R. Trimble’s bri-gade of Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina , andAlabama troops. The batteries engaged were thoseof Wooding, Poague, and Carpenter, much outnum-bered by the Federal guns, but, toward the closeof the contest, ably supplemented by two piecesbrought to their support by the “boy-major” Pel-ham, of Stuart’s Horse Artillery , already famous forhis skill andgallantry. Jackson ordered up twentyadditional guns, but before they could be broughtnight and fatigue had closed the contest.— W. B. T.

| Jackson’s force in this raid consisted of threedivisions, as follows: Ewell’s division, composedof the brigades of Lawton, Early, Hays (Fornocommanding), and Trimble, with the batteries ofBrown, Dement, Latimer, Balthis, and D’Aquin;Hill’s division, of the brigades of Branch, Gregg,Field, Pender, Archer, and Thomas, with the bat-teries of Braxton, Latham, Crenshaw, McIntosh,Davidson, and Pegram; and Jackson’s old divisionconsisted of the brigades of Starke, Taliaferro (Col.A. G. Taliaferro commanding), Winder (Col. Baylorcommanding), and Campbell (Major John Seddoncommanding), with the batteries of Brocken-borough, Poague, Wooding, Carpenter, Caskie, andRaine. After the 26th, Colonel Bradley T. John-son commanded Campbell’s brigade. GeneralStuart, with the brigades of Fitz Lee and Robert-son, cooperated with Jackson.—W. B. T.

\ The results of Jackson’s raid on Manassas Junc-tion were reported by General R. E. Lee to be —“eight pieces of artillery, with their horses andequipments, were taken. More than 300 prison-ers, 175 horses, besides those belonging to theartillery, 200 new tents, and immense quanti-ties of quartermaster’s and commissary stores fellinto our hands. . . . 50,000 pounds of bacon,I O00 barrels of corned beef, 2000 barrels of saltpork, and 2000 barrels of flour, besides otherprop-erty of groat value, were burned.”— Editors.

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RUINS OF THE HENRY HOUSE, BURNED DURING THE FIRST BATTUE OF BULL RUN.FROM A PHOTOGRAPH PROBABLY TAKEN IN MARCH, 1862.