"Pictorial history of the Great Rebellion in one or two volumes (Живописная история великого восстания)" Compiled grom authentic sources W.O. Blake
Columbus, 1866
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Excerpt: ...out of the line of flight, but accomplished no more. Radford, with six companies--barely five hundred men--erossed the Run below the Stone Bridge, came upon the turnpike, and pressed upon the rear of the Federals. Schenek had just cleared away the abattis at the bridge, when he received intelligence of the rout, and that the army was retreating. He fell back toward Centreville, leaving the road open for the light battery of the Confederates to come on behind. ' By various routes the Federal troops had now crossed the Run and gained the turnpike, along which they pressed in one confused mass. Here and there a regiment presented something like a military form, but intermingled with these was a crowd of oflicers, soldiers, and civilians, on foot, mounted, and in carriages. W'hen the tidings of an impending battle reached Washington, all the idlers in the capital rushed forward to see the sight. Congressmen, newspaper correspondents, and 'loungers of every grade besieged the livery-stables. The man who had a horse or carriage for hire was lucky; he could let it at a war risk. All that long July day a constant stream poured out from Washington. Encouraged by the reports of the morning's success, many had ventured beyond Centreville; some had even crossed the Run. There was no one to hinder, and they went where they listed. This advancing current met the receding one. The opposing streams made a whirlpool, the vortex of which was where the road crossed the narrow bridge over Cub Run. Just below another human stream had poured in down the forest road up which Hunter and Heintzelman had marched in the morning. Behind were the Confederate cavalry, their hundreds multiplied in apprehension to thousands. An occasional sharp report, and a shot dr...
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"Pictorial history of the Great Rebellion in one or two volumes (Живописная история великого восстания)", Compiled grom authentic sources W.O. Blake, Columbus, 1866
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