CRUSHING REBELLION: The Greatest Battle Ever Fought on this Continent; The Whole Rebel Army of Manassas Engaged; FEARFUL CARNAGE ON BOTH SIDES (7/22/1861)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 7/22/1861

[Homer_J_Simpson]

BULL's RUN BRIDES, Sunday, July 21 -- 2 P.M.

The great battle occurred to-day, and the result is not certain at the moment I write. Both sides have fought with terrible tenacity. The battle has been hot and steady for three hours, and the loss must be very heavy -- certainly not under one thousand on each side.

The Union Army advanced from Centreville in three columns at 3 o'clock this morning. Col. RICHARDSON commanded the column by the road to Bull's Run, where the action of Thursday took place, and Col. MILES lay on the road and at Centreville to support him.

Gen. TYLER commanded the centre division, which took the Warrenton Road -- Gens. SCHENCK and Col. SHERMAN being in advance. He had the three Connecticut Regiments, two from Michigan, two from Wisconsin, and the Sixty-ninth and Seventy-ninth, from New-York. Gen. MCDOWELL, with Col. HUNTER and a very powerful division, went out on this road, which leads directly forward to Manassas, crossing Bull's Run by a stone bridge, which had been mined.

The attack by these two points was intended mainly as a feint. The real attack was by HUNTER, who took a narrow road two miles out leading to the right, having HUNT's and the Rhode Island batteries, and leaving Col. KEYES on the centre at the crossing of the roads as a reserve. His orders were to proceed high up the stream, cut himself a path through the woods, cross over, and turn the position of the rebels on the north.

I went out with the centre column. At ten minutes before six we halted about a mile this side of the position of the rebels.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

“Sadly they hadn’t seen anything yet.”

Bttt.

5.56mm

[GreenLanternCorps]

He already did it from 2008-2015 for the 70th anniversary.

[GreenLanternCorps]

[Nailbiter]

flr

[Yo-Yo]

He already did it from 2008-2015 for the 70th anniversary.

[the OlLine Rebel]

He’s been doing 150 years exactly for several years at least since I signed on the ping. I don’t think it’s going to change for this Dec 7.

And I like seeing some really truly ancient stuff. Totally different from our lives. The ‘40s, not so different.

In fact, it’s led to some interesting discoveries, such as the first murder to involve some level of forensics. For me, culminating in a mountain hike to find memorial to an air-mail crash near my hubby’s hometown, even he didn’t know about. The domino effect of reading old stuff is cool. One thing from 1858 leads to something from 1931 and bang, fascinating.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

To be precise it is 160 years. Or, as I label it on my Twitter account, #160YearsAgo. And on Facebook’s American Civil War group, “News from 160 years ago.”

Whatever you want to call it, I’m glad it provides knowledge and entertainment to the peeps.

[the OlLine Rebel]

LOL! Ooops, I’m mathematically challenged.

Well, I should’ve known because a big deal was made 10 years ago (and 9, and 8, etc) about “150 years”.

I’m fascinated by the every-day articles and ads. Looked up “washing machine” from the era - indeed they still made those drums up to the early 1900s or so. But I had no idea of them until your papers.

[rxh4n1]

Or see SPIs Civil War Battles games, now sold by Decision Games. Or HPS Simulations PC games.

[colorado tanker]

I think you can go back far enough into Homer’s posting history and reenact the 70+ posts. I followed the posts at the time and they were fascinating.