Posted on 07/22/2021 7:40:40 AM PDT by 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.
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Homer,
Come December 7th, 1941, are you going to do a “this day in history 80 years ago” for WWII?
Situation morning, July 21
Attacks on Henry House Hill, 1–3 p.m
Union retreat, after 4 p.m.
Wait! I thought “The Greatest Battle Ever Fought on this Continent” was the January 6 attack on the Capitol! That’s what the harpies on “The View” say...
Is this a battle in that war where the Democrats wanted to end slavery and make all men equal?
< /sarc>
On July 22, 1861 there was a minor engagement at Forsyth, Missouri, south of Springfield, near the Arkansas line, Union victory.
| Date | Engagement | Military Units | Losses | Victor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 12-14 | Fort Sumter, SC | Confederate artillery (Beauregard), Union garrison (Anderson) | None | CSA |
| April 15 | Evacuation of Fort Sumter, SC | Union garrison | Two Union soldiers killed, four wounded by accidental explosion | N.A. |
| April 19 | Baltimore Riots, MD | MA 6th, PA 26th vs secessionist crowd | 4 Union soldiers killed, 12 civilians killed, hundreds wounded | USA |
| May 10 | St. Louis Riots, MO | Union forces vs secessionist crowd | 4 Union soldiers killed, 3 prisoners, 28 civilians killed | USA |
| May 18-19 | Sewell's Point, VA | Union naval squadron vs Confederate shore artillery | 10 total | inconclusive |
| May 29- June 1 | Aquila Creek, VA | Union naval squadron vs Confederate shore artillery | 10 total | inconclusive |
| June 1 | Fairfax Court House, VA | detachments from CSA & USA armies | 8 on each side, 1 each killed | inconclusive |
| June 3 | Philippi, WVA | Union Dept of Ohio (McClellan) -3,000, CSA infantry (Porterfield) -800 | Union 4, CSA 26 (killed or wounded) | USA |
| June 10 | Big Bethel, VA | Union (Butler) -3,500, CSA (Magruder) -1,400 | Union 18-killed 53-wounded, CSA: 1-K 9-W | CSA |
| June 15 | Hooe's Ferry (near Mathias Point) VA | Union schooner Christina Keen; CSA Farmer's Fork Grays | none -- Christina Keen captured and burned | CSA |
| June 17 | Vienna, VA | Detachments from both Union & CSA armies | Union: 8 killed, 4 wounded; CSA: none reported | CSA |
| June 17 | Boonville, MO | Union Western Dept (Lyon) -1,700 vs. MO State Guard (Marmaduke) ~1,500 | Union: 5-killed, 7-wounded, MO Guard 5-k 17-w | USA |
| June 18 | Camp Cole, MO | Union Home Guards (~500) vs. Confederate State Guards (~350) | Union: 35 killed, 60 wounded 25 captured CSA: 7-K, 25-W | CSA |
| June 27 | Matthias' Point, VA | Union gunboats ~50 vs. Confed garrison ~500 | Union: 1-killed, 4-wounded; CSA none | CSA |
| July 2 | Hoke's Run, WVA | Union Army of the Shenandoah (2 brigades, Patterson) -8,000 vs. Confederate Army of the Shenandoah (1 brigade, Stonewall Jackson) - 4,000 | Union: 3-killed, 70-total; CSA 9-killed, 23-total | USA |
| July 5 | Carthage, MO | Union Department of the West (Sigel) -- 1,000 vs. Confederate Missouri State Guard (Jackson) -- 4,000 | Union: 44-total; CSA 200-total | CSA |
| July 5 | Neosho, MO | Union 3rd Missouri vs. Confederate cavalry | Union: 137-total; CSA zero total | CSA |
| July 8 | Laurel Hill, WVA | Union Dept of Ohio vs. Confederate Army of the Northwest | Union: 8-total; CSA unknown | USA |
| July 11 | Rich Mountain, WVA | Union Department of the Ohio (McClellan & Rosecrans) -7,000 vs. Confederate Army (Pegram & Garnett) -1,300 | Union: 46-total; CSA 300-total | USA |
| July 12 | Barboursville, WVA | Union 2nd Kentucky vs. Confederate rangers & locals | Union: 16-total; CSA 1-total | USA |
| July 13 | Corrick's Ford, WVA | Union Department of the Ohio (McClellan & Rosecrans) -20,000 vs. Confederate Army (Garnett) -4,500 | Union: 53-total; CSA 620-total CSA Gen. Garnett killed | USA |
| July 17 | Scary Creek, WVA | Union Department of the Ohio (Cox) -1,000 vs. Confederate Army of the Kanawha (Wise & George S. Patton) -800 | Union: 51-total; CSA 10-total including Patton wounded | CSA |
| July 18 | Blackburn's Ford, VA (pre-Manassas) | Union Department of NE Virginia (McDowell, Richardson) -3,000 vs. Confederate Army of VA (Beauregard, Longstreet) -5,100 | Union: 83-total; CSA 70-total | CSA |
| July 21 | Bull Run/Manassas, VA | Union Department of NE Virginia (McDowell, Patterson) -54,000 (18,000 engaged) vs. Confederate Army of VA (Beauregard, Longstreet) -34,000 (18,000 engaged) | Union: 2,708-total (481 killed); CSA 1,897-total (387 killed) | CSA |
| July 22 | Forsyth, MO | Union Department of the West vs. Confederate Missouri State Guard | Union: 3-total ;Confederates: 15-total | USA |
In all kindness to our poor editors, if the battle had ended at, say, noon or even 3:00 PM, they'd be more right than wrong.
There stands Jackson like a stone wall! Rally behind the Virginians!
You know everything posted is 150 years old, right?
Perhaps. But then, it is NY, so maybe that is the last word they got. Telegraphs, but maybe even then they didn’t get a full story in timely fashion. Or accurate, in the fog of war.
Aaww, too bad. So sad. Not!
Awww too bad the Confederacy ending up being defeated. So sad. Not!
Sadly they hadn't seen anything yet.
In 1961 my Dad took 13 year old me to the reenactment. It was quite a show even though it was hotter than blazes. Back then the battlefield was still a drive out in the country.
I saw a Google Earth representation yesterday that makes it look like an urban park.
Yes...and?
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