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Notes to Crescent Blues/Schaeffer’s Battalion
This newspaper article (and this one, and this one, too) about a New Orleans company known as the Crescent Blues was a bit of an eye-opener for me. I didn’t have them listed on my Confederate Order of...
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Crescent Blues In the Battle
From the Seat of War in Virginia. The Crescent Blues, and the Eighth Louisiana Regiment. Leechman’s, near Manassas August 25th, 1861 (Extract.) Having concluded our interview with General Beauregard...
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Wheat’s Battalion at Stone Bridge
Wheat’s Battalion at Stone Bridge Although we have made great exertions to procure for the readers of the Bee a full report of the killed and wounded Louisianians in the great battle of Manassas...
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Tiger Rifles – Co. B, 1st Special Louisiana Battalion In the Battle
New From The Tiger Rifles The vivandier of the Tiger Rifles yesterday returned to this city from Manassas, and brought letters from two or three of the Tigers to their friends in this city. These...
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More From Fredericksburg
I’ve received another batch of newspaper clippings from John Hennessy. With this post I started on the last bunch he sent – that is, the bunch before this new bunch. So you’ll be seeing more stuff...
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Bull Run Illustrations
This link, sent in by reader Terrance Young, shows illustrations relating to First Bull Run which appeared in Harper’s Weekly and the New York Illustrated News. Cool stuff there – check it out. Thanks...
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Quiner Scrapbooks Online
Thanks to several friends who have informed me that the Wisconsin Historical Society has digitized the Quiner Scrapbooks. These scrapbooks include newspaper clippings for various Wisconsin units. Of...
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Northern Press Reaction to Beauregard’s Proclamation
Baltimore American, June 18, 1861 The most objectionable of all the pronunciamientos of the Secessionists that has come under our notice, since the beginning of the conflict, is the Proclamation of...
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“Wait For the Wagons”
FOBR (Friend of Bull Runnings) Richard Holloway, who provided us with the Jackson Barracks Collection, has passed along these lyrics. The rebels were riding pretty high in September ’61, in the wake of...
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More On Handcuffs
Chief Historian John Hennessy of Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park sent Bull Runnings a note and newspaper clipping image yesterday, shedding a little more light on the origins...
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Correspondent Peter Wellington Alexander On His Arrival at Manassas
Our Correspondent Arrives at Manassas Army of the Potomac, Manassas Junction, July 20, 1861 I arrived here late this afternoon, having left Richmond early this morning and been on the road nearly the...
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Correspondent Peter Wellington Alexander On the Battle
The Battle of Manassas Army of the Potomac, Manassas, July 22, 1861 Yesterday, the 21st day of July, 1861, a great battle was fought and a great victory won by the Confederate troops. Heaven smiled...
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Ezra Walrath Court of Inquiry
As concerns Col. Ezra Walrath, 12th New York Infantry, and the results of his efforts for a Court of Inquiry into his command of the regiment at Blackburn’s Ford to which he alluded in his...
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George Palmer Putnam, Publisher, On the Retreat, With Incidents of the Battle
The Affair of the Twenty-First. George P. Putnam, the publisher, was an eye witness of the retreat of Sunday and Monday, and says: The reports of a disorderly retreat of our main army are grossly...
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[Raleigh] North Carolina Standard, 7/27/1861: Death of Col. Fisher, 6th North...
Death of Col. Fisher. The rumor we gave in our last of the death of Col. Charles F. Fisher, in the battle of Manassas, is confirmed. He fell at the head of his regiment, gloriously fighting for his...
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Those Lying Liars and the Lies They Tell
I’ve written before of the mis-identification of Sherman’s Battery in accounts of the battle, be it of the Sherman to whom the moniker pertains, or to the location of said battery during the battle....
View ArticleUnknown, On Why Congressman Ely Went to the Battlefield
Before the Battle – Reasons why Mr. Ely went to the Battle Field. [Extract from a Private Letter.] Washington, July 21st, 1861. A member of the 13th came to the city yesterday and said that he had been...
View ArticleYet More Handcuffs
Here’s another example of reports of vast quantities of handcuffs taken by the Confederates from the debris of the Federal army after First Bull Run. Again, it’s second-hand, and perhaps an example of...
View ArticleMajor James Burdge Walton, Washington Artillery of New Orleans, At the Battle
The Washington Artillery ————— A letter from Richmond, Virginia, to a gentleman of this office, says: The Washington Artillery, under Major Walton, are highly spoken of by every person I have seen who...
View ArticleLaundress/Nurse Jane Hinsdale*, 2nd Michigan Infantry, On Her Captivity
Accounts from Manassas. Mrs. Hinsdale, whose husband is a member of the 2d Michigan Regiment, which is now on the Virginia side of the Potomac, has returned to Washington from Manassas Junction. Mrs....
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