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ME THE BATTLE' OF MANASSAS "".To the Editor of The Sunday I Believing that the readers of " T3iar Sunday News will feel an interan the events that led up to the of Manassas, I write this: ia. ZJuly, 1861, four regiments of :'3.?t??b Carolina troops were camped ~u? Fairfax?the 2nd, Col. J. B. Ker* the 3rd, Col Williams; riifr TTth, Col. T. G. Bacon; the 8th, '0&. Cash. These constituted Gen. Ah '-JL. Bonham's brigade, the first .brigade formed in Virginia. T&e spent most of our time drillrsxcp. We hardly had time to cook ~ Tn 'fVi/a mnminer QOimfi I -r. jtmr rauuiis. *-n i.uv ? ?, !.irrltr, company drill, skirmish drill, ihalrialion drill, regiment dirll, bri vjrai? drill. In the evening brigade 'i7?3v regiment drill, battalion drill, : skirmish drill, company drill. If . were any other kinds of drills 31 ^.ad 'em. *Qzi the morning of the 16th, the 'SZoxg roll beat; the enemy were ad "i^tMring, our pickets were being drivj=?x in. Part of my company were ; jacket, they came running in, out ?t>$ breath. They had been doing 44* double-quick for two miles. We back on Centerville, then to Bull Here we formed line of bat".nfcfr coi the south side of the Run, at wJBjt/UlVil d I'UlU, auvut wuiviv ??"vo I xaaSih of Manassas junction. At | oaras we began digging trenches j - aSfis^f: the bank of the creek. We waooiced day and night; the ground hard and tools were scarce. The unreiny hurried us up by throwing .<? -">h>T)r in our line for four days from rat 'aritcerrr they had up the road to-. nrssrids Centerville. Col. Bacon climbsl high tree and from it he could : mm- !die smoke of the cannon before cr.nuld hear the sound, then he -xpwsEifi call "Look out!" and into the everybody jumped. On the 18th, at Blackburn's Ford, job seoir right, ;Gen. Longstreet had cjaiit* a little fight with a force of federals about equal in number to ftis own brigade. The enemy seemsai Sfd be feeling their way across the Jftaix, yet they never tested Mitchell's Ttmn 4-U/v w/vm /] x %>ii-icii waa vn inc mam ivau fzam Centerville to Manassas, about fway between the two. On Saturday, the 20th, between ^srauflown and dark, Col. Bacon or lisied Capt. John S. Hard to take his cmtpany (F) to the north side of Bain, to do picket duty. Fording vr-sifc orreek we marched about half a TxidT in the direction of the enen:y sxafc .filed left into a field of clove-. .Heae- we halted, and half the com. .pOii{y was detailed for videt duty, " .faar men to a post. The other half \ imi .held in reserve, in the rear, un- t wier ithe hill. g Th* first group of four was taken c ~JLrtu? ithe left of the pomnanv Ibeag the smallest men, mere boys in I ilaitr, and posted nearest to the main c to Centerville. This group of a ~\oarr swr.e Benjamin Sharpton, Jas. V "Z'k&if. JSmithfield Radford, and c < JaUoway K. Henderson. Orders c tveae given us that two should stand a while two slept in the clover, v -ond a fine soft bed it was. o .Wj> had relieved each other a few o Mimes, -anti it was perhaps after mid- i Tjight, when an officer rode up from s the rear, who proved to be Capt t . '.Sianuel McGowan, a special aid on t Bonham's staff. I was awake 1 he came up and he asked if r --azyihjng was going on. s "Nothing," I replied, "except that enemy are moving up the creek v . to our left." c "How do you know that?" he ask- v a ""We iear the wheels of wagons artiilery rolling over the rocks ? in road. Wait a little and you r -will hear them." , 0 At this moment he dismounted, c r.-ri.d, leaving his horse with us, he r .forward a little way, and lis- F v. iittk'd. We could see him put his ^ I ' jsutwjf- to his ears. Presently he c iiDBt-'i-ack in a hurry. C * /Tiiis this been reported to Gen. 0 rifodiitiHm or Gen. Beauregard?" 1( ^N-iv-tir; we were forbidden to v ! :?ayf! raxr post, and no officer or ^ ? .^jifctr persen has visited us till now." P '*Have.i>ot your company officers A ..jjDTit the'rounds of the pickets?" s: ' '.T3)*>y. have not been here." Country hoys only five weeks from c lit* pio"w, v/e. were too new and too ti ; jrTe?n>t<i Know the importance of tl MAKE THE LIVA DON'T a hot < summ PERFECTIC stove keeps ; E cool and cle i away with all j coal-hod dru< coal range. The NEW PERI | like gas, regulat I cooks like gas. I fort with kerosem Something New. comes a fireless c pulling a damper, to show you the J TION No. 7, w ing oven; also the WATER HEAT] plenty of hot wat independent of tt range. Use Aladdin or Diamond to obtain the be \. Stoves, Heate PERg STANDARD O Washington, D. C. (New J< Norfolk, Va. (BALTIN Richmond, Va. vhat we did know. A little later in he war any one of us would have rone on a run with the news, orders >r no orders. "It is very important that Gen. "> 1 _1 1 J 1 1 seauregara snouia Know tms ai ?nce." Saying this, Capt. McGowtn hastily mounted and rode away. We continued to relieve each ither till day, and just at sunrise the ompany deployed as skirmishers ind moved forward through the yoods. Arriving at the north side if the woods we beheld the columns ?f the enemy in full view still march- i ng up the Run. A wonderful j ight to us green boys, fresh from j ne cotton nelds of Uarolina, were hese ranks of men in blue flowing ike a river, their thousands of bayolets flashing back the sunlight like ilvered mirrors. A company coming to relieve us, ve marched back and took our plaes in the trenches, and in a little vhile the battle of Manassas began, ind what followed the world knows. The enemy gave way near sunlown, and we pursued them into the light. Near Centerville we were ordered back to the trenches at-Mithell's Ford, where we got a full light's sleep. But our splendid oplortunity for taking Washington was ost forever. I had often wondered whether !en. Beauregard knew of this move f the enemy before Capt. McGowan earned of it from us boys, and after waiting 30 years I wrote to Gen. IcGowan and asked him. As a rely he published my letter in the Lbbeville Press and Banner, and aid: "The story is true in every partiular, except that it is not the whole i ruth. Capt. McGowan did report ; tie facts to Gen. Bonham, who then i- IV. : KITCHEN lBLE swelter over 3 :oal stove this er. The NEW )N Oil Cookyour kitchen an and does | the ash-pan, y igery of the I SECTION lights I es like gas, and H t's gas stove com- I e oil. > |j An oven that be- I ooker merely by n . Ask your dealer H NFEW PERFEC- II ith fireless cook- jj PERFECTION ER. It gives you | er, yet leaves you B ie hot, sooty coal S Security Oil White Oil rst results in oil rs and Lamps. IL COMPANY sr?ey) Charlotte, N. C. ?nnr\ n 1 & W V. ) V.U&I JCllUU, TW Y WU HI Charleston S. C. I ij sent Capt. McGowan to report to headquarters, at Manassas, three miles distant. Capt. McGowan aroused Gen. Beauregard about 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, (Juljr 21,) and gave him the news. Gen Beauregard then sent Capt. McGowan to Gen. Jackson, at McLean'3 Ford, and Gen. Jackson sent him on to arouse Col. Walker, of the New Orleans artillery. When Capt. McGowan, on his return, reached Mitchell's Ford, the sun was just rising and the first gun of the battle of Mortooccic' nrac ' ATXUilUOOCK1 ?? ttO lUCUi Gen. McGowan added that he had often reflected how much the work of these: faithful young videttpy. far in front of the battle line, contributed to our first great smccesa on rise plains of Manassas. It may be well to st-ito here that Capt. McGowan, afterwards colonel of the 14th S. C. volunteer?, came into command of his brigade at the death of Gen. Maxcy Gregg, who was killed in the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862. McGowan's. brigade was one of the finest brigades that South Carolina ever sent to battle. After the war n *r-/i * 1 *? v _ uen. xucuowan was nonor'iQ Dy nis State in many ways, he was many years a member of the State Supreme Court, and he was considered one of the best Judges that ever served the State. It may be of interest to know what became of my boy comrades, the videttes. James Cadle was killed at Gettysburg; Benjamin Sharpton was killed at Second Cold Harbor; Smithfield Radford died soon after the war of sickness contracted in the army; Calloway Kirksey Henderson lives to write this letter $ iidhhA T I CONFEDl ^ LOW ROUND TRIP I A with Through Coaches ^ the ConveMienees and ( Reunion f RICHIV ^ TTTTVT1 * d U1\J i Seabos J "The Pro J Official Roi i Monde ? 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