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
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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.
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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
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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
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