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First Manassas in July 1861 Casulties
The Battle of First Manassas:
July 21, 1861 On a warm July day in 1861, two armies of a divided nation clashed for the first time on the fields overlooking Bull Run. Their ranks were filled with enthusiastic young volunteers in colorful new uniforms, gathered together from every part of the country. Confident that their foes would run at the first shot, the raw recruits were thankful that they would not miss the only battle of what surely would be a short war. But any thought of colorful pageantry was suddenly lost in the smoke, din, dirt, and death of battle. Soldiers on both sides were stunned by the violence and destruction they encountered. At day's end nearly 900 young men lay lifeless on the fields of Matthews Hill, Henry Hill, and Chinn Ridge. Ten hours of heavy fighting swept away any notion the war's outcome would be decided quickly. First Manassas in July 21, 1861 Casulties: Union Army of Northeastern Virginia: Brigadier General Irvin McDowell First Division: Brigadier General Daniel Tyler First Brigade: Colonel Erasmus Keyes - 223 Second Brigade: Brigadier General Robert Schneck - 98 Third Brigade: Colonel William Sherman - 605 Fourth Brigade: Colonel Isreal Richardson - --- TOTAL - 929 Second Division: Colonel David Hunter First Brigade: Colonel Andrew Porter - 464 Second Brigade: Colonel Ambrose Burnside - 363 TOTAL - 829 Third Division: Colonel Samuel Heintzelman First Brigade: Colonel William Franklin - 359 Second Brigade: Colonel Orlando Willcox - 432 Third Brigade: Colonel Oliver Howard - 225 TOTAL - 1, 016 Fifth Division: Colonel Dixon Miles First Brigade: Colonel Louis Blenker - 118 Second Brigade: Colonel Thomas Davies - 3 TOTAL - 121 GRAND TOTAL - 2,896 Confederate Army of the Potomac: Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard First Brigade: Brigadier General M.L. Bonham - 76 Second Brigade: Brigadier General Richard S. Ewell - --- Third Brigade: Brigadier General D.R. Jones - 75 Fourth Brigade: Brigadier General James Longstreet - 14 Fifth Brigade: Colonel P.St.G. Cooke - 104 Sixth Brigade: Colonel Jubal A. Early - 79 Seventh Brigade: Brigadier General Nathan G. Evans - 146 Holmes' Brigade: Brigadier General T.H. Holmes - --- TOTAL - 638 Army of the Shenandoah: General Joseph E. Johnston First Brigade: Brigadier General Thomas J. Jackson - 561 Second Brigade: Colonel Francis S. Bartow - 353 Third Brigade: Brigadier General Barnard Bee - 405 Fourth Brigade: Brigadier General E.K. Smith - 27 TOTAL - 1,357 Unattached: Hamptom Legion: Colonel Wade Hampton - 121 GRAND TOTAL - 1,226 ----------------------------- If the Politicians of today were in office in 1861 after this major loss.The Union Army would have witdrawn because some in Congress would have declared the war not winable.Our troops deserve the best equipment,support, and Backing the USA can provide. with thanks to Johnny Horton for the following Lyrics:"Johnny Reb" You fought all the way, Johnny Reb, Johnny Reb You fought all the way, Johnny Red Saw you a-marchin' with Robert E. Lee You held your head a-high, tryin' to win the victory You fought for your folks but you didn't die in vain Even though you lost, they speak highly of your name 'Cause you fought all the way, Johnny Reb, Johnny Reb You fought all the way, Johnny Reb I heard your teeth chatter from the cold outside Saw the bullets open up the wounds in your side I saw the young boys as they begin to fall You had tears in your eyes, 'cause you couldn't help at all But you fought all the way, Johnny Reb, Johnny Reb You fought all the way, Johnny Reb I saw, General Lee, raise the sabre in his hand Heard the cannon's roar as you made your last stand You marched in the battle with the gray and the red When the cannon's smoke cleared, took days to count the dead 'Cause you fought all the way, Johnny Reb, Johnny Reb You fought all the way, Johnny Reb When, "Honest Abe", heard the news about your fall The folks thought he'd call a great victory ball But he asked the band to play the song, Dixie For you Johnny Reb and all that you believed 'Cause you fought all the way, Johnny Reb, Johnny Reb Yeah, you fought all the way, Johnny Reb You fought all the way, Johnny Reb, Johnny Reb You fought all the way, Johnny Reb FADES- You fought all the way, Johnny Reb, Johnny Reb Yeah, you fought all the way Johnny
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And in a similar fashion, here is.........
a quote from a war correspondent during the Civil War published in the Nyack Journal on April 1, 1865:
?On the ground upon which the Battle of Bull Run was fought, I saw pretty pure delicate flowers growing out of the empty ammunition boxes; and a wild rose thrusting up it?s graceful head through the top of a broken drum, which doubtless sounded its last charge in that battle; and a cunning scarlet Verbena peeping out of a fragment of a buried shell, in which strange pot it was planted? Wasn?t that peace growing out of war? Even so, shall the beautiful and graceful ever grow out of the horrid and terrible things that transpire in this changing but ever advancing world. Nature covers even the battlegrounds with verdure and bloom. Peace and plenty spring up in the track of the devouring campaign; and all things in nature and society shall work out the progress of mankind.? Makes you think, doesn't it? Bill
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Yep! sure does .....
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