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indeed, would have been a triumph. In the army in ammunition, provisions and the opinion of many who witnessed the transportation, prevented any serious retreat, and the consequent confusion at thoughts of advancing against the capithe capital, it might have been success- tal." fully accomplished. That it was not done, or even attempted, argues even more than the elaborate recapitulation of their deeds of valor in the official report of their commander, the substantial prowess of their foe. So obvious, in fact, is the question, that General Beauregard has felt it incumbent on himself to anHe gives as a part of the reasons, proper to be communicated for the neglect, these statements: "An army which had fought like ours on that day against uncommon odds, under a July sun, most of the time without water and without food, except a hastily snatched meal at dawn, was not in condition for the toil of an eager, effective pursuit of an enemy immediately after the battle. On the following day an unusually heavy and unintermitting fall of rain intervened to obstruct our advance with reasonable prospect of fruitful results. Added to this, the want of a cavalry force of sufficient numbers, made an efficient pursuit a military impossibility."

General Johnston, who has also something to say on this matter, frankly admits that he considered an offensive movement against the capital after the battle utterly impracticable. "The apparent firmness," he says, "of the United States troops at Centreville, who had not been engaged, which checked our pursuit, the strong forces occupying the works near Georgetown, Arlington and Alexandria - the certainty, too, that General Patterson, if needed, would reach Washington with his army of 30,000 men sooner than we could, and the condition and inadequate means of

It remains to count the immediate loss of this hotly-contested day-the returns of killed and wounded-what Wellington, with more rough truth than elegance, is said to have called "the butcher's bill." It is thus reported by the respective commanders. General McDowell, from the returns of his officers, reports the Union loss at 19 officers and 462 non-commissioned officers and privates killed, and 64 officers and 947 non-commissioned officers and privates wounded. 1,216 were reported missing. General Beauregard tells us, without distinction of rank, that of the Confederate forces, the killed outright numbered 269, the wounded 1,483. He calculates the number of prisoners of the Union army taken, "including the wounded who did not die," as not less than 1,600. An abstract list found at Manassas after the evacuation gives 550 wounded and 871 not wounded, sent to Richmond and the various hospitals. General Johnston, in his report of the day, states the result somewhat differently, making the aggregate of the Confederate loss 378 killed, 1,489 wounded, and 30 missing. Of these he assigns to the army of the Potomac 108 killed, 510 wounded, and 12 missing; to the army of the Shenandoah 270 killed, 979 wounded, and 18 missing. He claims as the spoils of the day, 28 pieces of artillery, about 5,000 muskets, nearly 500,000 cartridges, a garrison flag, and 10 colors captured in the field or in the pursuit ; and besides these, 64 artillery horses with their harness, 26 wagons and much camp equipage, clothing, and other property left behind.

CHAPTER XXVII.

INCIDENTS OF THE ENGAGEMENT.

am now doing.

AN APPEAL TO GENERAL BEAUREGARD.

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I believe General B. will recollect me while a resident of New Orleans; but if President Davis, General Lee General Johnston General Wigfall, Colonel Miles, Keitt or Withers are present they will not hesitate to vouch for me. General Bonham, and in fact, nearly all your officers know me. In addition to the gratification of performing a sacred duty, I would be highly delighted to meet in your camp many of my most valued friends. It is proper for me to add that I have not been in any manner connected with the action of the Government here, and that I am a neutral." To this appeal the following reply was made by General Beauregard, through his aide-de-camp Manning :"The General declines giving an informal permit to any one residing beyond his advanced lines for any purpose which may be accomplished by those formal proceedings known to and practiced by civilized belligerent nations. By no act of his will he lower the dignity of the Confederate States as a nation, by permitting that to be done indirectly which the usages of civilized warfare accomplish directly. The arbitrary and unusual course adopted in such cases as you refer to by the United States Government will be the guide of the General's conduct in return. Any one, therefore, coming within his lines without the proper flag, will be sent under an escort to the Confederate Government for examination. The General deems proper for me to add, that humanity should teach an enemy to care for its wounded, and Christianity to bury its dead."

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rassments necessarily arising from the theory held by the Federal Government of its attitude, not of making foreign war, but of suppressing an internal rebellion. The Confederates, naturally eager to maintain their independent sovereignty in the eyes of the world, were jealous of the punctilio which, it was found afterwards could, to a certain extent, by subordinate officers and by special acts, be yielded to a state of actual warfare without compromising the principles of government at stake. In fact, a modification of the original course in the transmission of flags of truce, the exchange of prisoners and other matters, became a necessity of the war. Had Colonel Cameron been on the other side, and fallen to the care of the Unionists, his remains would, if we may judge from the tenderness which had then been already bestowed in the case of General Garnett, have been cared for and forwarded with every mark of respect without solicitation or needless anxiety to his family and friends.

A letter was also addressed to General Beauregard shortly after the battle by Mrs. Sarah Z. Evans, the sister of Colonel Cameron at Washington, asking information respecting her brother. "With a grieved and torn heart," she wrote, "I address you. If it is in your power, will you give a word of comfort to a distressed spirit? I allude to the death of the gallant Colonel Cameron, of the Federal army, on last Sunday, the 21st of July. We are all God's creatures, alike in his sight. It is a bereaved sister that petitions. Colonel Cameron received two The refusal of General Beauregard, on shots, immediately following each other, the ground of the Confederate States not that destroyed his life. The fate of his being recognized as an independent bel-body is the grief-to know what has beligerent nation, was one of the embar-come of it. Think of the distress of a

tleman of this State, Mr. Kinlaw Fauntleroy, a private in Colonel Stuart's cavalry brigade, has in his possession a mina farm-iature portrait of Colonel Cameron and wife, which he intends to return to their friends after the war; for at present

ble between the two contending parties." The remains of Colonel Cameron were thus left uncoffined in a dishonored grave till the enemy having finally departed from the field before the long deferred approach of the Union army, the burial place was detected through information given by a negro, and the relics, as they could be gathered, were separated from the promiscuous dead and carried by the family of the deceased to a reverent interment.

like nature in Southern families, and let us forgive as we hope to be forgiven. All that we have been able to learn is, that Colonel C. was carried to house near the scene of battle. He had letters in his pocket declaring his name and station. He was rather a large no intercourse of the kind is admissiman, with sandy hair, somewhat gray, dressed in gray clothes. Have mercy on the bowed spirit that laments for the beloved lost—that would be comforted to know he had received decent burial. Notwithstanding the war, we are all brothers. God prosper the righteous cause.' In pity, have inquiries made, for the love a sister bears a brother, and may God show you mercy in time of trouble." To this touching epistle, General Beauregard, on the 5th of August. wrote the following reply: "Madam,Your letter of the 26th ultimo has been received, making some inquiries relative to the body of your late brother, Colonel Cameron, United States Army, killed at Manassas on the 21st ultimo. In answer, I will state that, upon inquiry, I find he was interred with several other bodies in a grave about 200 yards from the house of a Mrs. Dogan, on the battlefield, who attended herself to this sad dutyforgetting in her goodness of heart that these very foes had brought destruction and destitution upon her home and fireside-and that they had crossed into her country for the purpose of subverting its institutions and the form of government it had chosen, as a free people, to establish for itself. Indeed, I fully agree with you. May all the distress of this unholy war be visited upon the heads of those who are responsible for it, and may the Almighty Ruler of the Universe, in His infinite goodness and wisdom, (continue to) prosper the righteous cause! A gen

The brigade of General Sherman, to which Colonel Cameron's regiment was attached, met with another loss in the capture of Colonel Michael Corcoran of the New York 69th, Irish regiment, who was destined to afford, in the varying fortunes of his imprisonment, a prominent illustration of the policy of the war. Long after others were released from confinement, he was held as a hostage, and his life was for a time threatened to save from execution the Southern privateers who were tried in Northern ports as pirates. The birth, soldierly qualities and estimable character of Colonel Corcoran excited much sympathy and anxiety for his fate from his fellow-citizens generally, and especially from his countrymen, the natives of Ireland, who were so largely represented in the war. He was the son of an officer in the British service, had received a limited education, been employed in the Irish Constabulary force, and in 1849, at the age of twentytwo, had emigrated to New York, where

appears to have brought to his military service, and which were proved in the efficiency of his command. He was the first of his regiment to fall, mortally wounded, in an assault on the enemy, immediately after crossing Bull Run to coöperate with Hunter's advanced column.

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he became proprietor of a hotel. Having a turn for military affairs, he entered the ranks of the 69th regiment, of the city militia, soon rose to the rank of Captain, and in 1858 was elected Colonel of the regiment. His refusal, in that capacity, to call out his men in honor of the visit to New York of the Prince of Wales in the fall of 1860, first brought The Rhode Island troops of General him conspicuously before the public. Burnside's brigade, which led the way at After his capture at Bull Run he was the crossing of the upper ford, suffered confined for a time with the other pris- greatly, particularly the 2d regiment, oners of war in the tobacco warehouse which was first in the action. Its loss in at Richmond, and then removed to a officers was especially severe. Colonel second prison at Castle Pinckney, in John Stanton Slocum, who fell at the very Charleston harbor. His fellow-prisoner outset of the engagement, was a soldier of at Richmond, the Hon. Mr. Ely, of whose mark who, had he lived, would doubtless journal we shall presently make men- have become prominent in the war. tion, thus describes his appearance and native of Richmond, Rhode Island, born bears witness to his equanimity :-"In in 1824, he had received an excellent personal appearance Colonel Corcoran is education, and had early shown an aptall and slender, and has a remarkably titude for military service and an allefair complexion; and though apparently giance to the cause of government, by of a delicate constitution, he is suscepti- ranking himself with the armed defendble of enduring great fatigue. In his ers of his State in the suppression of the deportment he is silent without being in- Dorr rebellion. When the war with different; reserved, but hospitable; earn- Mexico occurred, he exhibited great est, firm, laborious and always animated alacrity and zeal in the enlistment of a by a feeling of the loftiest integrity. company which he offered to the National When he was free and at the head of his Government. On the increase of the regiment, there were at least one thous-army, his services were accepted, and he and good substantial men who were ready to follow him into the very jaws of death; but his recent sufferings as a captive will endear his name to the true patriots throughout the whole land."

The 69th also lost its second officer, Lieutenant-Colonel James Haggerty, a native of Ireland, who emigrated to the United States in 1849. His calling was that of a builder, an occupation in which he is spoken of as "most successful, being a man of energy, determination and watchfulness," qualities which he

was appointed 1st Lieutenant in Colonel Ransom's Rhode Island regiment which joined the column of General Scott, and rendered distinguished service at Contreras and the storming of Chapultepec, where Ransom fell facing the fire of the enemy at the head of his men. For his services on that day Lieutenant Slocum was promoted to a Captaincy. After the war he was engaged more or less in military matters, in the command of a militia company, and in furthering the introduction of James's new projectile.