the regiment. Gen. McDowell's disposition for ron of United States Cavalry, under Captain the march from Centreville on the morning of Colburn, 1st Cavalry, was subsequently ordered the 21st inst., placed Tidball's and Green's bat- as additional support. We were soon upon the teries (8 pieces) in reserve with the division of ground designated, and the two batteries at Col. Miles, to remain at Centreville; Hunt's once opened a very effective fire upon the eneand Edwards's (6 pieces) with the brigade of my's left. The new position had scarcely been Col. Richardson, at Blackburn's Ford; and occupied, when a troop of the enemy's cavalry, Carlisle's, Ayres's, and the 30-pounder (11 debouching from a piece of woods close upon pieces) with the division of Gen. Tyler, at the our right flank, charged down upon the New stone bridge; Rickett's, Griffin's, Arnold's, the York 11th. The Zouaves catching sight of the Rhode Island, and the 71st regiment batteries cavalry a few moments before they were upon (24 pieces) accompanied the main column, them, broke ranks to such a degree that the which crossed Bull Run at Sudley's Springs. As cavalry dashed through without doing them soon as the column came in presence of the much harm. The Zouaves gave them a scatterenemy after crossing Bull Run, I received from ing fire as they passed, which emptied five sadGen. McDowell, in person, directions to super- dles and killed three horses. A few minutes intend the posting of the batteries as they sever-afterward a regiment of the enemy's infantry, ally debouched from the road and arrived from covered by a high fence, presented itself in line the field. The Rhode Island battery came first on the left and front of the two batteries, at upon the ground, and took up at a gallop the not more than 60 or 70 yards' distance, and position assigned it. It was immediately ex- delivered a volley full upon the batteries and posed to a sharp fire from the enemy's skir- their supports. Lieut. Ramsay, 1st Artillery, was mishers and infantry, posted on the declivity killed, and Capt. Ricketts, 1st Artillery, was of the hill and in the valley in its immediate wounded, and a number of men and horses front, and to a well-sustained fire of shot and were killed or disabled by this close and wellshell from the enemy's batteries, posted behind directed volley. The 11th and 14th regiments he crest of the range of hills, about 1,000 yards instantly broke, and fled in confusion to the listant. This battery sustained, in a very gal- rear, and, in spite of the repeated and earnest lant manner, the whole force of this fire for efforts of Col. Heintzelman with the latter, and nearly half an hour, when the howitzers of the myself with the former, refused to rally and 71st New York Militia came up, and went into return to the support of the batteries. The battery on its left. A few minutes afterward, enemy, seeing the guns thus abandoned by their Griffin brought up his pieces at a gallop, and supports, rushed upon them, and driving off came into battery about 500 yards to the left the cannoneers, who with their officers stood of the Rhode Island and New York batteries. bravely at their posts until the last moment, Rickett's battery came up in less than half an captured them, ten in number. These were hour afterward, and was posted to the left of the only guns taken by the enemy on the field. and immediately adjoining Griffin's. The ene- Arnold's battery came upon the field after Ricmy's right, which had been wavering from the kett's, and was posted on our left centre, where moment Griffin opened fire upon it, now began it performed good service throughout the day, to give way throughout its whole extent, and and by its continual and well-directed fire asretire steadily, his batteries limbering up rapid- sisted materially in breaking and driving back ly, and at a gallop taking up successively two the enemy's right and centre. new positions further to his rear. The foot troops on our left, following up the enemy's retiring right, soon left our batteries so far in our rear that their fire was over the heads of our own men. I therefore directed the Rhode Island battery to advance about 500 yards in front of its first position, accompanied it myself, and saw it open fire with increased effect upon the enemy's still retiring right. Returning to the position occupied by Rickett's and Griffin's batteries, I received an order from Gen. McDowell to advance two batteries to an eminence, specially designated by him, about 800 yards in front of the line previously occupied by the enemy's batteries. I therefore ordered these two batteries to move forward at once, and, as soon as they were in motion, went for and secured as supports the 11th (Fire Zouaves) and the 14th (Brooklyn) New York regiments. I accompanied the former regiment to guide it to its proper position, and Col. Heintzelman, 17th United States Infantry, performed the same service for the 14th on the right of the 11th. A squad

The batteries of Hunt, Carlisle, Ayres, Tidball, Edwards, and Green (21 pieces) being detached from the main body, and not being under my immediate notice during the greater portion of the day, I respectfully refer you to the reports of their brigade and division commanders for the record of their services.

The army having retired upon Centreville, I was ordered by Gen. McDowell in person to post the artillery in position to cover the retreat. The batteries of Hunt, Ayres, Tidball, Edwards, Green, and the New York 8th regiment, (the latter served by volunteers from Wilcox's brigade,) 20 pieces in all, were at once placed in position; and thus remained until 12 o'clock P. M., when orders having been received to retire upon the Potomac, the batteries were put in march, and, covered by Richardson's brigade, retired in good order and without haste, and early next morning reoccupied their former camps on the Potomac.

In conclusion, it gives me great satisfaction to state that the conduct of the officers and eu

listed men of the several batteries was most | lances, they can then return to their proper exemplary. Exposed throughout the day to positions. a galling fire of artillery and small-arms, sev- As the general commanding visited almost eral times charged by cavalry, and more than every part of the ground during the conflict, once abandoned by their infantry supports, with a view to encourage or direct the moveboth officers and enlisted men manfully stood ments of the troops, my position as a member by their guns with a courage and devotion of his staff gave me every opportunity of seeworthy of the highest commendation. Where ing the results of the action. I therefore emall did so well, it would be invidious to make braced the opportunity thus offered to give didistinction, and I therefore simply give the rections when needed to the drivers of the amnames of all the officers engaged viz.: Major bulances where to find the dead and wounded; Hunt; Captains Carlisle, Ayres, Griffin, Tid- and also to those carrying off the wounded ball, and Arnold; Lieutenants Platt, Ransom, where they could find the needed conveyances. Thompson, Webb, Barriga, Green, Edwards, The stretchers were found very useful and comDresser, Wilson, Throckmorton, Cushing, Har-fortable to the wounded, and were in constant ris, Butler, Fuller, Lyford, Will, Benjamin, Bab-requisition, conveying them to the nearest ambitt, Haines, Ames, Hasbrouck, Kensel, Harri-bulances. son, Reed, Barlow, Noyes, Kirby, Elderkin, So far as I am informed, the medical staff Ramsay, and Craig. The two latter were killed. belonging to the different volunteer regiments I am, sir, very respectfully your obedient discharged their duties satisfactorily. I observant, served Acting Assistant-Surgeon Miles busily engaged in dressing wounded men under the shade of a tree, in a part of the field where the fire from the enemy was very hot. He addressed me a brief inquiry as I passed relative to the safety of his father, and then resumed his occupation.

WM. F. BARRY, Major 5th Artillery.

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL REPORT. ARLINGTON, Department N. E. Va., July 26, 1861.

Being chief of the Medical Staff with the Army in the Department of N. E. Virginia, I have the honor to make the following report of so much of the results of the action on the 21st at Bull Run, as came within my charge. As the officers of the Medical Staff were attached to the different regiments and on duty with them, I deemed it proper to remain with and accompany the general commanding and staff from the beginning to the termination of the battle, in order that I might be present if any were wounded; and, also, that I might be enabled to visit in this way every part of the field where the killed and wounded might be found.

After the action had fairly commenced, and the wounded and the dead were lying on the field in every direction, I despatched AssistantSurgeon D. L. Magruder to the rear, with directions to prepare a church (which I had observed as we passed before arriving at the scene of action) for the reception of the wounded, and also to send the ambulances forward as rapidly as possible to pick up the wounded and dead. In a very few minutes the ambulances made their appearance, and contrived throughout the day to visit every part of the ground which was accessible, so as to be within reach of those parts of the field where the fighting was going on, and wounded were to be found. It is due to the ambulance drivers to say that they performed their duties efficiently, and the result of their operations also shows how absolutely necessary these means of conveyance are to the comfort and relief of the wounded in giving them shelter and water when ready to perish with heat and thirst. By means of the ambulances, also, the men who go to the relief of their wounded comrades are separated but a short time from their companies, as, having deposited them in their ambu

Surgeon C. C. Keeney of Col. Hunter's division, and Assistant-Surgeon D. L. Magruder, attached to the commanding general's staff, did good service in the hospital church I have mentioned, and also in two houses near the church, where the wounded were placed after the church had been filled. These officers remained busily engaged in the discharge of their duties till the enemy's cavalry made their appearance, and but narrowly escaped capture, when they left. Drs. Swift and Winston, attached to the New York 8th regiment, remained with their sick sacrificing all selfish considerations for their own safety, in order that the wounded might not be neglected, and are now prisoners. I am informed that Assistant-Surgeons Grey and Steinburg of the Regular Army, and Drs. Honiston and Swan of the New York 14th, also preferred to remain rather than abandon their charge. The conduct of these officers is worthy of all commendation.

It would be premature in me, in the absence of sufficient data-the reports of the regimental surgeons not yet being received-to express a positive opinion as to the number killed and wounded in the action on the 21st. There were, no doubt, many concealed from observation under cover of the woods and bushes, but, judging from the number that I saw in various parts of the field, and allowing a wide margin for those unobserved, I should think that the killed and wounded on our side did not exceed from 800 to 1,000.

The impossibility of making a careful survey of the field after the battle had ceased, must be my apology for the briefness and want of detail in this report.

W. S. KING, Sur. and Med. Direc'r, U. S. A.
Capt. J. B. FRY, Asst. Adjt.-Gen., U. S. A.

During the morning, while the army was moving forward to Centreville, it was thought the other subsistence trains, in charge of First Lieutenants G. Bell, 1st Artillery, James Cur-ries, and of others in which provisions were tis, 15th Infantry, intended for Col. Heintzelman's and Gen. Tyler's divisions, respectively, would not reach the army in season, and I was directed to distribute the subsistence in the train present as equally as possible among the several divisions.

From personal observation on the march, on the morning of the 21st of July, I know that, generally, the haversacks of the men were filled-whether properly or not, I do not know. Fourteen wagons, containing about 17,000 Regimental officers should be held accountable rations, were sent in charge of Lieut. Hawkins for that. During the battle, and following it, I to the 5th division; the remaining wagons noticed many filled haversacks, canteens, blanwere directed to immediately proceed to Cen-kets, and other property, lying on the ground, treville, and I had made the best arrangements in my power to distribute the provisions they contained among the other three divisions.

of the services of my brigade during the day of the 21st of July, 1861:

The brigade left Piedmont* at daylight on the 21st inst., and after much delay and detention on the railroad, arrived at Manassas Junction about 12 M., when it received orders to detach a regiment to remain at the Junction to guard a weak point, and then to proceed to Lewis House, near the battle-field, and hold itself in waiting. Col. A. P. Hill's regiment, being the smallest-four companies not having come up from Piedmont was designated for the service. Brigadier-General Smith accompanied the brigade to the battle-field, and continued to exercise the command over it with which he had been empowered at Piedmont. The march to the field, part of the way, was performed in doublequick. The battle raged fiercely, and Gen. Smith ordered the brigade to pass Lewis House and proceed to the scene of action.

The Maryland regiment was under Lieut.-Col.
G. H. Steuart and Major Bradley T. Johnson;
the 3d Tennessee under Col. Vaughan, Lieut.-
Col. Reese, and Major Morgan, and the 10th
Virginia regiment under Col. Gibbons, Lieut.-
Col. Warren, and Major Walker.

I cannot speak too highly of the gallantry
and good service of my personal staff, Lieuten-
ants Chentney, McDonald, and Contee. They
were repeatedly exposed to the enemy's fire in
delivering orders, and rendered excellent service
in obtaining information of his whereabouts. I
have the honor to be, very respectfully, your
obedient servant,
ARNOLD ELZEY,

Brigadier-General Cominanding 4th Brigade. To Major THOMAS G. RHETT, Ass't Adj't-Gen. REPORT OF CAPT. JOHN D. IMBODEN, OF THE 66 STAUNTON ARTILLERY."

MANASSAS JUNCTION, VA., July 22, 181. Brigadier-General W. H. Whiting, Commanding the Third Brigade of the Army of the Shenandoah:

On entering the field to the left, Gen. Smith was shot from his horse, and the entire command reverted to myself. The brigade was formed in line of battle, with the 10th Virginia I submit the following summary report of regiment in reserve. About this time Captains the part taken in the engagement of yesterday, Hill and Cunningham, of Gen. Smith's staff, by the battery of the brigade-the Staunton reported to me. I detached Capt. Cunningham Artillery-under my command. The battery with four companies of the 10th Virginia regi- arrived at Camp Walker, below the Junction, ment to hold a captured battery, and directed at half-past eleven o'clock the night before the Capt. Hill to conduct Beckham's battery to a battle, with men and horses greatly fatigued, point on the left. The position was well se- by a forced march of thirty-two miles, comlected, and the battery under Lieut. Beckham menced at daybreak over an extremely rough was admirably served and made a decided im- and steep, hilly road. Having had but four pression on the enemy. Ilaving received intel- hours' sleep, and that on the ground, without ligence that our left was weakened, I deter- shelter, on a rainy night, since the preceding mined to make a movement in that direction, Wednesday night, at Winchester, and no food and accordingly to march by the left flank on Saturday, except breakfast which was kindly through a wood to the left and then to the furnished us by some ladies at Salem, in Faufront. The brigade in line-3d Tennessee reg-quier, my men were so tired on getting into iment on the right, 1st Maryland in the centre, 10th Virginia on the left-passed an open field and through a wood. On arriving at the edge of the woods, the enemy was discovered but a short distance in front, Stars and Stripes waving. I ordered the line to open fire. A brisk and terrific fire was kept up for a few seconds, and the enemy disappeared.

camp that they threw themselves upon the ground to snatch a few hours' rest.

A little after sunrise on Sunday morning, the lamentable Gen. Bee sent for me to his quarters, and informed me of the approach of the enemy, and that he was ordered to "the stone bridge" with his brigade and a battery not so much exhausted as mine, and asked me if we The command was ordered to advance, and would "stand that?" I replied, "Not if we on rising the crest of an open field, nothing can help it." He then ordered me to put the could be seen but the dead bodies of men and battery in motion immediately, and let my horses. The line continued to advance, and on wagons remain, and bring our rations and forcoming to a thicket in front, again encountered age after us to the field. In about twenty the enemy, and opened fire; the charge was minutes we were in motion, very much stimuordered, the thicket cleared, and the enemy lated by a cannonade which had then opened dispersed. I was ordered by Gen. Beauregard so near Camp Walker that one of the balls to retire with my command to the hill in came whizzing over us just as we started. After rear, from which I subsequently took up a posi-a rapid march of about five miles we met the tion across the stone bridge. It is with pride and pleasure that I refer to the coolness and gallantry of the whole command during the day. The fire upon the enemy was well-directed and destructive, and they sustained his fire with the indifference of veteran troops.

Piedmont is a station on the Manassas Gap Railroad below Front Royal. The delay alluded to is said to have been occasioned by a collision of some empty cars.

infantry of the brigade, who had gone by a nearer route. Gen. Bee, in person, then joined the battery, and rode with us about a mile and selected the ground we were to occupy, and remained till after the firing commenced on both sides. To his consummate judgment in choosing our ground, we are indebted for our almost miraculous escape from utter destruction. We were placed on the slope of a hill facing to

the surgeon. A few minutes afterwards another shell did its work by wounding 2d Lieut. A. W. Garber so severely in the wrist that I ordered him off the field for surgical aid. We now had ten guns at work upon us, with no artillery to aid us for more than an hour, except, I believe, three rounds fired by the gun with the Alabama regiment. It ceased its fire, I have heard, because the horses ran off with the limber and left the gun without ammunition. During this time the enemy's infantry was assembling behind, between and to the numbers, but beyond our reach, as we could only see their bayonets over the top of the hill. Two or three times they ventured in sight when the Alabamians turned them back on their left by a well-directed fire, and we gave them a few shot and shells on their right with the same result, as they invariably dropped back over the hill when we fired at them, as almost every shot made a gap in their ranks.

After we had been engaged for, I suppose, nearly two hours, a detachment of some other battery, (the New Orleans Washington Battalion, I believe,) of two guns, formed upon our right and commenced a well-directed fire, much to our aid and relief. My men by this time were so overcome with the intense heat and excessive labor, that half of them fell upon the ground completely exhausted. The guns were so hot that it was dangerous to load themone was temporarily spiked by the priming wire hanging in it, the vent having become foul. My teams were cut to pieces, five of the horses were killed out of one single piece, and other teams partially destroyed, so that, alone, we could not much longer have replied to the enemy's batteries as briskly as was necessary.

the west, with a sight depression or ravine, running almost parallel with the base of the hill. We came "into battery" and unlimbered in this depression, being thus sheltered by a swell in the ground to our front five or six feet high. Our position commanded a beautiful open farm which rose gently from the valley in front of us, back to the woods about 1,500 yards distant. In the edge of these woods a heavy column of the enemy was marching to the southward, while we were descending the hill to our position. At the moment we wheeled into line, I observed one of their bat-right (our left) of their batteries in immense teries of six guns do the same thing, and they unlimbered simultaneously with us. We immediately loaded with spherical-case shot, with the fuze cut for 1,500 yards. General Bee ordered me not to fire till they opened on me, as he had sent the Fourth Alabama regiment, Colonel Jones, across the valley to our right to occupy a piece of woods about 500 yards nearer the enemy, and he wished this regiment, together with one 6-pounder they had along with them, to get fairly in position before we fired. He had hardly uttered the order, however, when the enemy's battery-six long rifle 10-pounder Parrott guns, afterwards captured by our troops-within 150 yards of our first position, opened on us with elongated cylindrical shells. They passed a few feet over our heads, and very near the general and his staff in our rear, and exploded near the top of the hill. We instantly returned the compliment. Gen. Bee then directed me to hold my position till further orders, and observe the enemy's movements towards our left, and report to him any thing I might discover of importance. This was the last time my gallant, heroic general ever spoke to me. Seeing us fairly engaged, he rode off to take charge of his regiments. The firing of both batteries now became very rapid-they at first overshot us and burst their shells in our rear, but at every round improved their aim and shortened their fuze. In about fifteen minutes we received our first injury. A shell passed between two of our guns and exploded amongst the caissons, mangling the arm of private J. J. Points with a fragment in a most shocking manner. I ordered him to be carried off the field to the surgeon at once. He was scarcely gone when another shell exploded at the same place and killed a horse. About this time the enemy began to fire too low, striking the knoll in our front, from ten to twenty steps, from which the ricochet was sufficient to carry the projectiles over us; they discovered this, and again began to fire over us. After we had been engaged for perhaps a half hour, the enemy brought another battery of four guns into position about 400 yards south of the first, and a little nearer to us, and commenced a very brisk fire upon us. A shell from this last battery soon plunged into our midst, instantly killing a horse and nearly cutting off the leg of private W. A. Siders, just below the knee. He was immediately taken to

We were now serving the guns with diminished numbers-Lieuts. Harman and Imboden working at them as privates, to relieve the privates; the latter had the handspike in his hand directing his piece, when one of its rings was shot off the trail by a piece of a shell. After our friends on the right commenced firing, the enemy advanced a third battery of four pieces down the hill, directly in front of and about six hundred yards distant from us, upon which we opened fire immediately and crippled one of their guns by cutting off its trail, compelling them to dismount and send the piece away without its carriage. While this last battery was forming in our front, a vast column of thousands of infantry marched down in close order, about two hundred yards to its right. I did not then know where the several regiments of our brigade were posted. We heard firing upon our right and left, but too far off to protect us from a sudden charge, as we were in the middle of an open field, and not a single company of infantry visible to us on the right, left, or rear. At the moment the enemy's main column came down the hill, we observed the head of another column advancing down the valley from our left, and therefore concealed by