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[BATTLE OF FIRST MANASSAS]

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[BATTLE OF FIRST MANASSAS]

<b>132. [BATTLE OF FIRST MANASSAS]</b>
<hr align=left size=5 width=33% color=#778899><h3 align=center>rebels change battle of bull run to ‘yankee run’</h3>Mary Duncan writes to her brother James describing the battle. ALS, 4pp, small 4to, Walnut Hill [VA], Aug 4, 1861. Bold and closely penned on blue paper. Excellent battle content. Concerned that the family hasn’t heard from him and not knowing whether he joined the army, Mary writes that she is in ill health and describes the recent battle. Somewhat ungrammatically, she pens in part, “...<i>our soil has bin invaded by the enemy in sevrel places I never thought that would be brought on Va soil...I expect you can try to imagine the distress of our once pieceful and happy cuntry...so many poor distressed Wives and children left here dependent on people to take care of them...our people say they will have liberty or death. So far the victory has bin ours...I think a few more big fights will satisfy them to go home and stay there since the last battle they went back to Washington...they said they was not men they was the devil over here after them. The last battle was fought near Manassa</i>[s] <i>Junction the place caled Bull Run 15 miles of Washington. The Yankees changed the name since the battle to Bull Creek and our people changed it to Yankee Run—I think a good name for them...The cars was to be there with four thousand men and Pres Davis to reenforce our side. They only had to go from Richmond one hundred and sixty miles but the Yankees had paid the captain eight hundred dollars not to get there so he broke the cars or upset them some way but our people got off and walked and Davis got a horse and they did not get there until 4 oclock in the evening and they did not come the way our people expected them so they were very much allarmed thinking it was the enemy coming but they recognized Davis. He took the field in person. Oh I am so glad we gained the victory. They shot off one our Generals Beauregard’s horse’s head, he leaped on another horse. General Johnson sustained the heaviest loss, he took the force he commanded the left wing of the fight. Davis took the senter. General Beauregard - right wing. Mat Lyle wrote he saw a man’s legs left on his horse, his body shot off the horse going in at a gallop...I herd they have hung the captain that stopped the cars...Doctor Watkins left next morning after he heard of the fight, he went to the battle field to attend to the wounded. He staid a week, he said he never wanted to go to another battlefield. The dead bodys was stacked ten miles in length. He said there was a leg, there an arm another place a head and hand. Our people got too hundred and fifty kegs of ground coffee and a great many barrels of hams. Everything was marked to Richmond. They had no thought but what they would reach the city very soon. Old Scott was there in his carriage. He found out they was about to get him so he left the carriage and took the woods. Our people got the carriage. I hered they kiled his horses from the carriage. We have too thousand prisoners in Richmond. I had much rather shoot them...but our people keep them to exchange for our prisoners. They take some of them is anxious to join the south. The North says they have lost twenty thousand men at Bull Run...Money very hard to get...I have done a good deal for poor soldiers in sewing for them. We all in this neighbourhood is going to send to Richmond to get some more work to do for them...I wish you had some of the good arms that we got from the Yankees after the battle</i>...” Much more. Minor fold separations; occasional ink erosion; o/w Fine. With typescript.

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