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iiit of thedcrstundse flying ted men ir action wild re-ealed to the regie, it was r them-: posses-most of streams i officers through-precipi-eir men, pity, to mistake the inis-;alamity f the ro-ory. It ad borne ring the I against,n equal nto such vas, and ny more0 hardly commu-he Fed-1 passed s spread fast backFrom the Daily Freeman.The Vermont 2d at Bull Run.The Vermont Second were on the leftjust before going into the battle, and that was the last we had until some time after noon to-day. I have been trying to getand iFairF:up life enough with the boys to have them (thatwing, which brought us directly opposite wftsh ftn(j jmprove their looks a little,a portion of the enemy’s line stationed behind a fence ; but in about ten minutes wo had the pleasure of seeing their lines giveaway, and they fled to the woods. Hut at the same instant I discovered abut all except one or two are still sleeping in the dirt, so black you could not recognize them. We succeeded to-day in getting some bread and butter, which is all we have had to eat, but the men aremovement of a large body of their troops ;sotjrcj they all lie around me uncon-towards us, with the evident design °f scious of hunger.outflanking our right. We seemed to have the battle now immediately before us, and the necessity of a change of position of our Regiment was apparent to all. We had nearly ceased fire when I noticed Capt. Walbridge, who was on my right, and on the right of the Regiment, facing his men to deploy to the right. J inferred from this that the general orderpreslt;Thlt;The Camp of the Third Vermont.Mr. Walton writes to the Watchman from Washington, as follows :July 27,1861—1 P. M.I have just returned with Mr. Baxter from the camp of the 3d Vt. Regiment. It is at the chain bridge above George-bad been given to deploy, although I town, about six miles from the Capitol.heard no such order. Hut it was impossible to bear, and we had to go by signs, and guess our way through. I immediately gave orders to iny Company to face to the riglit, and we marched around so as to prevent their outflanking us. I discovered at this time that Capt. Walbridge and myself were alone in this maneuver, and I have since learned that no order was given to this effect; hut the movement saved a part of our artillery at least. All concerned had by this time discovered that, on account of superior numbers of the enemy’s reserve, we should not becomthe 1 com rMhas tof fi arme T1ly he all bi quenASoutlTlis titMail41'*'I250,(and open jo urn Conjj raatic cial i Theeh ukly II, 2dugh thisle. lieipany os rorn the uid who lid coin-Li 11 Run, Iry, and e glass.nth him,ttracted d in our [believe impton’s receivedThey have the post of honor, being the regiment most advanced in that direction.The post is now held by two regiments, with twelve pieces of artillery, to guard the bridge. Our scouts this morning were in sight of a camp of about 10,000 rebels ; and some of their cavalry came within a mile and a half of the bridge.The cannon are planted and charged to sweep the bridge and the opposite bank.While we were there a detachment of *rom Vt. axraen commenced cutting down the trees on the river bank, to clear the range: of the artillery ; and as we came past the 0able to hold the ground against them; bridge one hundred men were ordered to ^uul^ but the Fourth Maine, which was now ! cross into Virginia and cut down thegroves there, to prevent them from becoming hiding places for the enemy. This morning a Massachusetts captain and two slowly,while our wounded, baggage and men came into Camp Lyon (the name ol i r 1■ __ ^ I jLartillery mostly gained the line of retreat, 'the Vcrmoi t camp, and given in honor of It was now nearly night, and God save Gen. Lyon o! Missouri,) having escaped me from another such scene as followed, from the enemy. They forded the l*oto-The ground where we were, was so sit- mac about fourteen miles above the chain uated that we could only retreat along ' bridge ; of course the enemy can ford the one road, which passed through a dense : rjver also. On the whole, we thought wood, and that vast array of wounded and things were getting to be decidedly interwhole, baggage and artillery, all rushed jesting.The camps of the two Vermont regi-Thaver on our an(^ lke Vermont Regimentpart on the left and part on the right held the position a long lime, retiringGebeen to rai menfor this pass. Why we were not ali cutto pieces, I do not know. The Rebels I meots are perhaps the very best of all did not see our entire defeat, and did not the camps for beauty of location, purepursue as promptly as they might have air anj good water. The second is lo-done, and we gained a very fair start on Cated around the residence of Cotnmo-l nna in ' laem* But night was setting in, and we jdore Forrest, one of the mos* beautifula ont ill ileans—hawounaccoiferedGtMrs. on tin but oireleaSitbeendurinnumlnee ment.an(j could not get Com panics together, much j places in Virginia ; while the Third is I . less Regiments, and every one retreated upon a hill overlooking the Potomac, andhe nutn-v, Fair-giments,, as fol-on his own hook. Horses were unhitched sufficiently smooth to admit of easy move-from baggage trains, and turned back, J ments. The approach from the river icovered with riders, and the wagons left extremely abrupt, and will take a veryto block the already narrow pass. Horses largely superior force of infantry to getand wagons were often overturned, and left piled pell-mell in the gutters. At oneaccess to the camp. It is open, however, to artillery from the Virginia side. A,534 ,50 90 433 57103 00 o be an md well ch theyplace we had a bridge to cross and I few of the men are sick, owing to the fa-nevcr saw such confusion. There we tigues of the journey and change of cli-lost most of our baggage. I counted as mate, many as twenty dead horses, with wag-1 ons innumerable, piled in this ravine, ande housetroops actually crossed over this mass of horse flesh and wagons, boxes and barrels, cannon, c., rather than over the bridge. I had thus far kept the most of my Company together, and from the fact of our being last off the field, and iu the rear, 1 was every moment expecting an attack on our retreating columns. HutFrom the South20,000 Tennessee Troops sent into Missouri—Drafting Troops in Virginia —Reported Surrender of a Pennsylvania Regiment to the Rebels—Extensive Preparations of the Enemy.Louisvili.k, Aug. 3. A reliable gentleman who has just arrived here, saysapply thorit doubl preseand tlt;and vthe fitItsent lt;aides 11,00 call, the rtW.sentalWasliwithwhenrented,l0 * .i . t ii* i that seven boats left Memphis last night,the delay here was so great that I rallied . “ ’■ #inn,conveying troops to Isew Madrid. He I *on, was ,„ . my men, and we passed to the left intoit week Ithe woods to a point above the bridge f some few rods, where we crossed by wading the creek, which was about waistd down nearlyMr. and. deep. This carried us to about the mid-ear the IThe column, and we stopped a moment to witness the dreadful scene at the bridge. I saw an ambulance, in whichsays that not less than 20,000 Tennessee troops have been landed in Missouri.Isham G. Harris has probably been re-elected Governor of Tennessee.to theloyal i 1st to refGen. Flournay,of Arkansas, died here 'ltiriJ*'several ick the; slight Smith, ;s were le scene gus.tion oyesterday.Drafting for troops has already begun | ma^ ^ in Virginia. The Adjutant General or-gy and i of Mr.Sunday'(nation Mr. W.iV. Gil-im andike jailIned onwere several wounded troops, run off the i ..... . • . , ^ i nrim, . ..... . . * \ , ders the militia to repair to the Court earnebank, killing the horses, but leaving the tr • . . ... r^nn..... .. ... „ , ... House in their respective counties with- ^poimen still alive. All sorts of horrible , , , ., * AAA . «,rnvaout delay. About 20,000 men are wanted. ] r,rova, r tvr j i . Roger A. Pryor is in command of thebefore us. \\ e now proceeded to the top „. . . . . . T ,rf.K-Kiii uii.n ... 3d Virginia regiment.iD the Weof Wightsights, too shocking to contemplate, werereport-eakin2of the hill, where we sat down to empty the water from our boots and ring it out of our clothes. While thus engaged, the report of a cannon to the rear but too plainly told that we were pursued and overtaken. Our cavalry, however, it seems, were expecting this, and a gallant charge from them saved us from utter annihilation.We were now ten miles from the camp we had left in the morning, and thirty-five miles rrom Alexandria, the only point where we could count ourselvesCounty.The Richmond Examiner says that among the prisoners here is a free negro who catne as a chaplain to one of theConnecticut Regiments.The same paper authoritatively states that the number in a Federal regimentwhich surrendered the day after the battle at Hull Run was 820. The regiment is said to belong to Pennsylvania.Henry A. Wise, it was reported, was in need of reinforcements.It is understood that Gen. Beauregard has hung three traitors, one an engineersafe. If we had stopped the retreating. ! n column here, and formed in some order .i „ r* . d *i t .u -plonng . on the Manassas Gap Railroad, anotherwe might have made a successful stand, but ibis was impossible. If I had nowrecon-le right..... he liat m^' comPany together, I wouldne, and ed, but Liraable I weak-strikejeraenthave given all the money I ever saw in Vermont, or ever expect to. You may perhaps faintly appreciate my feelings inthinking that out of my whole company who were anxiously looking to me for advice and direction only about twentyere^ could be counted; and among the raiss-month in® WM niy own k°y* J halted aud weyet the a coun8el as to whether we wouldi large i greatrategica preacher, and the third a farmer.A dispatch to the Knoxville Register of the 31st ult., says that preparations of an extensive character are in progress, and that before a great while it may be confidently expected that there will be a large movement of our pickets beyoud Falls Church. The Confederate troops are divided into two corps ; the first, under Gen. Johnston, occupying the advanced post, and the second under Gen. Beauregard. There is no doubt that treachery was practiced on the Manassas Gup Railroad to prevent a junction between the forces of Gen. Johnston andto conTinernmeford tlcilitiestransnpublicraentsGei proval A tpro v id againg prison persot lion, v the on a si rui recove disloynThrimportproceed or wait and try to gather in the rest. We concluded that we could not aid them by remaining, and having with‘eroark us t*iat we knew wcre wounded, we ndvan- conc,uded t0 kceP a,ong and pick up Beauregard. The conductor of the train10gt j what we could. Our march was now di- has been shot, having acknowledged the! rect to Alexandria, thirty-five miles, andwe did not make any long halt till wedowns j reached here about ten o’clock this morn-n for a ing, a terribly tired and worn out set of Jnstable i fellows. We ate some luncheon fromCongrireceiving of a bribe to defeat the meeting of the two forces. The same treatment was meted out to a Georgian, who was caught piloting the enemy in a marsh.The Richmond Examiner of the 30thin.our haversacks about eleven yesterday, j says: Our army is under Gen. Johnston,teers a tered ii years c paid frthey rThevolunti expem twenty embod The ternooi army a the ne them w been nIi nihave o
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