Bull Run, Va

the scene of two important battles of the Civil War. The first great battle of the war took place July 21, 1861, between Mc- Dowell, commanding 29,000 Union soldiers, and Johnson and Beau regard, leading 28,000 Confederates. Six Confederate brigades lay posted along the stream, and upon these McDowell resolved to begin his attack. Tyler was sent acro the stone bridge to threaten the Confederate front. Hunter and He int zel man were dispatched to make a detour and attack the enemy’s flank and rear. But Johnston had also decided to hasten the attack in order to anticipate Patters on’s arrival with reinforcements for McDowell. However, the latter moved first, s0 Johnston acted on the defensive. Tyler and Hunter were slow in their movements; still by midday McDowell had turned the Confederate’s left and uncovered the stone bridge. The Union troops followed the defeated Confederates acro Young’s Branch, but were held in check on the plateau beyond by Jackson, who here acquired his sobriquet of ‘‘ Stonewall,” until Johnston and Beau regard had time to come up and rally the disordered ranks. At about three o'clock, when both armies were exhausted by fighting, the arrival of 2,300 fresh Confederate troops, under Kirby Smith, who had escaped Patters on, turned the tide. McDowell was driven from the plateau, which had been the object of contention for three hours. McDowell in vain tried to cover his retreat with 800 regulars. There was a panic which spread almost to Washington.—Bull Run the second, or the battle of Mana as, occurred August 29, 30, 1862. General Pope, commanding a Union army of 40,000 men, advanced to attack Jackson, who was awaiting reinforcements from Lee at Bristoe station. McDowell had been dispatched to intercept Lee’s conjunction with Jackson, but he was immediately recalled and ordered to join Pope at Mana as Junction. Jackson, finding the way open, immediately retired toward Mana as Junction and took a strange position near Gainsville behind an old railroad grading. Pope ordered Sigel to attack him at daylight August 29. All the morning a duel of batteries continued and Pope, arriving about noon from Centreville, found both armies badly cut up. Pope expected McDowell and Porter to join him. The former arrived with 27,000 men, but the latter never came, The battle continued until sunset, Jackson seeming several times on the point of retreating before such heavy odds. But Long street came up and the fighting ceased for the night. It began again the next day. The Confederates made a brilliant counter-charge and swept Pope from the field. 107