From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America
CHAPTER II.
FROM NEW MEXICO TO MANASSAS.
The War-Cloud--The Journey Northward--Appointed Brigadier-General--Report to General Beauregard--Assigned to Command at the Scene of the First Conflict--Personnel of the Confronting Forces--Description of the Field of Manassas, or Bull Run--Beauregard and McDowell of the same West Point Class--Battle of Blackburn's Ford--Early's Mistake--Under Fire of Friend and Foe 29