Mcdowell And Tyler in the Campaign of Bull Run 1861
Mcdowell And Tyler in the Campaign of Bull Run 1861
Fry, James B. (James Barnet), 1827-1894
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29 at once. " Ayres saw instantly that his com mand could not exist long in such musketry fire, and without waiting for orders he promptly limbered up; and Brackett, who had dismounted his men, remounted them and all went at full speed across the open bottom-land to the high ground in rear whence Ty]er had sent them. I am quite certain that no one present thought at the time that Beauregard could not concentrate 1, 500 men, that Tyler with his four brigades could whip him before sundown, or eve...n that all of McDowell s army, if concentrated for the effort, could go to Manassas junction by way of Mitchell s and Blackburn s Fords. Foreseeing the bad effect Tyler s repulse would have upon the troops, and wishing to avert the depression which he knew would fol low from Tyler s having been driven back, Mc Dowell, when he learned of the affair after it was all over, gave Tyler verbal orders to reoccupy the high ground where his command had been engaged. But Tyler, from misunderstanding the orders, or from lack of disposition to do any thing more there, did not carry out the verbal orders, and just after midnight (18th-19th) McDowell gave him written orders as follows (p.
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