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Battle of Blackburn's Ford

" Towards noon Tyler went out on a reconnaissance towards Blackburn’s Ford, taking with him Richardson’s Brigade, a squadron of cavalry, and Ayres’s battery, and holding Sherman’s brigade in reserve. He found the Confederates in heavy force. Beauregard, who had been informed of all of McDowell’s movements by spies and traitors, was there, and had ordered up from Manassas some North Carolina and Louisiana troops, who had just arrived there on their way to Winchester. The woods were so thick that his force was mostly concealed, as well as his batteries, excepting one on an open elevation. Hoping to draw their fire and discover their positions, Ayres’s battery was placed on a commanding eminence, and a 20-pound cannon, under Lieutenant Edwards, was fired at random. Only the battery in view responded, and grapeshot from it killed two cavalry horses and wounded two men. Richardson now sent forward the Second Michigan regiment as skirmishers. They were soon engaged in a severe contest in the woods, on the level near the Run. The Third Michigan, First Massachusetts, and Twelfth New York were pushed forward to support the advance, and these, too were soon fighting severely."

Battle of First Bull Run

" Leaving the sick, and wounded, and dying, who could not be removed, under proper caretakers in a stone church at Centerville (which was used a long time as a hospital), the army moved forward at a little past 10 o’clock, with Colonel Richardson’s Brigade as a rear guard. Most of them reached the camps near Washington, which they had left in high spirits on the 16th, before daylight. Richardson left Centerville at two o’clock in the morning; when all other troops and batteries had retired, and twelve hours afterwards he was with his brigade on Arlington Hights."

Battle of Williamsburg

" Hooker had repeatedly called upon Sumner for help, but he could get none, for that officer had ordered a large portion of the troops in hand to the right, under Hancock, to keep the Confederates in check in that directon, and to flank the works if possible. So he fought on, maintaining his ground until 4 or 5 o’clock, when the gallant and dashing Phillip Kearny came up with his division, with orders from Heintzelman (who with his staff had arrived early in the afternoon) to relieve Hooker’s worn and fearfully thinned regiments. Kearny pressed to the front and Hooker’s troops withdrew from the fight and rested as a reserve. Kearny deployed Berry’s Brigade to the left of the Williamsburg road, and Birney’s to the right, and at the same time two companies of Poe’s Second Michigan were pressed forward to cover the movement and drive back Confederates skirmishers, who were almost silencing the National batteries. The battle, which was lagging when Kearny arrived, was renewed with spirit and the Nationals began to slowly push back their foe. "

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