1861 Blog - Steven B Madden (Arham)

As we were preparing to go to Manassas to stop the Union from cutting of the railroad line placed there, I was looking at a picture of my dear wife Annabelle. By the time we had to go I wrote a letter to inform her and my 7 children I was off to fight a battle. When the Confederate Army reached Manassas General Beaugard deployed us too form a line going horizontally across one side of  the Bull Run Creek. When we say the 37,000 Union soldiers we weren't really scared. Why whould we. They were enexperienced. We saw them flanking towards our left side. The battle went at a steady pace for quite a while until Genral Beaugard ordered us to counterattack. There were cavalries that came to our protection and more reinforcements. At that moment everyone in the Union side was completely done for, and everything on their side fell apart. Everyone started to flee at that point. We then realized we clearly won the battle. At the end of the battle there were 2,896 casualties on the Union side and 1,982 on the Confederate side. At the end of the battle I had injuries head to toe. After the battle we went on to celebrate our first big victory in the war.