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...Napoleonic penman was Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, the hero of Fort Sumter, whom President Jefferson Davis first entrusted with the defense of Richmond. "Old Bory" had a bloodhound's eye and a theatrical, martial look. Taking command at Manassas Junction, he showed a pardonable confidence in the fighting spirit of his troops, the first and fiercest volunteers. His notions of their tactical capacity-communicated in eloquent notes to Richmond-were purely visionary...
...When Beauregard posted his army along the creek called Bull Run on July 20, 1861, he had Napoleonic strokes in mind but not much sense of the terrain. General Joseph E. Johnston, his superior, just arrived from Richmond, had to assume Beauregard's knowledge of the country since he had none himself. Beauregard worked until 4:30 a.m. on an order for attack which Freeman calls "a gloomy instance of the manner in which . . . the ignorance of a commanding officer may be as gross as that of the men and infinitely more expensive in blood and misery...
...Beauregard's order did not reach some brigades, reached others only to paralyze them. Not waiting for the Napoleonic stroke, Federal troops crossed Bull Run by the easiest route-also the most lightly defended-and fell on Beauregard's left. The Confederates owed their victory not to Beauregard but to the common sense of some of his brigade commanders, who heard heavy firing and decided to take their men toward it. "What seemed in retrospect a marvel of distant control by Beauregard was, in reality, the work of Colonel [Philip St. George] Cocke"-one of the richest planters...
...rolling) is an occupational disease among generals, who often have a fatal weakness for consolidation after partial victory-e.g., Meade after Gettysburg, Lee after Manassas I and II." It so happens that Lee was not in command at the First Battle of Manassas. The Confederates were commanded by Beauregard, who was joined by Joseph E. Johnston and later in the afternoon by Kirby Smith. Stonewall Jackson, looking over the field after the battle, was reputed to have said: "Give me 10,000 fresh troops and I will be in Washington tonight." It is a safe bet that General...
...TIME was off base in putting Lee at Manassas I, apologizes to some 50 readers from both North and South who protested. Lee had chosen the place (Bull Run) and mapped the tactical approach to battle, including the junction of Beauregard and Johnston, but when it was fought he was chafing at a desk in Richmond, where he had been left by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson might have been the Wavell of Manassas I. He vainly tried to persuade Beauregard, Johnston and Davis, who were conducting a post-mortem on the battlefield, to push on after...