"Early on the morning of the 21st (Sunday), we heard the enemy's
guns open from the heights north of Bull Run, from which they
had opened on the 18th, and I soon received orders for the
movement of my brigade....
"Upon arriving there (McLean's Ford), I found General Jones had
returned to the intrenchments with his brigade, and I was
informed by him that General Beauregard had directed that I
should join him (General Beauregard) with my brigade.... He then
asked me if I had received an order from General Beauregard to
go to him, and, on my replying in the negative, he informed me
that he had such an order for me in a note to him. He sent to
one of his staff-officers for the note, and showed it to me. The
note was one directing him to fall back behind Bull Run, and was
in pencil. At the foot of it were these words: 'Send Early to
me.' This was all the order that I received to move to the left,
and it was shown to me a very little after twelve o'clock....
Chisholm, who carried the note to Jones, in which was contained
the order I received, passed me at McLean's Ford going on to
Jones about, or a little after, eleven o'clock. If I had not
received the order until 2 P. M., it would have been impossible
for me to get on the field at the time I reached it, about 3.30
P. M. Colonel Chisholm informed me that the order was for all
the troops to fall back across Bull Run.
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