... Just after my return from the
house where I saw Colonel Gardner, President Davis, in company
with several gentlemen, rode to where my command was, and
addressed a few stirring remarks to my regiments, in succession,
which received him with great enthusiasm.
"I briefly informed Mr. Davis of the orders I had received, and
the movements of my brigade, and asked him what I should do
under the circumstances. He told me that I had better get my men
into line, and wait for further orders. I then requested him to
inform Generals Johnston and Beauregard of my position, and my
desire to receive orders. I also informed him of the condition
in which I had found Colonel Gardner, and also of Colonel Jones
being in the neighborhood badly wounded, requesting him to have
a surgeon sent to their relief, as all of mine were in the rear
attending to the wounded of their regiments. While we were
talking, we saw a body of troops moving on the opposite side of
Bull Run, some distance below us.
"Mr. Davis then left me, going to the house where Colonel
Gardner was, and I moved my brigade some half a mile farther,
and formed it in line across the peninsula formed by a very
considerable bend in Bull Run above the stone bridge. I put out
a line of pickets in front, and my brigade bivouacked in this
position for the night.
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