Identifier: historyoffirstb00baqu (find matches)
Title: History of the First Brigade, New Jersey Volunteers
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Baquet, Camille Society of Kearny's New Jersey Brigade
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories
Publisher: Trenton, N. J., MacCrellish & Quigley, state printers
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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- Brigade were orderedto the rear around a curve of the railroad where a cut aftordedsome protection. The Brigade re-formed behind this shelter andwere aerain in condition to meet the enemv. The Confederatestook shelter in the rifle pits and trenches on the heights on thewest side of Bull Run. They were a part of Jacksons corps, andconsisted of the brigades of Field, Pender, Archer and Thomas,and the batteries were commanded by Poague and Carpenter.Their fire did but little damage at this point, but kept the brigadesin position until it was seen that both infantryand cavalry werecrossing Bull Run by fords above the bridge. Colonel Scam-mon, who had assumed command of all the Union troops withhim, in the absence of General Taylor, ordered the brigades toretire towards Fairfax Station, the enemy following for about
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E. BURD GRUBB, Brevet Brigadier-General, U. S. V. Chairman Historical Committee. FIRST NEW JERSEY BRIGADE. 37 half a mile. The New Jersey Brigade, in company with Scam-mons command, retired, without further encounter with the•enemy, to Fairfax Station, and there took the road to CloudsMills via Annandale road, arriving at twelve oclock on the 28thof August. In this affair the Jersey Brigade showed the samesteadiness and courage that made them welcome to any othertroops they were temporarily in contact with. The training oftheir beloved Kearny was their mainstay. Jackson, in his re-port, shows his appreciation of the soldierly qualities of theJersey boys in this sentence: The advance was made with greatspirit and determination. If I had a division of such troops Icould take Washington. The following reports, taken from the Official Records ofthe Union and Confederate Armies, give a more exact descriptionof the afifair. Report oi Major William Henry, Jr., commanding the FirstNew Jerse

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