http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/captain-alexander-wilkin-co-a-1st-mn-on-the-battle/ A Journal of the Digitization of a Civil War Battle Tue, 14 May 2013 19:21:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/captain-alexander-wilkin-co-a-1st-mn-on-the-battle/#comment-18696 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:54:00 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=8877#comment-18696 Thanks for sharing, Brian.

]]> http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/captain-alexander-wilkin-co-a-1st-mn-on-the-battle/#comment-18693 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:22:42 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=8877#comment-18693 Again…another wonderful up close and personal account which describes the battle in all of it’s horror and confusion as was your other post of the return of the body of Col Fisher of the 6th NC.
In the words of Clarence Edward McCartney (Highways & Byways of the Civil War – published-1926- Dorrance and Company Inc)
Bull Run is forever first. First in the emotions it stirred; first in the hopes and fears which it inspired; first in the pain and anguish which it brought to northern and southern homes; first in the splendor and romance of battle which it displayed to the combatants- for the simple reason it was the first time. There hovers ever a solemnity and hush about the last and the first things. Men would fall by the thousands, greater defeats could be inflicted and victories won; but never, never again, could the nation or it’s armies, pass through the experiences of that July Sabbath on the hills about Bull Run.

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