Chapter LVI: The Second Battle of Bull Run

Jackson resumes his position--Sigel's troops move forward slowly
and become engaged--Reynolds, on left, advances, but falls
back--Troops of right wing arrive, scattered to meet Sigel's
cries for reinforcements--General Stevens advances with
small force to Groveton--Unexpectedly fired on by enemy's
skirmishers--Benjamin maintains unequal artillery
combat--Sigel and Schenck withdraw troops from
key-point--Jackson forces back Milroy and Schurz--General
Porter's movement--Inactive all day--Pope hurls disconnected
brigades on Jackson's corps--Attacks by Grover, Reno, Kearny,
Stevens, all repulsed--King's division slaughtered--General
Stevens collects his scattered division--Union attacks
repulsed the first day--Lee master of the situation--August
30, second day--Pope sure the enemy had retreated--General
Stevens expresses contrary view--Captain John More finds
enemy in force--Pope's fatuous Order of pursuit--Porter
slowly forms column in centre--Pope's faulty dispositions--
Whole army bunched in centre--Wings stripped of troops--
Porter's attack--General Stevens joins in it--The repulse--
Lee's opportunity--Longstreet's onslaught--The battle on left
and centre--The right firmly held--General Stevens's
remark--Pope orders retreat--General Stevens withdraws
deliberately--Checks pursuit--Capture of Lieutenant
Heffron--Crosses Bull Run at Lock's Ford--Bivouac for
night--Battle lost by incompetent commander--Troops fought
bravely 446

CHAPTER LVII

THE BATTLE OF CHANTILLY

Retreat to Centreville--Rear-guard--Bivouac on Centreville
heights--Counting stacks--Two thousand and twelve muskets
left--Loss nearly one half--General Stevens's last
letter--Sudden orders--March to intercept Jackson--Battle of
Chantilly--General Stevens's charge--He falls, bearing the
colors--The enemy driven from his position--Sudden and
furious thunderstorm bursts over the field 477

CHAPTER LVIII

THE BATTLE OF CHANTILLY

Progress of the fight--General Kearny responds to General
Stevens's summons with Birney's brigade--His death--Three of
Reno's regiments engaged--Night ends the contest--Sixteen
Union regiments against forty-eight Confederate--Respective
losses and forces--General Stevens averted great disaster 487

CHAPTER LIX

FINAL SCENE

General Stevens's body borne from battle to Washington--President
considering placing him in command at time of his death--
Burial in Newport, R.I.--City erects monument--Inscription--
Poem--General Stevens's descendants 498