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The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], The great battle! (search)
inent Union men, and the only hands not stretched forth to aid them were those which in their on ward march had waved the "Stars and Stripes." The Washington correspondent of the same paper says: It is not credited by military authorities here that the Confederates either bayonetted the wounded or shelled the hospital, as is asserted by many of the Northern papers. On the contrary, it is asserted that the shells of the Federal were thickly poured into the hospital tent. A Brevet Captain of the 2d S. C. Regiment, while a prisoner in the hands of the. --Connecticut regiment, said he would like to have an opportunity to fight rather than be taken prisoner. He had hardly uttered the words when he was shot through the head by two of the Fire Zouaves, while hold by the Connecticut men. A cowardly Colonel. A Colonel of a Western regiment, it is currently reported, left his men on the field, jumped into a private carriage, drew his revolver upon the driver, and comm