BY EDWARD HENRY CLEMENT CAMBRIDGE JOHN WILSON AND SON University Press 1909 From the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society for March, 1909....

A little paper written years ago by a lately deceased brother of mine [1] describing the rout of the battle of Bull Run as he saw it with the eyes of a boy and a boy's love of the marvellous seems to me to possess some value historically for the intimate, unconscious picturing, along with it, of the state of the public mind on the eve of the so-called "great uprising." It seems to illustrate well the truth that the great Civil War, as a war, was really a surprise,—to the people of the North at l