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Brigadier General Daniel Tyler, commanding a Union Division “I arrived in front of the bridge...about 6 a.m....After examining the position, and posting Sherman’s and Schenck’s brigades and the artillery, I fired the first gun at 6:30 a.m, as agreed upon, to show that we were in position. As my orders were to threaten the passage of the bridge, I caused Schenck’s brigade to be formed into line, its left resting in the direction of the bridge.... “ -- Tyler’s battle report, in War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, series I, volume 2, page 348
Captain George Finch of the 2nd Ohio Infantry, Schenck’s Brigade: “As we approached a little wayside log school-house, two Confederate videttes hustled out from behind and fired their carbines, the bullets knocking up dust around us, and then galloped down the pike toward the Stone Bridge in hot haste. Reaching the edge of the woods at the crest of the gentle incline leading to the bridge, we at once engaged the enemy’s skirmish line on the north bank of Bull Run, and pushed them across.” -- Finch’s memoirs, from “The boys of ‘61” in G.A.R. War Papers, as quoted in Voices of the Civil War: First Manassas, page 97
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