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Private Clement D. Fishburne of the Rockbridge Artillery: “Our company left our position about the time our infantry dashed down the hill on that splendid charge....We then went into a field on a hill which overlooked, at nearly a mile’s distance, what was known as the Stone bridge, and here reported to General Johnston, who ordered us to a position from which we could guard one of the fords of Bull Run....Whilst we were here resting we saw the enemy at a distance, crowding toward the Stone bridge on their retreat toward Centreville, and soon heard the good news that they were defeated and in full retreat....” -- Fishburne’s article “Historical Sketch of the Rockbridge Artillery, C.S. Army,” Southern Historical Society Papers, volume 23, pages 115-116
Colonel E.B.C. Cash, commanding the 8th South Carolina Infantry: “ I continued in pursuit of the enemy....After crossing the stone bridge...I deployed as skirmishers to the front Captain Hoole’s company, who drove the enemy before them.” -- Cash’s battle report, Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, series I, volume 2, page 530
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