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Rh onel was struck in the head with a musket ; in front of the &quot;deep cut,&quot; Gen. Bradley Johnson saw men standing in line and fighting with stones, and at least one man was killed with these antiquated weapons. General Hood states that after the night battle on the 28th he found the Confederates and Federals so close and so intermingled &quot;that commanders of both armies gave orders for alignment, in some instances, to the troops of their opponents. In some cases, volleys were exchanged at such short range that &quot;brave men in blue and brave men in gray fell dead almost in one another’s arms.&quot; General Johnson reports that he noticed &quot;a Federal flag hold its position for half an hour within ten yards of a flag of one of the regiments (Confederate) in the cut, and go down six or eight times, and that after the fight 100 dead men were lying twenty yards from the cut and some of them within two feet of it.&quot; General Gregg’s reply, &quot;I am out of ammunition, but I think I can hold my place with my bayonets,&quot; breathes the spirit of Manassas. The result of the campaign was most gratifying to the Confederates. Pope, despite the fact that he unfortunately entered upon his new command with the declaration, I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies, had been forced back from Gordonsville to the Washington lines. His total battle casualties had been 16,843, and Lee had captured from him thirty pieces of artillery and upward of 20,000 small-arms, to say nothing of the stores at Manassas.

The North Carolina losses in the two days and one night at Manassas were as follows: killed, 70; wounded, 448. At Ox Hill, or Chantilly, they were: killed, 29; wounded, 139. —