two o'clock on Sunday
But there were several badly wounded in the hospital at Manassas , where fuller particulars were accessible . They were conducted very politely by a young lieutenant in a shabby gray uniform to an ambulance and driven four miles southward to Fairfax Station on the railway , when , after despairing hours of waiting , they were taken by train to Manassas . An orderly accompanied them , and as the train passed beyond Union Mills , where the Bull Run River runs along the railway a mile or more before crossing under it , the young soldier pointed out the distant plateau , near the famous stone bridge , and , when the train crossed the river , the high bluffs , a half-mile to the northward , where the action had begun at Blackburn 's Ford . He was very respectful and gentle in alluding to the battle , and said , ingenuously , pointing to the plateau jutting out from the Bull Run Mountains : `` At two o'clock on Sunday we would have cried quits to McDowell to hold his ground and let us alone . But just as we were on our heel to turn , Joe Johnston came piling in here , right where you see that gully yonder , with ten thousand fresh men , and in twenty minutes we were three to one , and then your folks had the worst of it . President Davis got off the train at the junction yonder , and as he rode across this field , where we are now , the woods yonder were full of our men , flying from the Henry House Hill , where Sherman had cut General Bee 's brigade to pieces and was routing Jackson -- ` Stonewall , ' we call him now , because General Bonham , when he brought up the reserves , shouted , ` See , there , where Jackson stands like a stone wall ! ' He 's a college professor and very pious ; he makes his men pray before fighting , and has ` meetings ' in the commissary tent twice a week . ''