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red his duty. Lieut. Col. Speidel, a foreigner attached to a Connecticut Regiment, strove against the current for a league. I positively declare that with the two exceptions mentioned, all efforts made to check the panic before Contraville was reached were confined to civilians. I saw a man in citizen's dress, who had thrown off his coat, seine a musket and was trying to rally the soldiers who came by, at the point of the bayonet. In reply to a question for his name, he said it was Washburne, and I learned that he was the member by that name from Illinois. The Hon. Mr. Kellogg made a similar effort. Both these Congressmen bravely stood their ground till the lost moment, and were serviceable at Centreville in assisting the halt there ultimately made. And other civilians did what they could. But what a scene! and how terrific the on set of that tumultuous retreat! For three miles hosts of Federal troops — all detached from their regiments, all mingled in one disorderly