The hours dragged on again, but in the night there was a tremendous shouting.

Johnston, with eight thousand men, had slipped away from Patterson in the mountains, and the infantry had come by train directly to the plateau of Manassas, where they were now leaving the cars and taking their place in the line of battle.

The artillery and cavalry were coming on behind over the dirt road.

The Southern generals were already showing the energy and decision for which they were so remarkable in the first years of the war.

Johnston was the senior, but since Beauregard had made the battlefield, he left him in command.
The Invincibles were moved off to the left along Bull Run, and were posted in front of a stone bridge, where other troops gathered, until twelve or thirteen thousand men were there.