The New York herald., 1865-06-13
The Herald's Special Report of
the Proceedings.
The Rush from Washington to
the Battle Field.

Rev. Mr.. Pierpont's Dedicatory
Poem,
As., &C., 10.
~ N early hour on Sunday morning special train.
sazted from the Washington depot Of the Orange and
Alexandria Railroad Maryland avenue, convey
saax station the visitors TO the battle fields Of 1891
md 1852 Familiarity known the Bull battle fields
About two hundred ladies and gentlemen, including
Aumber Of distinguished military officers, passen-
gss The monuments erected by soldiers in memory
their fallen comrades to be dedicated with appro
ats services A the train Nended its way the
Long bridge to the Virginia Vide Of the Potomac
impossible TO avoid contrasting the present expedition
nth that which took the route bright Sunday
Aorning In July, 1861. Then, now, officers and
hvlians and scores Of women poured across the
long bridge en- roSse for Centreville; but with
vhat different emotions Then the wm had but
lust commenced. The great Army Of the Union,
under the new Major General Mcdowell, had
aarted out with all the pomp and panoply Of war to
march con to Richmond" The first great battle was
impending. The enemy had been found intrenched
lpon the plains Of Manassas, few miles beyond the
sW then almost unknown stream, Of Bull rum All the
Sisens Of Washington members Of Congress- judges Of
eeaEts heads Of departments and civil officers Of all
grades were going ~ II TO . grand holiday tournament,
70 witness the crushing ont Of the rebellion single
blow The grand army Of patriots who had hastily taken
up arms At the call Of the President TO defend the Union
and vindicate the government, were marching in
sive columns from the heights Of Centrevilie, sing
lrg ~ they went songs of defiance and Of vic
soU. Tho rest ID matter Of history Tho
svsns Of that day made Bull run q historic
nnme and occasoned this other pageant Of yesterday
Enday, July II, 1851, was the begnning Sunday June
AZ, 1896, II the end. How many Of the passengers
s who rode along in that other throng TO the
t1ttlsf They arc going now to commemorate tho spot
which - many brave hearts ceased TO beat while
~ fighting for the Union The train whrls along past
pAs camps of sheridan's boys, and the moats, and
siches and fortncatons longer needed for the
fence Of the national capital past the disgusting bone
bong establishments whose ntolerabe STENCIL waited
the city, poisons s atmosphere, stops at Alex
sadria where large addition is received TO the num-
b., of passengers In few minutes Fairfax station Is
ched Here found, drawn up in line, fifty ambu-
h and many more army wagons the latter being
81 ded with boughs instead Of In these the Wis.,
ors are comfortable seated and the movement towards
yr trfax Court House is begun under the direction
Captain Il. c. Lawrence Chief Of Staff TO General Gam
commanding the First separate brigade OF the Twen-
~ second army corps The road winds through coun-
rich with waving fields and dotted with COM
table and often elegant homcseads wild waste,
n here and there the ruins of what happy
mes In the place Of splendid residences by which they
graced, the hills about Fairfax Court House
pr, now covered with immense block houses, strongly
ckaded and filed with loop holes for musketry. Even
"a walls of the old Court House have bccn pierced with
Vulnerable loop holes and the windows heavily barri-
led. These are evidences Of the time when Washing
was menaced and the Union army required TO act on
l "a dofon ncvaa oatn net fhe bow wlinor pbel host
AT THE COURT HOUSE,
headquarters of General Gamble, the train s halted
the General and his staff. preceded by the band Of
Thirteenth New York cavalry and followed by large
umber Of ladies' and gentlemen horseback take the
ad OF the procession Soon the block house and fort
atlons on the heights Of Centrevle reached and
brief halt is called, while tho visitors examine the
magnificent panoroma stretching out to the dimy
outline Of the Blue Ridge
THE LINE OF THE CELEBRATED BULL RUN
pointed out and the route of the several divisions OF
nsDowels army, that Sunday four years ago, is
shown from the spot from which hundreds Of eager wit
watched the progress Of the first battle Of Bull
run or Centreville there Is little left About dozen
houses left standing but tall ehimncys surrounded
with ruins. show that IL was once quite an extensive
village.
Passing along the road by which the main division of
HcDowells army proceeded we cross Cub run and are
~
the heroes Of the FIRST battle Here still stands the city
Of log houses In which the army Of Beauregard passed
Ue winter Of 1851. Most Of them roocss now, but
walls are stout and well chnked and daubed, and
stest the energy and industry Of that army which was
long the mansay of the rebellion. Now flock OF
sheep, being driven quietly from Cupepper to Washing
q are peacefuly grazing among the huts where erst
wnie mighty armies rested and the clangor and shock
battle sounded while shot and shell ploughcd great
Nrrows In the soil
THE MONUMENT
IN OF the battle OF 1861 is erected upon
afternoon Of the day OF the battle after our troops had
compelled Bcauregard TO fall back two miles from where
light began. ~ is near the spot whore Mrs Henry,
nd within few rods OF the place where Rcketts and
s-ifln's batteries were captured by the enemy
The monument Ia an impromptu affair IT'S erection
crtglnated with the stat officers at General Candles
fsadquarters few weeks ago. II stands upon Gothic
round eight feet high, upon which Is base of solid
two feet high and twenty feet square, From this
ut each rises small tirret four feet square,
rlrmountcd by block of stone painted black, which
nsts a hundred FOUNDER Parrott she'll The, main
rhaf rests upon receding cornces ot two feet In
light each upon which rests the pyramid, four feet
uare at the base and fifteen feet high, surmounted,
the turrets, with hundred pounded Parrot she'll
Upon white shield inserted into the Northwestern
ce OF the pyramid engraved the words "1n memory
81 the patriots who fell at Bull run, July 81 1891" On
similar shield, upon tho opposite face, Is the inscription
Srected June TO- 1865. This simple and appropriate
nscrpton was suggested by Colonel j. H Taylor Chief
lis monument well M the Groveton field, az
second battle Of Bull Is called was designed and
nfectcd under tho supervision Of Leutenast McCalum
the Sixteenth Massachusetts, battery Of artillery,
sted by Captain Lawrence, Brigade Quarternaster II
p built by the soldiers OF CANDLES brigade. The
OILS used in its construction simple wood and
one hammers
Upon the arrival OF the visitors the Sixteenth Massa
usctts battery the Fifth Pennsylvania heavy artillery,
ting infantry and detachments OF the Thirteenth
York and Eighth Illinois cavalry drawn up Ia