Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20
The Stone House.

for he covers all the ground, II you will
just give him chance. He will point you
stood with STANDARDS battery. when Gen.
Bee Is said to have called to his routed
men, Form! Form! See! There stands
jackson like a stone wall!'
To be sure Jackson's nephew has secuted
the story, and says it isn't true, but Prof
Henry believes in it firmly, and has the
spot so marked. He will show you where
Gen. Bee fell and was buried, and where
Barnard fell. Where Col. Campbell fell
when leading his canny Scots up the pla-
teau, and will point you off in the distance
where he was buried, close by the house
Of Mr.. Dogan, who lives right there yet.
He will show you the spot where Hamp-
ton got his wound, and Jackson and Beau
regard and Imboden and Col. Fisher And
where Col. Johnston of Hampton's Legion
was killed.
He will point out to you the Robinson"
house. and the Stone house, down in the
hollow by the Warrenton pike. and the
stone bridge and the site Of Sudley Church.
and the old ford. 1t is all historic, this
land. There Is the old Chinn house. too,
off among the trees; he will tell you that
loyal people live in 1t row. These houses
don't look much the worse for wear, either.
A little more moss has gathered on them.
Some patched-up places, where impairment
shells bit big holes in them, add to rather
than detract from the picturesqueness.
the gently rounded hills are covered with
timber OF good growth, and you scarcely
believe that at the meeting Of the armies.
th:rty-three and thirty-four years ago the
face of the country was swept almost clean
of trees. Tall and slim and stately stands
the naw forest, Its infancy nurtured by the
blood Of thousands of brave hearts, both
those who wore the blue and those who
wore the gray. Where some Of these trees
stand Prof. Henry has marked them as
monuments to the memory of Col John
S,ocum and Maj. Ballou and brave Col.
Haggerty Of the Irish regiment.
He will point the exact spots where Coils.
Hunter, He.ntzleman. Wilcox. Gilman,
Martin, Wood. Farnham, Corcoran and
Henry w. Slocum got their wounds. So
many brave men Of this battle have become
famous since! He will point you out the
Leachman house in the distance. Beaure-
CARDS headquarters for time, one of the
typical old southern homesteads where a
hospital was made for the sick and wound
ed. And he will say that solid shot still
shows up in one corner Of 1t. He will tell
YOU about how disease carried off several
Of the boys In blue and they were buried
down in the young orchard, and time
effaced every sign of graves.
And how, twenty-five years afterward,
some northern people, lady. for one, stop
ped at this hospitable home for some days.
and got to telling them of wayward' son
who ran away from home, and the last
They tell her of the unfortunate dead,
buried down in the orchard, and suggest
that in some such manner her son may
have died. And then they all talk. and
hungry heart, and hope grows into con-
viction. The old colored servitor who
buried the dead is sent for. and told to
find the obliterated graves, If possible He
digs. and digs. and digs, for weeks. till
almost the whole surface Of the orchard
now full of grown trees. is turned up with
his spade But one day he struck an OBJ
struction, and then another, and at last
from the bodies taken up one was iden-
titled, and the precious dust sent to rest in
the ancestral cemetery, among northern
pines. And that is but one Of the thous-
ands Of romances of the war
Fair and peaceful as the Happy Valley
might be looks this battlefield today, but
If that fair country had tongues for each
soul set free there in the two battles fought
within thirteen months of each other it
could a tale unfold that would rival that
of Ham1et'S ghost.
ION to Richmond was the popular war
cry of the north, and ION to Richmond"
Mcdowell undertook to Co. He got as far
as Manassas, twenty-seven miles south
west, and met with serious obstruction,
his forces, numbering about 1900, being
met up with by the opposing forces of
the confederates, under Beauregard, num-
bering nearly $4,000. In the conflict that
followed the federal loss was 16 officers
and 444 enlisted men killed; IS officers and
1,046 enlisted men wounded so officers and
l ,262 enlisted men missing; 25 pieces of
artillery and a large quantity of small
arms.
Confederate loss-Twenty officers and
362 enlisted men killed; So officers and 1,519
enlisted men wounded; 1 officer and II en-
listed men missing 1t was called a con-
federate victory. 1t certainly was fed
eraI rout. There are people living in Wash
ington today who rode out to the scene of
the battle, confidently expecting a Union
victory. Society women, arrayed as if for
a coaching party, went merrily off to see
their favorite blue-coated officers pluck
laureis as one gathers daisies from the
field. They remained long enough to see
them vainly try to rally their demoralized
forces, and then themselves formed a part
CT the panic-strcken mob which fled back
to Washington.