The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-10-15

How would you like to be farmer,
and as you were tilling your quiet fields
read on painted wooden signs about
the size Of guidcboards on country
road and attached here and there to
trees and other objects, such inscrip
tions as these?
Colonel Cameron was killed here,
July 21, 1861"
Lieutenant Ramsay, Of Ricketts, S
Battery was killed here, July q,
1861"
"Here Jackson was wounded and
got the title Of 'Stonewail. .
General Bee was killed here, July
81, 1861"
Colonel Barlow was killed here,
July 81, 1861"
Colonel Thomas, Of Joseph +.
Johnstone's staff, wa killed here,
July ol, 1861"
"Colon el Fisher, of the Sixth North
Carolina Regiment, was killed here,
July 21, 1861"
Lieutenant Mangum, of the Sixth
North Carolina Regiment, was killed
here, July 81, 1861"
Location Of the cavalry charge on
Fire Zouaves, July 2l, 1861.
"Wade Hampton was wounded here,
July 2l, 1861
And yet this must be the experience
Of the tenant Of the celebrated Henry
farm, few miles out Of town. These
signs, moreover, yield or at least cx-
plain, source Of his side income
which is unlike perhaps that of any
IT er farmer in the United States.
last year the visitors turned me in
$iS, Was the remark when question :
cd as to the number Of visitors who
walked over his fields aud read the
signboards on what would otherwise
be one of the quietest and most COM
monplace of Virginia farms. The
Government does not own the field Of
Bull Run, although repeated efforts
have been made to have it purchase
enough Of the property to throw open
to the public. without charge, the
ground made famous by the first bat
tie Of the Civil War.
There is, however, certain simpli-
city and appropriateness IN the pres
ent arrangement; just as the two vol
unteer armies of that great struggle
returned to the peaceful pursuits Of
civil life, 80 the lands on which they
fought have returned to the peaceful
pursuits Of the days of the long past.
The owners Of the Henry farm charge
50 cents to each visitor; and as already
indicated, the number is not large.
The man who rents the farm realizes
that this responsibility is the source
Of some trouble to him, and also Of
little income, and 30 the arrangement
is reciprocal. Were the Government
to buy these acres it would be n,ces-
sary to pay man something of sal
ary to care for them, and while there
would be more marking in the way of
expensive tablets and military monu-
ments than now, it is doubtful if these
would tell any moro effectively the
story of Bull Run than the simple
signboards which are here today.
There has always been something
rather weird and grewsome about the
field Of Bull Run. Although it was
not large battle, its scene ex-
hibits more Of the horrible phases Of
war than most Of the others, and as
one OF tho chief objects of all battle.
Sald memorials should be the disoour-
agement Of war perhaps this accom-
plishes that purpose more surely than
do the grander settings Of the more
finished fields, like Gettysburg and
Chickamauga. At Bull Run today,
the tenaut.guide leads his visitors to
o cedar tree that grew so much faster
r&han the others about there, in the
Common obs srvation of the boys of the
Henry family, that an investigation
was mads. revealing that it had grown
over the remains Of an unknown SOL
dier, which had not been carried away
to Arlington with the others.
In burrowing about that tree recent
]y the guide brought out jawboue,
which he exhibited; this vas evident
ly kept there 10 the loose earth for H.
illustrative purposes, and there are
many other such grewsome things. 1t
is not unusual today TO pick up bull
let from the ground, and the trees
about here ss cut up for fuel, reveal
many scar Of the great battle.
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