Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-08

was down. The pike between Cub run and
Bull run was congested with men, car
rlases, wagons and all manner of teams.
There was 70 way to cross in good order
At this moment body Of confederate cav
airy opened fire from wooded hillside on
the south side of the pike. Then the con-
fusion became terror.
Historic Stone Bridge.
1t is only few hundred yards west of
CUB Run bridge that we come to a cross
roads at which he who knows the story of
the battle of Bull run must pause. There
was blacksmith shop here in 1861 1t is
here still. A store and the dwelling of the
storekeeper have been built since the war
That is the only change AT this point on
the pike road comes from the south
across level fields and passes on to the north
through an oak forest This road leads
from Balls ford to Sudley ford The place
is now called Bull Run post office AT this
historic crossroads is where Mcdowell with
MS turning column. comprising the divis-
ions of Hunter and Heintzelman, left the
Wafrenton pike to cross Bull run at Sud
ley north OF the confederate left 1t is
the point also where the retreating forces
of those divisions re-entered the pike and
resumed their way to Washington.
A mile beyond this place is the Stone
bridge. Over Bull run a middle pier and
| two arches have been rudely built of native
| red sandstone. The bed of the pike is laid
| over these arches and two stone walls are
| height of eighteen inches It was at This
bridge that the fighting Of July q began
The east bank Is considerable above the
west bank. On this elevation Tyler began
| his mock attack on Evans demi-higade
which occupied ridge half a mile west OF
| the bridge-the ridge on which the Van
Pelt house stood and still stands This
house pierced by the first shot fired py
the Union batteries. Between the bridge
and the position of Evans tn. pike runs
| through tow land wooded with white oak.
| AT the time of the battle this timber was
| cut down. forming abattis in the line of the
Union advance.
Bloody Buck Hill.
| few hundred yards further to the west
the turnpike makes two crossings of
| Young's branch, a tributary OF Bull run. 1t
winds peacefully through the middle
ground of the battlefield, and many heated
gun barrels were cooled in its quiet waters
| that Sunday, forty-one years ago. One Is
| treading bloody ground in this part of the
| road, for on the north hand rises Buck
| hill and on the south hand Henry hill
| Across the pike at this point the confeder-
| ate briSades Of Evans. Bee and Barlow
| were compelled to retreat in the forenoon
| of the Dist, when forced from Buck hill by
the brigades of Burnside, Porter. Franklin.
| Wilcox and the batteries of Griffin and
| Ricketts,. Up Henry hill the confederates
Tetreated. and there: under support Of
!
| the main battle was fought, and the field
| and fences, gullies and thickets are Just
! about as they were when the men in blue
| and those in gray charged each other. and
| charged and charged again.
| The stone house between the hills at the
| junction of the Warrenton pike with the
| Sudley and Manassas road. over which and
| about which the battle in its early stages
| ragged. Is there still. It Is without a tenant
| now, but until last spring it was occupied
! by a man named Pridmore. a farmer, who
| as a soldier In Stuart's cavalry fought over
| these fields which later he came to till