The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-04
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BATTLEFIELD !. /. |: i. ]
Village Around Which y l,' Mighty
Armies Ora Crap
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CENTER oFa l 3 ;. ULL ] q. RUN 4: FIGHT.
Many strategiiists Made Gentcr- enter,
vile Center Of N oyEel1,etl1t
Against the Enemy 5E#
CENTER OF. 8 5ULL RUN ! Y / FIGHT. !; G / I


&S IN ali that has een write about the
4, 1T limn manoeuvers of the army, 70 be
held on the battlcf. .elds 81 anassas 3 q
September. not hing has beef, written writer
about the villa geeof Centrev e ..SI he his
toric names Manassas. Groveton. G 6 aines-l M ;
vile. sudley Springs, rhoroug g h flare Gap
Henry Hill. yyarrenton = Ike md Stone. e.
Bird ge,4 have been frequently used. but
not Centreville: and set he troops. IN
moving over the old bat ttleground o Of July.
1861, and August 1856. will pass and ..repass5
one OF the most wa r-racked han1lets In
Virginia. Centreville, In the heroic age.
OF the republic. vas what It's ma me indi-
ca: ca tes. Thesc Civil War hreW, such a glare
upon the i hamlet that the eyes Of the
world we're drawn X to t.@3 g Greatt egions
ofRtheI Union and grea tsarTnles of the Com
sfederacy8 grap ppled around I he plac I
was a village over which one army and
then another rolled. 5sl lSs8
Four sigG boards posted at the cross
roads where the village stands tell the
way. One reads: .'.To \ Bull 4 Run. three
miles. '.sS .gS The legend 5on5 mother Is IT
sChantiIy. four miles h a THIRD Is 4 In
scribed: ITO Aldie. twelve mil iles:''5553.A II 8A
fourth points to Fairfax Courthouse seven:
miles away. These names rouse grand
and melancholy me emorles. They are an
index to tragic fiel ID s. sss
s When Mcdowell marched &wes i. from
the heights OF Arlington IN July. 1861,
he went to- Centreyille.. When Tyler's;
division went to Black burn s Ford. July
Sls. 1861, It went from centreville. When.
mcdowell moved to the attack OF Beaure-s
gard, Sunday morning, July fS2l. 4 1851 lie
set out from centreyilie. When he tried
Ito rally his shattered army !; IT was a t,
CentreYille. When Jackson MAJ rched away,
from HI Manassas, after having burned
Union stores In II Pope's rear at Brlstowi
Station and Manassas he wentSto Cen
3treville. When u q ckson I took up his pos Y:
front Pope and a waitst the coming OF Long
street, he marched out through Centre
tvtlle.s When Pope retired from the field,
Sof he second Bull Run, he fell back To
3Centreville,aa when Ja ckson3 FOL lowed!
him to Chantilly. the Army of n orthern3
Virginia encaTppe around Centre les
Those tiles varlously called the first
ana second Bull Run and first and
second Manassas Nigh Sas accurat ely& and
more aptlyS he called the attles OF Cen-t
treville. Tho Stone BrIdg e where 4 ylerG
feinted at Beauregard's Is left and engaged
Evans and Cooke Sunday. y uly q, 1851,
is six miles from Manassas. and three
miles from centreville. u sudley. where
Mcdowell crossed In the execution of the
|ill-tinned turning nloyemen t, is five lniles3
from centreville and seven from h1anas-i
sa The intersecti Ion the. sudle road ll5
,sand the Warrenton F. Ike, where 4 he see:
ycrest conflict took. place u n "a 1s6l, and
where there wasgsevere fighting in 1852
las four miles from CentCeyille and q five:
from Manassas, Grovet6n, the middle
ground OF the lighting AUGUST p and q. /.
1862, is "a bout the same distance west Of
centreylle and northwest OF Manassas ,l
Cub Run Bridge. the poin on the pike
where the worst phase of n the rederal 7
route took place. is two mi les from Cen
and 81 zen from n ssns ss III
The poprlatioii3o Of centreylllle is about
1.-THE same as III I 1851 and the number Of
houses has not inerea sec. a dozen par-.
sons live there now who lived there dur,
ing the war. They nursed s. he sick nd
wounded OF both armies and helped bury W
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