The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-24


a, botA conflicts u thc Bull Run
field
one o those aho live in Gtovetou
now aud who will see the Blues and
the Browns manoeuver over the his
toric country is Lucinda Dogan. She
Is s., but her recollection of both bat
ties Of Bull Run is as clear and vivid
as if the conflicts had occurred yes.
tcrday instead Of more than 10 years
ago.
Mrs. Dogan was ordered from her
home in Groyeton By one Of Jackson's $
officers on the morning of August 20,
/ and before she had been gone quar-
ter Of an hour the artillery duels Of
the opposing armies had begun and
solid shot and shell we're crashing
through her house. Mrs. Dogan re-
turned to her home after the with
drawal of Popc's forces and assisted
the soldiers in caring for the wounded
and burying the dead
In fact, it was on the Dogan farm
that the severest fighting Of the Sec
ond battle occurred A short time
before the Civil war number of
northern capitalists started to build
railroad from g Gainesville northeast to
Lecsburg. The roadway had been
graded, the low ground filled in and
cuts made, when ,hc war was begun,
and it was along the line Of this road
that jackson formed his command for
the second fight.
The line of the road can be clearly
seen at the present time, although the
cuts are somewhat filed in and the
course of the road is sparsely wooded.
The cut where the Union and Confed-
crate troops fought hand to hand with
bayonets and clubbed muskets is only
about an eighth of mile from the
Dogau house.
Several churches and many farm
| houses in the neighborhood were de-
stroyed during the Civil war engage
ments, and most of them have been
restored on their original foundations.
And some others, which were not 80
badly damaged at the time, or which,
for one reason or another, have not
since been repaired, still bear scars OF
the battles in the marks of shot and
she'll.
Groveton is aboat mile west, on
the Warrenton pike, from the pivotal
field of the first battle of Bull Run,
and from hill few rods from the
Dogau house fine view can be OBJ
tained of the Henry house and the
Henry field, where the Union advance
form the direction Of Sudley was first
checked and where, later, the panic
first seized the troops.
Sudley Springs, where Mcdowell
crossed Bull Run creek in his fruit
less effort to take Beauregard in the
rear, is the same quiet little hamlet
that it was in war days-even quieter,
IN fact, for in ante-bellum times the
waters Of Sudley's sulpher springs
we're widely known throughout the
South, and the place had many visi.
tors at certain seasons Of the year.
A solid shot from q Union battery,
which made breach in the walls Of
the Sudley meeting house, has been
kept as a relic by members of the con.
gregstion. After both battles Of Bull
Run the meeting house was used as Q
hospital, as in fact, were all the
churches in the vicinity.
At Censreville, not far away, and
also in the zone Of the Civil war con-
fliots, the old earthworks erected at
that time can plainly be seen, and the
town has undergone very little change.
The famous four chimney hou
which was McDovell's headauarl
before the frst battle Of Bull Ru .
in ruins, hnt the house whero uen.
Pope made his headquarters after the
second battle is in an excellent state
VI preservation ana ID occupied at the
present time.
Manassas has undergone greater
change in the period following the
Civil war than any Of tte other towns
in the battlefield area. In 1861 it vas
merely collection of houses at the
junction of the old Orange and Alex.
audria and Manassas Gap railroads,
while now it has population Of about
1000 and is the county seat of Prince
William County.
On the Henry farm, before referred
to, stakes have been driven in the
ground to designate the points where
Col. Cameron, commanding the Seven
ty.niuth New York regiment. was