Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-08-12

member Of the congregation. All the
churches which have been named
were used as hospitals during and af-
ter each battle.
Centerville has undergone little
change in the last forty-three years.
Old earthworks encircle the hamlet.
The Four Chimney house, which was
McDowelrs headquarters before the
first battle, is in decay, but the house
which was Pope's headquarters af-
ter the second battle is occupied and
we'll kept. When the Union army
moved west from the heights OF. Ar
lington it marched to Centerville, 20
miles away.
BIackburn's Ford.
Blackburn's Ford, on Bull Run,
where Richardson's brigade encoun-
tered the troops Of Jubal Early on July,
18, 1861. is three miles from Centerville.
1t was from Centerville that Mcdowell
moved against Beauregard on the
morning Of July 81. and 1t was at
Centerville that strong efforts were
made to rally the Union troops in the
evening and night Of that day. It
was to Centerville that Jackson
marched after destroying stores In
Pope's rear at Bristow Station and af-
ter the engagement at Brandy Sta
tion and Kettle Run. 1t was from
Centerville that Jackson moved to take
up his position along the railroad
grade between Sudley and Gainesville,
there to await the coming Of Long
street. 1t was to Centerville that Pope
retired after fighting at Gainesville,
Groveton and Sudley. 1t was from
Centerville that the Union and Confed-
crate forces moved to Chantilly, four
miles away where Phil Kearny was
killed.
Manassas has had great changes.
In 1861 1t was a mere hamlet at the
junction Of the old Orange and Alex
ander and the Manassas Gap rail-
roads. It Is now a small village Of per-
haps Of $500 inhabitants. and Is the
whereas during the war Brentsville, six
miles south, had that distinction. The
Henry farm and the Henry house In
the southeast angle Of the junction OF
the Warrenton pike and the Sudley-
Manassas road are owned and tenant
ed by a nephew Of Mrs. Judith Hen
ry, the wartime owner, and who was
killed by a Union shell bursting
through the house early in the first
battle. Mrs. Henry was bed-ridden
invalid at the time the shell broke
through the side Of the house and
burst in her bedroom. On the Henry
farm is a small monument similar to
that at Groveton, and 1t is inscribed:
In memory Of the patriots who fell
at Bull Run. Erected June 10, 1865"
On the Henry farm have been driv-
en- stakes In the earth to mark where
Colonel Cameron. commanding the
Seventy ninth New York regiment
was killed, where General Bee was
killed, where Ricketts, battery was cut
to pieces, and Wade Hampton was
wounded. In a piece Of dense wood
land on the field two bits Of board nail
ed to trees have inscribed, General
Wilcox and Kirby Smith shot here"
A rail fence stands just where the
fence stood along which Jackson's bri-
gade was drawn up when General Bee
gave him the soubriquet Of "Stone-
wall"
That place on Chinn Hill where Col.
Fletcher Webster son Of Daniel
Webster, was killed in the second bat
tie, Is pointed out by people who live
there.
Reminders Of the fighting at Bull
Run are always coming to light.
Bayonets, gunbarrels, shell, belt buck
les, canteens, bullets and buttons and
the bones of men and horses are
brought to the surface at every
ploughing or every heavy rain. Hun
ters often come upon the skeletons In
the woods-mostly bones Of men
wounded who crawled to the shelter
Of thickets and died. At the close OF
the war the Federal authorities dug
up all the bones they could find inside
the positions occupied by the Union
troops and carried them to Arlington
for final burial Nearly all were un-
known. This Is the history Of the
bones of the poor unknown in the Ma
tional cemetery. AS the positions of
the opposing armies often overlapped,
the remains of many Confederate lie
in Washington Cor. Of the
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