The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-08-16

SCa0 mcu lay 81 tuiCh aTOuuu mere
lOrty-.wo years ago that you couldn't
walk in the field without trcading on
hem. l hear the soldiers is coming
2ewn here this fall hope none of
.hcm don't get killed."
This was said by an old woman
'vhe, while she spoke, stirred ashes in
sa open fireplace with rusty bay
onet gripped in her withered hands.
-7er nsma, Lucinda Dogan.
This woman watched the course of
he battle Of Bull Run, July p, 1861.
Die heard the guns of Tyler's division
TAen they opened on Beauregard' left
hank at the Stone Bridge. She saw
aae columns of Hunter and Heintzcl-
-aao as they swept south from Sudley
20 turn the Confederate rear and seize
Che Manassas Gap railroad. She saw
she Confederate brigadcs of Bee and
fa7,ev driven from Buck Hill. She
aaw the Confederate troops swinging
&c :he Horth from the fords along
Bn]l Run. Ibis old woman saw the
SSree divisions Of McDowell's army
aad the armies of Beauregard and
,sohnson come together, and she saw
ass crimson struggle on Henry Hill.
She saw the Union troops give way
ate in the afternoon of that sultry,
3loody Sunday. Her vantage ground
VAS a hill at Groveton, a hundred
.aasas east of her dwelling and one
mile west of the Henry farm, the
focal point Of the first battle Of Bull
RnD.
Her farm-Peach Grove Farm,
9ro7eton-was the central field Of the
aecond battle of Bull Run, August %,
p and 30, 1862. The old woman
Kept her house while the fighting went
ID at Gainesville, two and q half
miles west, but on the second day,
august 20, was ordered from the field
'3.uing the artillery overture to the
engagement at Groveton. With three
children she found refuge at the
4svis house, mile away, listened to
She crash of the fight and lodged
stray shells. She returned to her
Some at Groveton as soon as Pope
withdrew toward Centervllle in his
,etreat from the Rappahannock to the
Potomac, and she saw the field of
'Srov eton in its CORY horror.
Mrs. Dogan is 81 years old, deeply
y-inkled, but right spry." Her
Demory is faithful. She said:
When the troops come down here
20, n hope they wont put ball car
auidges in their muskots. l don't
,yant to hear hundreds Of men lying
about the fields groaping and moaning
3Dr water. Just as soon as the firing
ceased, all you could hear was means
For water. It sounds plain, evan
nDv.
1T don't seem so long ago. 1t was
nj breakfast time Sunday morning
ahat We heard cannonading down the
pike toward Bull Run and my hus-
Band says the Yankees is coming
Ne went up on that hill yonder and
saw white smoke down by the Stone
Bridge. We saw men coming back
oeross the hills toward Sudley road
asad We knew the Johnnies were re-
aseating. The road was dry and we
sou)d see clouds Of dust rising above
ahe trees toward Sudley Springs.
I'VE saw dust of on the right in
the direction of Balls Ford, Black
Burns Ford and Manassas, and my
husband said that must be the
Southern soldiers coming from that
way. The men we saw coming from
asward Stone Bridge went up toward
Smiley. The shooting over there
around the Matthews house was
pretty brisk. Then we saw long
lines Ct men run across the Henry
aeld and 60 to the support of those
ahat had come down from the bridge.
Bows of cannon were drawn up across
ahe Henry place. The shooting was
getting sharper and sharper, and
every few seconds Q cannon would
seoH.
"AU our men who went toward
3hdlsyy Aegan to run back, stopping to
shoot assfsss as they could load. They
nan down Buck Hill with the Yankees
snnning after them. The fields around
one Henry house were filing up with
aaoops, and more were coming up from
aoward Manassas all the time. The
YAnkees CROSSED the valley and began
eRarging up che Henry Hill. By this
azne shsre was an arful din, and be.
tween che smoke and dust we oould
1nss catch . gl;npss Of the soldiers
Aase and there. The firing was very
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