Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-01-07
SOLDIERS STORIES.
ENTERTAINING "REMINISCENCES
OF THE WAR.
Graphic Account of Stirring Scenes
Witnessed ON the Battlefield and In
Camp-Veterans of the Rebellion Re-
cite Experiences of Thrilling Naturs.

The battletields of Bull Run. on
which the autumn maneuvers of the
army We're held, have undergone little
change since the civil War
Catharpin creek, Young's branch.
Cub run and Rocky ford are still pour
ing into Bull Run, and that historic
stream rolls sluggishly from the noun
tains 10 Aquai creek
There are the same open fields and
stretches of woods shown ON the topo-
graphic maps used in 1861 and 1862,
Sudley Springs and Groveton are no
bigger hamlets than at the time of the
battles; Centreville has rather shrunk
than grown, and Haymarket. on the
Sudley road. which was group of
three or four houses, has Disappeared.
Manassas, from a mere hamlet ut
the junction of the Orange and Alex
andria Railroad and the Manassas
Gap Railroad, has become a small vii.
lage and is the county seat of Prince
William County, whereas Brentsville
had that distinction in Americas
heroic age
The bells Of Sudley westinghouse
and Centreville church ring out every
Sunday, and old men pray there who
| listened to the firing, saw glimpses of
| the struggles. carried water to the
wounded and helped bury the dead
Those churches were hospitals during
| and after both battles.
\ shot from a Union battery, which
made breach in the walls of Sudlry
westinghouse, is preserved by il mem
Der of the congregation
Bethel Church, which was FitZ-John
porter's headquarters when he lay be
hind Dawkn's branch on August IS,
1862, has been removed four miles
south of the old Site, but the founda-
ton stones may he seen by those who
that obscures them.
The Henry house. the Chnn house.
! Dogan and Matthew houses, destroyed
10y shells, were long ago restored un
I their first foundations and are to-day
as they We're in 1861.
The Stene house still stands ut the
| crossing of the Warrenton pike ana
Sudley road and until recently was
! occupied by Il Virginia farmer who.
as cavalryman under Stuart, fought
over the fields around the house.
The Nan Pelt house, damaged Ivy
/ the first shell thrown from Tyler
! division when the fight opened ut the
/ stone bridge, is still there SO. TOO, Is
! the Robinson house and Robinson. the
old negro who dwelt there when
Barlow and Evans from the heights
north Of the pike To those on the south
! dwells there to-day.
The Lewis house, .TOhnstonS head.
quarters, is still occupied by MIR
Lewis, and the Hampton Cole house
which figured so conspicuously in the
! John Porter ease Is standing.
Mrs. Dogan. through whose farm
/ runs the railroad cut where Porter
Sigel, Reynolds and King fought Ii
dislodge Jackson on August 30, 1862
| is still living al GroVeton. She is NJ
years old and hearty. She likes moth.
! ing better than To tell of the red, grim
scenes of war
The fields in that bloody square
bounded by Centrcvile on the east
! Groveton and Gainesville on the west
Sudley on the north and Manassas on
! the south are, as n rule, still titled 10y
| the families who worked them whrI
! Prince William and Fairfax countie,
/ shook under the tread of armies and
crash of guns
/ 1t is believed that most of the bones
/ OF the men slain al Blackburn's ford
/ July Is, 1851, Bull Run. July u. 1861
! Stone bridge and Gainesville. AuglISi
/ - and 2S. 1862. and Grovetou aud
! Sudley, August - and 80, 1862, have
+ been exhumed.
/ Those recovered from the Fedora
/ positions were removed to Arlington
/ where many hundreds are hoapp,l
/ under the monument Of the TN
! known" and many other hundreds are
buried in individual graves marked
/ with little slab also inscribed I'm
! known"
/ Bones dug from the Confederate pu.
/ sitious In the first battle are lnterre
/ under Il red sandstone shaft mt Ma
naSsas. five miles south of the central
lighting ground. This shaft is in.
/ Scribe1: Dedicated by the Ladies'
/ Memorial Association of Manassas,
/ OF August 10 1879. 10 the Heroes Of
+ Virginia and Her Sister States Who
Yielded Their Lives, on July ~ and
II. 1861 and August % and 81. 1862.
in Defense Of the Confederate Cause. -
Close by the Henry house there is
II rude Union monument erected I'm
Memory Of the Patriots who fell at
Bull Run. Erected June ~. 1863"
In y bit of cedar woods by the rail
road cut at Grovpton there is another
! little Union monument In Memory
Of the Patriots who fell at Grovctou.
August IS. ~ and 30 1852
There is no Confederate monument
oI the battlefield
Zones taken from the Coufpdpryt,.