Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-01
CIVIL WAR REMIkISCENCE
TRAGIC INCIDENT OF FIRST
BATTLE OF BULL RUN.
Fatality at the Henry House
Descendants Of the Aged Woman
Who Was Killed.

A tragic incident of the battle Of Bull
Run was recalled today by Capt. Georgi
c. Round. a Union veteran and member
of the G. A. r., who is sometimes termed
the historian of Manassas" He re-
ferred to q recent ceremony In connection
with the noted Henry family, and gives
what he terms IAN important horoscope
of the future
Capt Round, who resides at Manassas
Va, says: Sunday, November II. 1907, ar
interesting group came before my eyes
into the baptlstry of the Trinity Episcopal
Church of Manassas, Va. The parents
were Prof Arthur l.. Henry and wife
who brought with them, according to thf
custom Of the law two small children
The girl aged four months. Judith Con.
stance Henry, was named for her great
grandmother. who was killed In heI
eighty-fifth year a. she lay bedridden In
her own house during the first great meet.
ing of the two great armies in the great
war. AS the little one lay sobbing in the
rector's arms I could but think of what
must have been the sufferings of mind and
body experienced by the elder Judith or
that tragic day.
1.-THE boy, now two years old. was
named Robert Morris Henry, after his
great-great-great-g grandfather, the Phila
delphia banker. the friend of Washington
WHO Hn6nCtC tne American reVOIuIlON. L
seems singular dispensation that brought
the armies of Mcdowell and Beauregard
contrary to the plans Of BOTH to encircle
that little home on the Henry hill-a home
representing in equal parts the best types
OF northern and southern civilization.
Relatives of Patrick Henry.
TT Is singular fact, and yet there car
be little doubt of it, that the Henry fam
lily of Philadelphia was nearly related tt
the family of Virginia made illustrious
by the orator who exclaimed in the house
Of burgesses. Give me liberty or give me
death The charts show that both fam
lilies emigrated from the same neighbor-
hood in the old country. and Patrick
Henry must have been the distant cousin
of Hugh Fauntleroy, Henry I.
1.-THE latter scion of this now famous
Scotch-Irish stock married Phoebe Nor
ris, the daughter OF Robert Morris, the
patriot and signer of the Declaration
Their son. DR.. Isaac Henry, was commits
stoned by John Adams as surgeon in
the small American navy of that day. In
the course of his career he married Judith
Carter, a direct descendant Of Robert
Carter, one Of Virginia's early governors
sometimes known as King Carter They
made modest and happy home on a
small farm. which had descended to Jul
dith directly from grant to Gov. Carter
from the crown of Great Britain.
Surgeon Henry died many years be-
fore the war, but his youthful bride sur
vived to meet tragic end. On that bright
and peaceful Sabbath morning she heard
the booming signal gun fired from the
Stone bridge, and asked her son John
whether 1t was thunder. The only per-
sons in the house with her at the time
were this son. her daughter, Phoebe Nor
ris Henry, and small colored girl. They
made an attempt 70 remove the old lady
as the armies encircled them, but were
forced to return, and soon after a shell
from Ricketts, Battery exploded in the
house and she was wounded to her death.
She was buried after the fight was over
by soldier hands in her own yard. The
only daughter. Phoebe, was made deaf
by the same explosion and remained so
to the end Of her life. Her son. Prof
Hugh F. Henry. I'd, who conducted a pri-
vate school Of high grade in Alexandria
was a bachelor. He subsequently removed
to the farm and Is now resting with his
sister by his mothers side. John, the
otner son, who was with his mother on
that fatal LIST Of July, had three children,
the only grandchildren Of Dr. Isaac Henry
and his spouse Judith.
Became Orphans Early.
These children. born after the war, were
early deprived of their parents by death,
and were reared by their bachelor uncle,
Hugh. who rebuilt the house on the old
site. Singularly they all followed the
profession Of their guardian. Miss Ida
L. Henry is a teacher On the Pacific coast.
Hugh F., Sd. Is a professional nnguist.
having studied in all the capitals of
Europe. Prof. Arthur L. Henry. after
teaching decade in other states, return
60 10 his native county and became prin-
clpal OF the Manassas graded school.
Here he married Miss Lena HerreIl, also
teacher. and settled on the He ry farm
where they look out daily over the field
where two battles ended. Their sheep
and cattle Craze quietly on the hill where
where Sykes and Reynolds thirteen
months later checked the onward sweep
OF the conquering legions of Longstreet.
immediately after the grand review OF
May. 1855. the Union veterans came here
before going to their homes. and erected
to their comrades who fell. the first of a
thousand monuments Of the civil war.
The trees. now well grown. were planted
at the same time that the monument was
Enclosed and formally dedicated
The G. A. R. veterans came here In
1902 after the Washington encampment,
and under the shade of the trees voted to
ask Congress to purchase the ground and
to preserve the monument forever.
In 1905. on this lofty summit of the
Piedmont plateau. the Army of the Po-
tomac. like the Israelites Of old, after
forty years of wandering, came to the
place OF its birth and was entertained by
Its former foes.
Robert Morris and Judith Constance
now laugh and crow here, and in the
golden future will romp and play like
other children over the green sward
around this rude memorial to the patriot
dead of the Army Of the Potomac.
Who shall cast the horoscope Of the
future for these little ones? Judith may
marry foreign prince, but I hope for
her better fortune. AS for Robert
Morris. venture to place him in nomina-
ton for President in the campaign of 1852
The south wants another President, and
wants him bad. Robert Morris would
undoubtedly have the solid support of
Pennsylvania and Virginia on the first
ballot. With the keystone state and the
Old Dominion at his back he ought to
win. In order that there may be no mis-
take call the attention of the world to
the fact that l started the Henry boom.
BY that time 1t may be the United States
of the world. OF course the originator of
the boom would expect to be in the cab
met and be modestly suggests that he
would not be willing to accept anything
less than the secretaryship of the Treas
UTy.
III half a century hence 1t became de-
sira5le 10 placate our British cousins the
future sovereign of the planet might as
sumo the title of Heny k
Troubles of a Con ducfor