The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-15
MANASSAS HOLDS
GOLDEN JUBILEE
Fifty Years Pass Since Bull
Run Battle Was
Fought
FORMER ENEMIES
MEET AS FRIENDS
Grand Army Posts and Con-
federate Veterans Unite
in Celebrating Fa-
nous Fight

The Golden Jubilee Of Bau Run wiu
be celebrated this summer and the
veterans Of 'S1-ss will fraternize on
those historic fields. On July 81 half
a century will have elapsed since that
memorable encounter--which was a
small battle as battles came to be
measured during the ensuing four
years but sanguinary enough to teach
the South that the North was earnest
In its intent to preserve the Union and
bloody enough 70 teach the North that
tbs Confederacy WAS supported by
troops that would stand fire. Ii WAS
the sentimental and political signfh-
cancs OF Bull Run which causes 1t to
bulk 30 large in history. The result
elAted the South and awakened the
North TO sense OF the magnitude OF
she task Il had essayed.
Tho determination Of thu veterans
will be. It is thought n great specta-
Gle. The jubilee has been promoted
BY George c. Round. a Union veteran.
living at Manassas. By Eweli Camp.
Confederate Veterans or Manassas,
and By the Manassas Chapter, United
Daughters of tho Conredhracy. Many
of the Confederate camps Of North
srn Virginia will attend and hundreds
of camps will be represented. A
have accepted the invitation to at
tend and responses have been received
By the committee OF arrangements
s~roTu thousands OF Union veterans
throughout tho eastern and middle
western and border States.
jewish Custom.
The Manassas Committee of Ar
engagements has drawn up the follow-
ing statement and Invitation:
@Then shalt thou cause the trumpet
Of the Jubilee To sound on the tenth
day OF the seventh month. Make the
trumpet sound throughout all your
land. And w shalt hallow the fif-
vteth year and proclaim liberty
throughout all tho land unto all the
Inhabitants thereof. II shall be Jahi-
lee unto YOU. Lesitfcus %. s-ia.
sTha Hebrew people had u custom
OF i Jubilee once IN nifty years. All
debts were cancelled. all old scores
wiped ont and there was rejoicing
throughout the land.
america Is In many respects He
brew nation. 1t worsnips the Hebrews
God. Its peerie cherish the Hebrew
traditions and believe In the Hebrews
Bible. On Ii the most solemn sane
items OF our Temples Of Law and
Courts OF Justice are tcunueu.
Half century ago atong Bun Run
the North and the South met in the
first pitched battle OF The Great War
New the people Of Manassas pro-
pose To the American nation Jubilee
FOR the 10th day of the seventh month
to continue To the 2lst day az the
month. Those who can do SO are in
vtted To meet on our historic plains.
These who cannot are invited to meet
at their homes and Join in the gen
:. erzl reioicinE OYER the r. stoIalion- OF
= National Unity and Coed Feeling.
r..Y. ~ and fex ~
are Invited to meet on Henry HID In
the field where the two battles Of Bull
Run ended Every surviving veteran
OF the war Is invited to write at once
!, e. ..EossaL fsLxiRg nagses age. residence
and service. with some appropriate
patriotic sentiment and stating wheth~
er he can be present or not. These
cards will be nerpetualix- preserved IN
our Carnegie Library
Monuments on Field.
There are three monuments on the
nuil Run fields. TWO Of these are
Union monuments and are truly Civil
war monuments in that they were
buljt by the soldiers themselves NJ
tt1es close OF the war-bnilt OF native
atone by the very men who had fought
an these acids. The Confederate mon
l1,iient stAntis over the graves OF many
OK the men killed ut ana around Grove
ton Corners.
r,f these monuments, Veteran
Rounds has written In late issue Of
the Manassas Journal as follows:
The army OF the Potomac, the
mightiest in history. on May -. 1850
uassed In grand review before the ma
finna on Pennsylvania avenue. Then
thA veterans marched back to their
rats,ns ON the Virginia hills. They were
dinhsnded. bearing with them the
rcara satisfaction that the republic q
Warrington and Lincoln been saved
10 humanity for all time. But. be-
fore they went to their homes, they
paused long enough to erect two mon
nments which win forever mark the
nOlranninx OF The Great War for the
Union. These unique memorials were
not ahafts OF victory. The brave men
who built them sung not their own
nraip>a They inscribed thereon nc
words OF denunciation for their brave
s,rsnonents. for when they had soldiers
svmpathy and soldiers admiration
p.,t7 - they saw the bones OF theiI
\ sss,asnxar brothern who fought and TEL
n fhceo earliest hours OF discourage
mont and gloom. they tenderiy gath
~rad them together. and with their
own hands, and with such tools q
ther had In their camps fashioned has
siIv from the native brown stone
tnsea rude memorials and inscribed
II Memory Of the Patriots Who
ISL ,,.....,,. ....a. ),
fha Henry Hill. the focal point Of the
lsghting Of the nrnt battle. ana the
H a11S1 son which thu 4elose OF the Aecona
iSS7s1A Ia August. 1852. WAS fought
TNe other monument stands on the
zach Tree FArm. near 0rOvetOn.
s11n1ra redcrasa lell like leaves befora
~ autumn wind IN their vain eifort