The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-19
Do you mean that you'll enlistg"

Washington quick enough"
 4.In the Federal army, of course?" k ttSurely-in the fight for the Union''
 Bully for you, Frank" cried the officer, impulsiyely graspfng the boys hand. That will be splendid news for the colonel"
 The somber scowl overspreada Frank Haverill's face again He rose to his feet and said earnestly:
 f'No, Lieutenant West. 1 charge you, upon honor, not to tell my father-not to tell any one-but to keep this a se- cret between ourselves. It will be time enough for them to know when I have proved myself a man again, lieutenant, I am going to Washington to enlist. But that is all that will be known about me for the present, per haps~ forever. Even if you hear of me in the days to come 1t won't be under the name of Frank Haverill.
 q am going to start all over again under new name. which won't have a spot of dishonor on it, and Uncle Sam and Father Abraham Lincoln will have a brand new recruit, Torn today. Do you understand. lieutenant? That sweet lady, heavens own angel mother to me. has stopped down and grabbed me out of hell. and she shall yet have reason to be glad that sine did so or my. father will never set eyes on his son againP' =
 When Colonel Haye1tn arrived in Washington, which at that period had not yet outgrown the aspect of a shift less, overgroxn Virginia town, he found it transformed into a vast, chaotic mil itary camp. Every incoming train from Baltimore or from the west brought it's s<aR tSs -10 0vscs driven like cattle to the barracks and drill grounds on the Potomac flats, near the end of the Long bridge and within sight of the steeples and roofs of Alex andria, whereen a clear day the south ern flag could be seen from the very windows of the White House, floating def1antly.
 While Washington was getting ready to send the Army of the Potomac to in wade Virginia, Robert Ellingham re- ported to General Lee in Richmond, 115 miles to the southward, and found the new Confederate capital likewise seething with activity.
 Lee was exercising all his energy, sa- gacity, skill and experience in the tour de force of sending an equipped army to Johnston and Beauregard in the field at the threatened points. From one of these points, the great valley of Virginia lying between the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah mountains, he mad called Colonel Thomas Jonathan Jack son, an eccentric Presbyterian profess or at the Virginia Military institute in Lexington, and who in the first brief month since the breaking out of the war had developed aggressive qualities calculated to attract the attention of the authorities at Richmond.
 < Lieutenant Dillingham;, promoted to captain. naturally gravita ted to the new brigade of Jackson, who was now ele- vated to the rank of brfgadier general of volunteers. The regiments of his brigade were composed of the very flower and pride not only of the valley but of the whole commonwealth of Vir gfnia. and even before Jackson's troops took the field they had already begun to receive the impress of the iron hand Of their leader. a
 Their first destination was Manassas Junction, the point of union of the rail- road coming into Virginia from Wash ington with atbranch road leading into the Shenandoah valley. General Lee had pointed out that this strategic point would in all probability be the first battlefield in the move to check the Federal advance toward Richmond, and he now concentrated all available forces there.
 On a small stream called Bull Run, some thirty miles southwest of Wash ington, Beauregard awaited the arriva al of Mcdowell. The banks of this stream are abrupt and densely wood ed, but it is fordable in numerous places, and at that lime was crossed on the Centerville and Harrenton turn pike road, below Sudley church, by a stone bridge. @
 It was on q bright, sultry Sunday morning of mid-July that the two armies of brothers-disrupted members of family republic that had held to- gether for three generations-irst emerged in serried battle lines six miles long from the mysterious Vir- gfnia forests on either side of Bull Run and rushed forward to fight breast to breast for victory. ?
 The Federal plan of operations, cred tied to the still masterful Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, started with the planting of an entire division of fully 15.O00 men in the rear at Center vile, to protect the communications. SOiOACt 1AdS tAA 5 ACSAAlCAts tO HIS AA- tense chagr1n, was here helplessly de tained. Another division, in which General Buckthorn's brigade was in cluded, marched ahead to make the opening demonstration at the stone bridge. while two others crossed at the Sud1ey and other lords, to concentrate on the southern bapk of the stream and flank Beauregard's left
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