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u.
Within one-half square of Du-
pont Circle. Unusually attractive l. room and
2-bath home: hot water heat; garage for two
cars. Price. $4,000. very unusual buy in
7.
Beautiful six--oom home fac
ing magnificent government park: electric
lights; house in perfect condition throughout.
Price, $1,000. Terms can be arranged. lmme-
diate possession.
One OF the largest six-room
homes in very choice northwest location.
Hot-water heat: electric lights: hardwood
floors: double porches: exceptionally large yard
accept small property in Maryland as part
payment.
Q.
On Rhode Island ave. near
18th. Attractive 13- room and . bath home in
one of the Prettiest locations downtown. Hot
water heat. Price. sig. 800.
10.
Groom and bath home in best
section of Petworth: hot-water heat. cleo
trio lights; hardwood floors: large lot to 15-ft.
alley. Can be sold $3.50 cash and balance
monthly.
SAGER,
h St. NV.
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HEDGES & MIDDLETON. Inc.
1884 H Street NV Phone Main 1923
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FOR sALE-H0UsEs
Brookland.

olOOAldllu.
Here's an exceptional bargain. nne
stucco home. completely detached and IN
excellent condition: has g rooms and bath.
summer Kitchen, cleo. lights. gas; deep
lot to paved alley. Price, $6,OOO Splen-
\ did terms.
Mt. Pleasant.
An unusual opportunity to secure vel!
built brick house at low ngure.
rooms and bath q bedrooms). h.-w.h.;
elec. lights. laundry equipment, paved
alley: House is in good condition and
can he bought for only $1,000; pleasing
Northeast.
ON EAST CAPITOL. ST. An attractive
house Of rooms and bath. h.w.h elec.
lights. colonial front porch. double rear
p"rclles. screened in very deep lot "ox
80 feet to paved alley. This house is In
perfect condition; possession. Price.
$3.50.
Columbia Heights.
splendid paying investment. This prop
rrty be purcha sed ut a low figure.
Located between two lines. A two
family fla: residence of ; rooms and bath
each; rear pOrrhes: modern heating plant:
large lot "Ox120 feet deep. to alley; room
for garage. Only 1875; terms arranged.
P H l. L IP s,
X Ave. NV.
lain SO.
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$780,.
WASHINGTON Heights.
SZU,W.
On Lamont St.

First floor: Reception hall. parlor. dining
room. pantry. kitchen, front and rear porch
Second floor: Large living room. = bedrooms
and bath. back porch. glassed-in sleeping
porch. Third door: Three bedrooms and bath
large porch. portion glassed in as sleeping
porch: has laundry. maids room and bath
Pittsburgh automatic heatar and hOt-water
heating system. House in good condition.
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The Home of Homes.
Tel Main 4340 14O6 St. NV
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PRICE, $500.
Six rooms and bath; buff brick; a. mi; newly
painted snd papered; vacant; 11th st. NV. near
Columbia road: house in fine condition. Terms.
UNION REALTY CORPORATION.
1910 q ST. NV Tel Main S4l5
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NEAR CAPITOI-EXCELL.ENT LOCATION
rooms. hct water electricity. gas. vacuum
konnections: splendid condition: deep yard.
vide alley; vacant. Call ct Mass. ave. ne.
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CLEVELAND PARK.

INrRUST Us To BUILD THAT HOME or
your choice. We carefully plan, help finance
and build your lot to your ideas. Is YEAR,
experience. last 10 in Washington. TEPPER
CONST. co. S17 &C. St NV. Phone II. 1874.
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ROOM, DETACHED. FRAME Dwellings
OF 30x14o: garage: chicken house; water and
k~veF connections: convenient to stores. church
nd cars. LEWIS MILBOCRN, 5O4 MINI. ave-.
o~..,.~ n
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738 18th Street NV.
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S13 18th St. NV.
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS.

New. ready to move in. 1917 Randolph ST.
n w.; eight rooms. two baths: two screened
sleeping porches, screened breakfast and kitch-
en- porches: beamed ceiling in dining room:
hot-water heat: instantaneous gas heater: on
lot c5xl42 It. to paved alley: ideal location.
Be sure and this house Sunday. For sale
by any broker or owner. W. G. IRWIN. 1l5
Allison st. NV. Phone Col. 1895.
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MT. PLEASANT.
10 large rooms and tiled hath In excellent
keceion Of Mt Pleasant: modern in every de-
tail and in perfect condition early posse ssion: :
hollow tile garage. Address Box 2ji-H. star
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Cleveland Park.

Ross place. frame bungalow type. contains
9 rooms and tile bath; has gas. electricity and
hot-water heat; lot Al feet front; ample space
for garage; occupied by owner: be in
spected BY appointment. There II first
trust Of s.. 900 at per cent: would require
4 small amount Of cash.
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block CEMENT HOUSE IN PICTURESQUE
surroundinss: 2 floors. cellar. fne springs.
heres Of woods: ideally situated near new
Wa shing ton Annapolis co1crete boulevard:
miles from Treasury: Is minutes walk from
Andover II. r. station. Immediate possession
'riee. s.. 900; terms. Address Box 2s6 h.
&c, o6Bc> c1s
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Ontario Pl NV.

3 stories. consisting of 10 rooms t6 bed
roomsJ and tile bath; has gas: electric lights
and heated by hot water; front and rear
space for garage: can be inspected by appoint
ment from this Office Has first and second
trust; only small cash payment is required.
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DETACHED s-ROOM AND FINISHED ATTIC.
hollow tile home in 18th st. Highlands. On
Arxe. shady lot with garage. Beautifully dec
6rated in enamel and mahogany finish. Open
fireplace. instantaneous heater. hardwood hoors.
hot-water heat, slate roof: 1874 Montague 1T.
bpen for inspection all DAY sunday: ~
.hErACHED-NINE ROOMS. HOLLOW TILE.
.aeS-grade construction large corner lot I;
rhads. 1911 Mckinley st.. Chevy Chase. p O.
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Convenient to the East Capitol car line
good brick house with rooms and bath; ;
heated by latrobe; lot is 1880 to loft
alley: this is cheap house in u very desir-
able location; clear Of any trust; only s., ,0OO
cash is required.
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NllOOul liS ~.
Convenient to the Mount Pleasant car line ::
2-story brick; has rooms and tile bath: all
modern improvements-gas. electric lights and
hOt-water heat: lot is 22x1Oj to 2O-ft. alley:
ample space for 2-car garage. This property
il occupied by owner; in good condition; pur-
chaser can get immediate possession.
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C0LCMBiA HEIGHTSIWHITE OR COLOR
ed-Nice Groom and bath brick new garage.
This il a good buy. Price. $500. Terms.
Cau Col 1902 afer pm. "
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Three stories; store first door. rooms
and bath on second floor. rooms and bath
ON fourth floor; has gas and electricity, heated
by hot water; tenant is now paying $125 per
month; trust Of $500.
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M. tne Caption.
The Congressional Library and House of
Representatives; corner brick in good condi-
tiOn consisting Of ~ rooms and baths;
has gas. electric lights and hot-a- furnace;
lot is 19x10O; 2-story brick suitable for 2-car
garage: occupied by owner; be inspected
by permit; immediate possession; reasonable
terms could be arranged
900
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IWE HAVE RECENT LlsTINGS OF SEVERAL
modern residences from $12. 900 TO- $50: 900.
Int and washington Heights. that We cannot
advertise in detail: price right Owners will
kccept reasonable terms and give immediate
bossession Write or call for full particulars
1 SIYQSE 4 FAIRFAX. 1912 y Y. ave.
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kl7 QUINCY PLACE N.E-G ROOMS AND
bath brick home; front and back porches: fur
haee heat; gas: good condition: between two
Ear lines: price reasonable. y
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>. 500 WILL Buy GOOD sIX-R00M AND
bath home having concrete cellar, furnace.
beep yard to paved alley. easy terms; located
bn 18th st. between G and ID Sc.
Fl. T. LAW. 1919 r At sc 25s
h. r. LAW. 1873 u ST. Sc. HAS A Nun
Der Of desirable HOMES for sale within easy
EaIking distance OF the NAVY. YARD. PRICE
fanEine from 200 to $ 900: easy terms;
BARGAINS.
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$500 Cash.
BUNGALOW. CHEVY CHASE, D. c.
Five rooms. tile bath, h.-w. heat, gas, cleo,
fireplace; 5O11JO; new.
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The Rock of Gibraltar.

THE Rock Of Gibraltar, taking into
consideration the far-carrying
guns Of today. is Of even greater i'm
portance. because of its commanding
position at the mouth Of the Mediter-
ranean. where that sea is little more
than twenty miles wfde-about as
wide as from Calais to Dover-than 1t
was in the old days.
Gibraltar was captured by the Brit.
ish on July "a. 1904. and from that day
has never been out Of British hands
At first little Importance was attached
to this stronghold. For the succeed
repeated attempts to recapture It,
however, and on one occasion they al
most succeeded. A French and a
Spanish force having been collected
on the isthmus that joins the rock to
the mainland, goatherd offered to
show them a path up the sloping
sides OF the rock, which he had rea-
son to believe was unknown to the
British. This offer was accepted. Five
hundred troops ascended quietly one
night and took shelter in a hollow
called by the Spaniards the little
chair" At daybreak next morning
they ascended higher. took the signal
ly looked for expected reinforcements.
The reinforcements failed to arrive.
The armed garrison sailed forth and
drove the invaders down the rock. The
little chair" was filled up and the
place made stronger than ever. All
subsequent, attempts to capture the
rock failed. One Of them was a siege
by Spain and France, beginning in
1779. and not terminating until Sep
tember, 1888.
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~ ULL RUN comes into the news
* again, but in q far happier
way than when It made its
frst appearance on tho print
"a page. That was sixty years ago.
it II to be made q battlefield park as
Q memorial to tho soldiers who fought
ON that field. The Lee highway. be-
ing developed as ono Of tho great east
and west automobile roads, passes
through the fields. that highway tax
ing unto itself as one OF its sections
ths old warrenton turnpike. which was
one Of the main civil war roads Of Vir-
sinia-
Efforts have been made for twenty
years to have the government take
over tho fighting ground Of Bull Run
and care for IT after the manner of
: tho fields Of Gettysburg and Antietam.
or to buy the ground on which stand
two simple little monuments that
were set up on particularly tragic
parts of the battlefields by Union
troops in 1855. The proposal that the
Bull Run battlefields should be held
by the nation as a battlefield park has
been urged by organizations Of Union
and Confederate veterans and by
many other patriotic association but
there has always been sufficient In
difference or hostility on the part Of
Congress to thwart the plan. Though
very little. II anything, has been spok Ell
against the proposal. there was for
many years manifest Indifference in
Congress to making battlefield park
Of lands on which Union armies twice
met defeat.
There has been Incorporated under
the laws of Virginia THE Manassas
Battlefield Confederate Park" and the
finance beaE4, Of that corporation has
made plans f6r q financial campaign to
produce fund Of at least $4,000. half
Of which will cover the cost Of the bat
tlefleld and the museum already estab-
lished there. and the other half to be
used in laying out the battlefield and
in placing monuments and markers"
States will be given the opportunity, by
subscriptions secured through private
sources or by legislative appropriation.
to place upon the field special nonu-
msnts and memorials to commands that
participated In the battles. The an
nouncement has been made that ''The
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The Gift of the Nile.

A ERICA !, Is especially dependent
upon irrigation. and It has been
pointed out that modern engineers have
not devised any essentially new method
Of supplying thirsty lands with water
Reference may be made to the statement
Of Herodotus that Egypt is the gift Of
the Nile, and mention may be made of
the latest conclusion as to the source Of
the Nile floods. The observations Of
Lyons have finally demonstrated that the
rains falling in the immense basin Of the
White Nile are Of no Importance to
Egypt
From June to August the Nile rises.
and afterward sinks until once more the
foods chine down the Blue Nile firm
Abyssinia. Egypt is simply an irrigated
valley $50 miles long. and apart from
the Delta, which IL 100 miles long. this
valley is nowhere more than fifteen
miles wide. and in some spots 10 less than
q mile.
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house, and on the Dogan farm much OF
the killing of the battle was done.
Groveton was Jackson's right and the
Confederate center when Longstreet
Joined him. The man who is writing
this knew Mrs. Lucinda Dogan, her
daughter Mollie, and several Of the
grandchildren. An old colored man liv-
ing there in 1900, whose name was
Redmond. helped In the work of bury
ing the dead in 1862. Mrs. Lucinda
Dogan was eighty-seven years old In 1900
and she died ten or fifteen years ago.
She often told The Star man that she
was ordered from her house by one Of
Jackson's officers on the morning Of
August 20. 1862. and before she had
been gone ten minutes artillery opened
and heavy infantry fighting soon fol-
lowed.
Before the war q railroad, called the
Independent railroad, was projected to
run from the Manassas Gap railroad at
Gainesville (where the railroad crosses
the Warrenton pike west Of Groveton)
to Leesburg. The road was graded. hills
were cut through and fills made over low
ground and stone culverts built over the
runs and larger creeks. No ties or rails
had been laid. and when the war came
on all work stopped. 1t was along this
graded way that Jackson formed his line
for the second fight. The line of the
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dedication OF these monuments was
Gen. Montgomery c. Meigs. quarter
master general OF the Army. There is
In the War Department library a photo
graph taken on the day of the cere-
monies. Gen. Meigs is in the picture.
So, toe, is Gen. William Gamble, then
commanding the division in which the
battleffelds were, and Gen. Augur Is also
in the picture.
The Army OF the Potomac passed In
grand review on Pennsylvania avenue
May %. 1866. The veterans were en-
camped in Virginia and their camps ex-
tended far west of Arlington and Alex
andria, and there were camps around
Fairfax Court House. The story goes
that after the review. and before being
discharged, there arose desire to erect
monuments on the Bull Run fields. The
movement was started by women, who
visited the Fairfax camps at the close
OF the review and were shown over the
Bull Run fields, where they had lost
kinsmen. An impromptu meeting was
held at Fairfax and a program mapped
out. Maj. Wickersham, one of the sur
vivors of the desperate charge Of the
Sth Pennsylvania Cavalry at Chan
cellorsville, and then a brigade chief
of staff. drew the necessary orders,
which were Endorsed by Gen. William
Gamble and forwarded to department
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Of consideration as the most interesting
spot in that far-fung battle line,' the
fact of its deliberate selection in the
spring Of 1865 and. the most impressive
ceremonial and formal dedication Sun
day. June II. 1855, leave no manner Of
doubt as to what the soldiers themselves
thought Of the question we are dis
cussing."
+ The household around which the
northern and southern armies circled SO
suddenly in the first battle Of Bull Run
was a family made up one half of
northern and one-half Of southern blood
judith Henry was born Judith Carter,
and she was direct descendant of
that celebrated Virginia character known
in the early colonial period as "King'
Carter: Her husband. DR.. Isaac Henry,
who died in 1881. was a native of Phil
adelphia, and descended on his mothers
side from the Morris family. He was
commissioned surgeon in the Navy by
PRESIDENT John Adams. and served in
the short war with France on the Con-
stellation. under Commodore Truxton.
Their youngest son, Landon Henry,
served as a sergeant throughout the
Seminole war and died in the service of
yellow fever at Key West. None Of the
descendants Of Judith and Isaac Henry
served in the Confederate army. Hugh
2nd John, sons. were school teachers by
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Battlefield May Turned Into Pa1
MOVEMENT Take
49, Of the Civil War Took Battlefield Memorial the Soldiers
Who Fought TereEHor Have Purchase
Land and Care for Manner of the Fields Gettysburg
the Heaviest Fighting Took Pace-Famous Houses Where Generals Had Their
and Monuments Put Up by Soldiers

yards behind the house. Close to their
tombstones-one might almost say
among them-stands little brown-red
stone monument built by soldiers and
dedicated few days after the grand re-
The soldiers set up on and around the
monument shells and cannon balls which
they picked up on the 'helds, for then
part of that country was stu Uttered
with the debris Of battle and the country
been very shallow in the making. and In
many places the skulls and skeletons OF
men, for the most part men who had
been killed in the greater and heavier
lighting Of 1862. were strewn over the
Lieut.. George Carr Round. deceased.
q northern soldier. who settled at Ma
nassas many years ago. and was es-
teemed one Of the broad minded. pro-
gressive and public-spirited men OF
Of the history Of the Henry family in
q letter which he wrote November 5.
1918. to the Bull Run battlefield board
of the War Department. That board.
Col. H. Q. 8. Heistand. Col c. B.
appointed by Lindley NJ. Garrison. Sec
retary of War. In connection with the
provisions of an act Of Congress. ap-
proved March 8. 1918. entitled IAN act
to protect the monuments =. "a, already s,.i
Va. and other monuments that may
be there erected" The board favored
the purchase Of the land. and strongly
favored the purchase of the sites Of the
monuments which Union Veterans had
but they thought that the, price asked
for the farm by the Henry heirs. $50. 900.
was excessive, being at the rate Of $15s
an acre.
*s+*
A ND this brings up the suggestion
"A that it is fair to quote from this
letter to the War Department In reply
to the departments statement that It
thought the price asked Tor the Henry
farm was excessive. Lieut.. Round
wrote: -.
1.-THE Henry heirs have given respect
full consideration to the communication
from your board regarding the price at
which the Henry farm is offered to the
their uncle, Hugh Fauntleroy- Henry.
from whom they inherited the property,
that the estate should continue in the
family, where it had remained since 1t
come from the crown Of Great Britain.
alienated that it should pass into the
control Of the United States govern
ment, which he believed would pay
proper respect to and take proper care
Of the family burial place, q subject
that lay near his heart ,.
'The heirs, on coming into posses
sion Of the property. found that II was
mot capable of subdivisisn stOesAdyan-
tage, and determined to- offer It for
sale. They appreciate, however. the
many reasons urged by the public. and
place should pass into the hands Of the
general government. and are sincerely
desirous to cooperate in bringing this
about. They do not desire to place an
excessive or fictitious valuation on the
property. The price fixed upon f$20. .000)
Is 81, 900 less than they understand their
uncle was offered in 1876. and to their
minds is q compromise between Its
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valuation for farm and residential pur-
poses and such historical and sentiment
tai valuation as attaches to It in the
public mind as well a. In the minds Of
THE undersigned, attorney for the
heirs. desires to call your attention re-
spectfully to some considerations pecu-
liar to this case. The views he will
occupied any confidential relations to
his clients and were urged BY him
upon representations Of tho United
States and upon the Grand Army Of the
Republic and Confederate Veterans long
before be such service r. and he he
that means. He might aid In bringing
about a solution satisfactory to ali.
,"He respectfully represents:
First, whatever price is paid In this
for other cases: neither can the prioe
which ought to be paid be well inferred
from prices at which other historic
places have been offered or purchased.
There is no other such property in the
United States or in the world. It Is the
battle OF the greatest war In our his
tory. the greatest among all civilized
! PEOPLES in all history. It embraces the
; field where two great battles ended, the
ital, both battles being fought especially
for the protection of the same This
was the field where jackson stood
! like stone wall in the first battle, and
Sykes. Reno and Reynolds In the Sec
ond, the lines of battle being reversed in
the two engagements and the result, SO
far as this field was concerned, being
reversed. also, the Confederates having
held the Henry hill at sundown July Il,
1851, and the Union forces at sundown
August 30. 1852. -
':In this same field. exactly half a
century later, the blue and the gray
lined up, the one on the north and the
other on the south. and shook hands
in friendship and ate and drank to-
gether as q token Of peace and good
win. an event absolutely unprecedented
In the annals of the human race.
Second, the Henry hin ID the loca-
ton Of the first monument erected on
any battlefield Of the great war. The
site was selected by the veterans them.
selves from all possible sitee between
the SusQuehanna. and the Rio QSande.
|If the oranion Of the soldiers who fought
the great war TO . dni1h Is worthy
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or fifteen years ago II was as bad, il
not worse, than any other road in Vir
ginia. but it has been much improved,
ard as part of the Lee highway. will be
made into one of the fine automobile
roads of the United States. The road
TO Fairfax Court House Is an excellent
one. There you turn west on the Little
river pike. That Is the road which leads
from Alexandria to the west by way uf
Fairfax and the gap at Aldie. One mile
west of Fairfax Court House there is
fork and the left-hand fork is the be-
ginning of the Warrenton pike. From
Fairfax TO Centerville. around and in
which McDowells army lay before be-
ginning the attack on the Confederates
west of Bull Run, is seven miles from
Fairfax. There you see the Bull Run
mountains. 1t is about five miles to
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Inauguration Of the plans for carrying
out the details Of this memorial Will
take place on the BATTLEFIELD Of Manas-
sas on the anniversary Of that battle,
ieved, will gather on the battlefield on
that day, and great many people from
washington will be present.
TT il about twenty-five miles from
J. washington by wagon road to the
eastern edge Of the bloody zone Of the
battlefield of the first Bun Run. or "the
INST battle of Manassas" That is
about the distance to tho picturesque
old red stone bridge which spans the
historic creek or ''r,nn" called Bull Run.
and which no doubt derives its name
from the Bull Run mountains. an east
ern OUTPOST Of the Blue Ridge. In which
the stream has its source. 1t Is over
this old Bull Run stone bridge that
the Washington-to-Warr turnpike
leads. Along the banks Of the stream,
at the bridge. and below and above IT,
began the fighting on Sunday morning,
July q, 1861, which developed into a
battle that was heard around the world.
and which the northern troops and his
torians generally called the battle OF
Bull Rum" and which the southern n,
the battle Of Manassas"
pike, after crossing the bridge,
pasS~s west, with the land rising grad
GAfY to q ridge on each side OF ~.
This ID the land that>was wet with the
blood Of men and sprinkled with corpses:
Two or three old houses. the names OF
whose owners stand out in civil war
annals, can be seen on those rising
slopes. A mile Of travel westward from
= the bridge brings you to crossroads.
IT 10 the junction of the Warrenton pike
and dirt road which leads from the
Potomac river and the town Of Dunn.
fries to Leesburg and the mountains Of
the west. But 1t came to be known
during the battle era OF the republic.
and Is 20 known today. as the Manassas
Sudley road. because 1t Is the main way
between the old railway hamlet OF
Manassas Junction and Sudley Springs.
& village where there are springs strong
m sulphur and iron, where there u q
uiill and. a mseting-hou and where
.niany years ago there was hotel which