The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-05-26

None came to chronicle a newer war.
BE then our sacrifice the last" they said.
Pray God the need may never be for
more"
r d ID. in the Kansas City Star.
on a wide "level" beyond the crest
of the slope is a gray frame house
with few broken locust trees around
It, That is the Henry house, which
stands on the Henry farm. The slope
from the pike up TO that house and
the fiat field around il was the scene
of the principal collision between the
Union and Confederate forces in the
first battle of Hull Run. and ii was
also fighting ground i'm the second bat
tie something raoce than year later,
tie bIoodiest and most death-blighted
field of the second baf;e being on the
D,gan farm. about q nile to n mile
and half west.
The main line of the Confed crates
was on the Henry farm IN the fight
ing of 1851 and il was the farthest
point of the Uuion advance in their
march westward FROM he stone bridge
and south from SGdiry sNr.ugS. Ii
wns on that field thar the nion lines
waverpd. hroke and heran tho retreat
which soon developed into panic and
rout. IL wHs on that field that the
s0briquet "Stonewalr' was first ap-
piled To General Jackson.
Very early after the fighting. which
began at the stone bridge and between
the pike and Sudley, had developed
to the intensity and extent of Il bat
tie. Union shell from Ricketts,
regular battery pierced the Henry house
and killed its owner, Mrs. Judith
Henry, I'm her bed. She was old and
bedridden at the time. Soon after that
the house was In flames. and its de-
struction was fastened by more can
non shot and shell. Mrs. Henry is
buried in the family graveyard with
many of her kin, few yards behind
the house. Close To their tOmbStones
one might almost say among them
stands little brown-red stone
monument built by soldiers and dedi-
Gated few days after the grand re-
view In Washington.
The soldiers set up on and around
the monument shells and cannon balls
which they picked up on the fields,
for then a part Of the country was
still Uttered with the debris of bat
tie and the country pitted with sunken
graves. which had 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 fighting of
1852. were strewn over the ground.
Along the Warrenton Pike.
on the Warrenton pike, one mile
west of the Henry farm. is Groveton.
Four houses and blacksmith shop
were there in 1861 and 1867 The
houses were destroyed in the second
battle and three of them were rebuilt
after the war. One Of these was the
DOgan house, and on the Dogan farm
much OF the killing of the battle was
done. Groveton was JackSonS right
and tho Confederate center when Long
street joined him.
Before the war a railroad, called the
independent railroad. was projected
10 run from the Manassas Gap rail-
road AT GAINESVILLE 20 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
along all work stopped. Ii was along
this graded way that Jackson formed
his line for the second fight. The line
OF the unfinished railroa is preserved
today, though the "cuts" are grown up
in woods and the fills" are generally
overgrown with rlnes c=a g.