The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1922-05-25
TO MAKE BULL RUN
BATTLEFIELD PARK
win Be Kept as Memorial to Sol
dlers Who Died In Con-
flicts There.
Feeling Has Long Been Strong That
Scene Of Early Clash, Of Arms
Should BE reserved--cIoss
70 National Capital.

Bull Run is to be made battlefield
park as a memorial to the soldiers
who fought on that field. The Lee
highway, being developed as one Of
the great east and west automobile
roads. passes through the fields, that
highway taking unto itself as one OF
Its sections the old Warreuton Civil
war roads OF Virginia.
Efforts have been made for 20 years
to have the government take over the
fighting ground Of Bull Run and care
for II after the manner Of the fields
Of Gettysburg and Antletam. or TO
buy the ground on which stand two
simple little monuments that were
act up on particularly tragic parts
OF the battlefields by Union troops In
1866. The proposal that the Bull Run
battlenelds should be held by the ma.
ton as battlefield park has been
urged by organizations OF Union and
Confederate veterans and by many
other patriotic associations, but there
has always been sufficient indifference
or hostility on the part Of congress
TO thwart the plan.
First Battle Of Manassaa
II is about rs miles from Washington
by wagon road TO the eastern edge
OF the bloody zone OF the battlefield
Of the first Bull Run, or the first
battle OF Manassas. That Is about
the distance to the picturesque old
red stone bridge which spans the his
torlc creek. II is this old Bull Run
stone bridge that the Washington to
Warrenton turnpike leads. Along the
banks OF the stream. at the bridge and
below and above II. began the fight.
Ing on Sunday morning, July 81, 1851,
which developed into the battle. The
pike, after crossing the bridge, passes
west. with the land rising gradually
to a ridge on each side OF It. This Is
the land that was wet with the blood
OF men and sprinkled with corpses.
Two or three old houses can be seen
on these rising slopes. A mile OF
travel westward from the bridge brings
you to a crossroads. II Is the juno
tlon Of the Warrenton pike and a dirt
road which leads from the Potomac
river and the town OF Dumfries 20
Leesburg and the mountains of the
west. In the northeast angle Of eie
roads, and close beside them, Is an
old stone house. In the annals OF the
Civil war that old house is denomlnat-
ed "the stone house." The other
battlefield houses, are named for their
owners, but this little house is often
mentioned merely as ''the stone house"
II might have been without a tenant
at the time OF the battle, or being a
stone house, and very conspicuous In
the battle zone, the soldiers thought
that "stone house" was the most At
ting name 10 call II.
Bloody Fighting Ground.
On the other side OF the road and
on wide 'level" beyond the crest
OF the slope is gray frame house
with few broken locust trees around
II. That Is the Henry house, which
stands on the Henry farm. The slope
from the pike up 10 that house and
the nat field around II was the scene
OF the principal collision between the
Union and Confederate forces In the
first battle OF Bull Run. and Il was
also lighting ground In the second bat
tie. something more than year later.
the blOOdlest and most death-bllghted
field OF the second battle being on the
Dogan farm. about mile 10 mile
and a half west.
The main line OF the Confederates
was on the Henry farm in the fight
Ing Of 1861, and II was the fnrthest
point OF the Union advance In their
march westward from the stone bridge
and south from Sudley springs. II
was on mat field that the Union lines
waVered. broke and began the retreat