The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1922-05-25

which soon developed into panic ana
rout. II was on that field that the
sobriquet "Stonewalp was FIRST ap
piled to General Jackson.
Very early after the fighting, which
began ut the stone bridge and between
the pike and Sudley, had developed
to the intensity and extent OF bat.
tie, Union shell from Ricketts,
regular battery pierced the Henry house
and killed Its owner. Mrs. Judith
Henry, In her bed. She was old and
bedrldden at the time. Soon after that
the house was in flames, and It's de-
struction was hastened by more can
non shot and shell. Mrs. Henry IL
buried in the fnmily graveyard. with
many Of her kin. a few yards behind
the house. Close to their tombstones
lone might almost say among them
islands a little brown-red stone
monument built by soldiers and dedi-
Gated q few days after the grand re-
view " washington.
The soldiers set up on and around
the monument shells and cannon balls
which they picked up on the felds,
for then part OF the country WINS
stili Uttered with the debris OF bat
tie and the country pitted with sunlren
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
~, fha e,ponfor onh haa,,io- a.<l.tf.... -
1902, were strewn over the. ground.
Along the Warrenton Pike.
On the warrenton pike, one mlla
west Of the Henry farm. Is Groveton.
Four houses and blacksmith shop
were there In 1891 and 1862. 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 Jnckson's right
and the Confederate center when Long
street Joined him.
Before the war a railroad, called the
independent railroad, was projected
to run from the Manassas Gap rail-
road at GAINESVILLE to Leesburg. The
road was graded. hills were cut
through and flls made over low ground
and stone culverts built over the runs
and larger creeks. No ties OF 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 railroad Is preserved
today. though the "cuts'' are grown up
in woods and the ellis" are generally
overgrown with pines and cedars. A
particular cut where troops, their am
munltlon expended. fought with
bayonets. dubbed muskets, and even
stones, Is about thousand yards
north Of the Dogan house.
Dead Thick on the Field.
Mrs. Dogan came home after tight
ing ceased and the armies moved on to
fight at Chantilly. Dead men lay 80
thick over that field that you couldn't
walk without stepping on them. They
had not been buried. Men had gone
about shoyeling dirt over them where
they lay, and the night before came
back with my children TO where the
house stood II rained and the dirt that
had been thrown over these men had
been washed Off"
A reporter who inspected the field
at the close Of the war wrote the fol-
lowing description OF n:
"From Alexandria to the battlefield
Is one wide area Of desolatlon. Fences
are utterly swept away. Here and
there dilapidated house shelters a
few squalld inmates.
"Once village Of rare beauty.
nerched upon a gentle slope OF a high
ridge and commanding a view OF fer.
tile valleys for many miles war-swept.
II and its ruins lie about, invested with
all the saddenlng influences Of perfec,
desOIation.
"The first Bull Run Geld Is distinct
~ marked with traces OF battle. Here
the shot and shell are thlckly strewn,
the trees splintered and in many places
the forest looks as n having been
visited by a terrific storm.
''The bones Of soldiers Of both armies
are scattered over the fields. and one
may find skulls enough to build Q
monument"
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