The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1922-05-25
TO MAKE BULL RUN
BATTLEFIELD PARK
Win Be Kept as Memorial to SOL
d:ers Who Died In Con-
flicts There.
Feeling Has Long Been Strong That
Scene OF Early Clash Of Arms
Should Be Prsssrsed-cioss
to National Capital

Bull Run is to be made battlefis d
park as memorial 10 the soldiers
who fought on that field. The Lee
highway. being developed as one OF
the great east and west automobile
roads. pusses through the fields. that
highway taking unto Itself as one OF
its sections the old warrenton Civil
war roads OF Virginia.
Efforts have been made for 70 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 Antietam. or to
buy the ground on which stand two
simple little monuments thar were
set up ON particularly tragic parts
OF the batiieneids BY Union troops in
1885. The proposal that the Bull Run
battlefelds should be held by the ma
tion as battlefield park has been
urged by organizations Of Union and
Confederate veterans and by many
other pafrioiic associations. but there
has always been sufficient Indifference
OF hostility on the part Of congress
to thwart the plan.
First Battle OF Manassas.
II is about - miles from Washington
by wagon road 60 the eastern edge
of the bloody zone Of the battlefield
of the first Bull Run. 2r the first
battle of Manassas. 1'hal Is abOat
the distance 10 the picturesque Old
red stone bridge which spans the his
toric creek. II Id this old Bull nun
stone bridge that the Washington 10
wnrrenton turnpike leads. Along the
banks OF the stream. AT the bridge and
below and above II. begun the fight
Ing on Sunday morning. July n. 1851,
which developed into the battle. The
west. with the land rising gradually
to ridge on each side Of II. This Is
the land that WAS wet With the blood
OF men and sprinkled with eorpses.
Two or three old houses can be seen
on these rising slopes. A mile Of
travel westward from the bridge brings
you 10 crossroads II Is the juno
tion Of the Wnrrenton pike and a dirt |
road which leads from the Potomac |
river ard The town Of Dumfries 70 /
Leesburg and the mountains OF the |
west. In the northeast angle OF Gle ]
roads, md close beside them. Is an
Old stone house. In the annals OF the I
Civil wsr that old house Is denomiDai- I
"a -tbe stone house The other 4
battlefield houses. are named for their
owners. bat this little house Is often
nentioaed merely rs the stone house.
n mlghf have been without n tenant
n the time OF the battle. or being
stone house. aud very conspicuous In
he battle zone. the soldiers thought
hat stone house wss the most NJ
ing name to call II.
Bloody Fighting Ground.
On the other side of the road and
m = side level beyond the crest
4 the slope Is gray frame house
With q few broken locust trees around
{. That Is the Henry house. which
fssds on the Henry farm The siope
rom the pike W To- that hou~e and
he Cat field around Il WIS the sceiIe
4 the principal collision between the
lnson aud Confederate Torres Ia the
Irst battle % Bull Run. and Il was
lso fiesfing ETpund In The Second bat
lie. something more than yenf later.
~ hioosiiesa and m0sf death biiehfed
cid II the second battle being On the
began farm about mile 10 a mile
nd haif west
The main Tine n the Confederate
rs On the Herry farm In tie n~hf-
" 81 1851 and II WIS the farihesi
DIN, of the Cnlon advance % fhel-
arch westward from The stone > 're
I'd south from sudiey spy