Evening star., 1939-07-22
Bee Monument
Is Unveiled
Al Manassas
Veteran Of Bottle
Takes Part in
Dedication Exercises
Special pispat tch to The Star.

Dedication Exercises.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
MANASSAS BATTLEFIELD, Va,
July 22.-On the spot where Brig.
Gen. Barnard Elliott Bee rallied his
forces with the now immortal words:
There stands Jackson like a stone
WALL and was fatally wounded a
few moments later, a monument to
his memory was unveiled here yes
terday.
Best known for nicknaming Jack
son, Gen. Bee is also credited with
holding the Confederate volunteers
together in the face of whitening
fire by the well-trained Union SOL
diers until Gen. Jackson arrived.
After that, what appeared to be al
most certain defeat for the Con-
federate forces was turned into one
OF the greatest routs Of the entire
War Between the States for the
Northern Army and carried the
Southern forces well toward WASH
ington.
witnessing the exercises yesterday,
on a battlefield that remains almost
as 1t was 78 years ago, were two
veterans Of the fast-disappearing
ranks of the Confederacy, one of
whom, Robert B. Gushing of Prince
William County, took part in the
battle. The other veteran, Peter B.
Smith, also of Prince William
County, served in the Confederate
Army, but did not participate in that
battle.
Rust Describes Battle.
State Senator John w. Rust of
Fairfax, who has headed the Ma
nassas Battlefield Confederate Park
Association for 10 years, presided,
and gave detailed description of
the battle. Senator Rust COM
mented on the fact the battlefield
has changed but little throughout
the years. The old Henry house,
where many wounded from both
armies were carried during the
course of the war, is still standing.
AS sidelight on the battle, where
Gen. Bee took command after Gen.
F. H. Barlow had been killed earlier
in the day, Senator Rust said it took
Gen. Mcdowell three days to get
his Union troops from Alexandria to
| Centreville, but he covered the dis
tance back in one night when the
rout started.
The principal address of the after
noon was given by Col. j. Rion
McKissick. president of the Univer-
sity of South Carolina. who de-
clared Bee was all his State could
ask OF a gentleman, soldier and
patriot"
Gen. Bee, Col. McKissick said,
formerly served in the United
States Army. but at the beginning
OF the war between the States he
resigned and cast his lot with the
Confederacy, quickly rising from a
major of infantry to a brigadier
general, the rank he held when
killed
Served in Mexican War.
He asserted Gen. Bee showed out
standing ability as an officer, and
had served gallantly in the Mexican
War. At the time he was fatally
wounded, Bee was holding a sword
given him by South Carolina for
distinguished service in the Mexican
War, II years before.
Recounting the stirring events Of
July 81, 1861, Col McKissick de-
clared that just as the cause of the
Southern Army seemed lost, Gen.
Jackson arrived on the battlefield
with reinforcements, and Gen. Bee.
rallying his men for a fresh attack
cried, Form, form, there stands
jackson like stonewall. Rally be-
hind the Virginians." AS the second
charge started, Gen. Bee fell. and
the following day he died at a cabin
in the field which he had been using
as headquarters.
Gen. Bee is buried at Pendleton.
S. c.
Mrs. Elizabeth Fred. first presi-
dent of the Southern Memorial As
sociation, gave short history of the
Confederate Flag, after which Miss
Annie Rives Evans, president of the
Charles M. Steadman Chapter,
Children of the Confederacy. un-
yelled the monument. Mrs. Norma
Hardy Britton, president of the
Mary Taliaferro Thompson South
ern Memorial Association of WASH
ington, presented the monument to
the Battlefield Association, and Sen
ator Rust accepted it.
Among the guests introduced in
cluded Gen. Bees great-nephew and
namesake, Barnard Elliott Bee of
South Carolina; Mrs. McKissick and
John S. Barbour of Fairfax
Others taking part on the pro-
gram included DR.. Warren Stuart,
cousin of Gen. j. E. B. Stuart, who
pronounced the invocation, and Mrs.
Edward Campbell Shields, past
president of the Southern Memorial
Association, who gave a recitation.
Music was provided by the Elks'
Boys Band of Washington.
The committee in charge of ar
rangements included Mrs. Henry G.
Clay, chairman; Mrs. Wallace
Streater, treasurer; Mrs. Walter Lee
Phares and Mrs. Frank Morrison.
who organized the Mary Taliaferro
Thompson Southern Memorial As
sociation in 1925, in her home.
The marker to Gen. Bee stands
short distance from the spot where
a $25 900 statue to Gen. Jackson will
shortly be raised. an appropriation
having been made by the General
Assembly of Virginia at its last ses-