Evening star., 1939-07-16
Mansion Had
Place in Days
OfCivil War
Confederate Hero
To Be Honored
By Monument

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ably good order, recovering most of
munitions, baggage, ETC., thrown
away by those stricken with panic.
Heintzelman's Brigade is coming in
as good order as that in which it
left Alexandria, for instance.
THE Army will again occupy the
positions from which it started out
last week, in and around the in
trenchments and forts constructed
for this city's security on the other
side of the Potomac
In the belief of Gen. Scott, they
are impregnable, and this city is as
secure from the enemy as it was a
fortnight ago, notwithstanding
yesterdays disasters at point % or
80 miles distant from us.
Accidental Panic.
I'VE may not inappropriately add
that at 4 pm. yesterday the victory
was clearly ours. The retreat move
ment is ascertained to have been
caused by an accidental and trifling
panic in one of the regiments. to
which it spread from confusion
among It's own teamSterS.
THE fresh troops under Gen.
Mansfield and those of Gen. Nc
Dowell's reserve not on the engage
ment together make an army quite
as large, we apprehend, as that
under Gen. Med. in yesterdays
engagement.
From sunset last evening up to
this hour they have been steadily
getting into position, as a matter of
precaution, and we have ascertained
that measures have been taken to
concentrate here still another great
army, now scattered at various
points distant, less than "a hours
from us by rail. They will doustless
commence pouring into Washington
within few hours
! According to the most reliable
information received at headquar-
tiers, the enemy made no effort
whatever to pursue our retreating
Army"
Dedicate Monument.
Next Friday, July 81, being the
| 18th anniversary of this engagement,
a monument will be unveiled and
dedicated on the Manassas battle
field to the memory of Brig. Gen,
Bernard E. Bee, who, as he rallied
his men, shouted, There stands
Jackson like stone wall; rally be-
hind the Virginians." or words to
this effect. (For, after all, there are
several versions to this phrase, and
one Is as good as the other, so long
as the meaning is the same)
Unfortunately for Gen. Bee, how
ever, shortly after uttering this IA
nous exclamation, he was mortally
wounded and died soon afterwards
nearby, and his monument, appro-
priately inscribed, will stand where
he stood when he was shot.
The unveiling is to be done by Ann
Rives Evans. president of the Charles
M. Steadman Chapter. Daughters of
the Confederacy. The monument
will be presented by Mrs. Norma
Hardy Britton, president of the
Southern Memorial Association, of
which Mrs. Henry Gordon Clay is
chairman of the Monument Com
mittee, and accepted by Hon. John
w. Rust, president of the Manassas
Battle Field Association. The Mary
Talliaferro Thompson Southern
Memorial Association is sponsoring
the exercises, which will begin at 2
o'clock pm. Hon. j. Rion McKissick,
president of the University of South
Carolina, will deliver the principal
address.
There were few residents of Ma
nassas Junction at the time of the
Civil War. Indeed, it Is said there
were only two farmhouses in sight Of
the junction, one being the Hove
place, situated southeast of what is
now Fairview, avenue, and which has
long since been destroyed. The
other, known as Liberia, the home
of Robert Weir, is now a part of the
Portner estate.
The present Henry house, rebuilt
In this neighborhood in 1870, stands
on part Of the foundation OF the
original building, and to which it is
probably similar. 1t Is particularly
interesting as the place where lived
Mrs. Judith Henry and her daughter
Ellen, prior to, and at the time of
the battle there July q, 1861. Mrs
Henry is buried In the yard of her
old home, and the inscription on her
tombstone tells the story of her
tragic death. It reads:
"The grave of our dear mother
Mrs. Judith Henry, killed near this
spot by the explosion of a shell in
her dwelling during the battle Of the
21st Of July, 1861. She was the
daughter of Landon Carter, ST..
and was born within a mile of this
place. Her husband was DR.. Isaac
Henry, surgeon in the United State.
Navy on board the frigate Constella.
ton. commanded by Commodore
Truxtun, one Of the six captains in
the organization of the Navy, 1894.
"Our mother through her long life
IS years Of which were spent at this
place. was greatly loved anc
esteemed for her kind, gentle anc
Christian spirit"