Show TO MAKE BULL RUN battlefield PARK will be kept as memorial to soldiers who died in conflicts long cong been strong that thai S neof early clash of arms should be preserved close to national capital bull run rull Is to be made a ellid park us as a memorial to tile ho avilo atho fought on oil that the lee lilg hway being developed dev eloped as one of the grout great east cast and west automobile ae roads passes through the fields that highway taking unto itself rb one oe its sections tile the old warrenton civil war roads of virginia virgenia efforts lime have been made for 20 year ears 8 to have tile take over OUT the HIP fighting ground of hull bull run kun anti and pare caie for it after tile the manner of the fields of gettysburg Gett isburg bild and antietam or to buy the ground on oil which stand two simple little monuments that were set up on particularly tragic parts of the battlefields by union troops in ili 1865 tito the proposal eliat the dull bull run battlefields be by nation ua as a battlefield park paik has been urged by organizations of union and confederate Conle veterans and by I 1 many other patrio patriotic tc ab social luns but there has always been sufficient indifference rence or hostility on tile part of congress to thwart alie plan fleet first battle of Man manassas asias it Is about 25 miles from washington oin by wagon agon road to the rustem edge of 0 the bloody zone of the biRtle field 0 of the first bull run dr the first battle of manassas that la Is about the distance dis tunce to the picturesque old red stone bridge which spans pans tile thu historic creek it to la this old did n dull u I 1 I 1 tun stone bridge that the washington to warrenton turnpike leads along tiro tile banks of the stream at the bridge and below and above aboe it began the fighting on sunday morning wo n tin g 0 july 21 1 86 1 which into tale battle the pike after crossing tile the bridge west est with the land rising gradually to a ridge on each side rf of it this Is the land that ua waa wet et with ti the I 1 e blood of men and sprinkled with corpses two or three old houses can call be seen on these rising slopes A mile of travel westward front the bridge brings you to a crossroads it Is the june hun of the WarrEnt fon and a dirt road which leads from tho the Voton fac rayer alyer and tile the town tonn of dumfries to leesburg find and the mountains of the west in the tl northeast tingle angle of cie ce rondi road und and close besida them Is an old stone house in III the annals of the civil war that old house la Is denominated the itlie stone house thu other battlefield houses nip are named for their owners but this little house Is often as nathe the stone bouso it I 1 might have been a tenant enaut at the I 1 tine lime of rf the latti hat til or bring being a stone hunse house aua very deiy conspicuous in the bi battle little zone tho sol soldiers illers thought thouR lit that stone almu housea ael was tile most fitting nume name boratt it bloody flu alting ground on the other side of the road and on a ilde clevel in el leid tile the crest of the slope q a gray fearne house ith a fi drw w brohen itic locust st trees around it that Is the henry house etch stands on DIT the henry lot littria tria the slope lot bioni om 11 ll e alk allie e till 1 l to jo abut house and tile lie ili lit held ell aroud it vas ns lie of the he principal collision between union ant confederate forces in ili the clr arst gt hallib of null etim aad it was na also limiting fighting ground lit in tic the se entill batile something more a year inter the ble oiliest tipa most riet of if the ilie second gintle beling being on oil tile doglii farm nebout a ille to a mile lulls end a talf hi if west cst tile the line tin of lite lie Conrede intes wis was on dihe IK henry form farm in ili the lie fight ins ing of and it wa ans the fr host point of the unton union ln their barcli atward tt ward hn atone broft berdg I 1 itald south from sudley springs it wils on oil that hut hed fled that the union lines wavered anke and began the he retreat soon developed into panic ant and a 11 rout roulf it was on oil that held field that the liob B rIquet stonewall was first ali plied piled to general jackson very early after tile the fighting which begun began nt at the lie batone bridge find between pike and sudley had developed to the intensity and extent of a battle a union shell from alc ettia regular battery pierced the henry house housa tin and killed its owner sirs judith henry to lo tier bej bc she was old and bedridden at the time soon after that tile house was in blaines ll fl amei aines and its de hastened by mare cannon shot and shell mrs henry la 19 burled in the family lir graveyard aveyard with alian many of her kin a few yards behind tile house close to their tombstones tombstone 3 one o might t almost say among them ithem stands n little brown redi red etolie antone monument built by soldiers and dedicated it a few days after the grand ye review r t washington tito set tip on and around the monument mci aument shells and cannon balls which they picked up tip on oil the fields for then a part of the country was still uttered littered with the debris of bat tie and the country pitted with sunken graves which had been very shallow in the many places tile the skulls and skeletons of for the most moat part men who had been killed in the lie greater and heavier fighting of 1802 1832 were strewn over the ground along the warrenton ton pike on the warrenton pike one mile west vest of the henry farm Is groveton four foul houses slid oud a shop were there in 1801 and 1862 ilia houses were acio destroyed in the second battle and three of them were ie rebuilt billit after me hie war one of these th ese was tho the dagan house and on the dogan farm farin much of the killing of the battle was wag done groveton was wai jacksons right ind the he t confederate con federate center when long street joined him before the war n railroad called the tb independent railroad was projected to run from froin the manassas Manass ns gap rati rail road at to leesburg Lees the I 1 road was graded hills wire cut through and nud fIll ills over low ground nad and stone cu lverts built over oer the runs rung and larger creeks no ties or ralli rails had been laid and when the war came along till nil work 2 topped stopped it was along this graded way that flint ja jackson ackson formed liis hla line for the second fight the line of the unfinished railroad Is preserved boday toda though the cuts are grown up in woods find and the nils fills tire ore generally overgrown with pines and cedars A particular cut where troops their ammunition mended expended fought with bayonets clubbed muskets ets and even stones Is about a thousand yards north odthe of lie doyan dogan house dead thick on an the field mrs dogan carac came home after fighting ceased and the armies moved on to light fight at dead men lay so s thick over th that atfield bold that you walk without on them they had not been burled men glen had gone about shoveling ng dirt over them ahert they iny in and tte the night before I 1 came cam back with my children to where chero dl titi house stood it rained and the dirt that had been thrown evev these men bio bee been it washed off bly A reporter who inspected the flegl at the close of nf the lie war wrote the following description of it itt prom from alexandrin to tile lie Is rine wide area of desolation Fe laces are utterly swept nu ller cleio lail there it a dilapidated bauso h case bli elters il few squalid once a village of beauly p a gentle slope of n hua anti commanding com a view of for tile valleys for inana miles war swept it and its ruins lie ile about invested Iny ested with 01 bl the saddening influences of per fl 11 i irlie lie first rat bit null atun i 1 i ii distinct instinct ils ly marked with traces donalle iette tier ller the lie shot and nil shell afre strew wil iii the trees splintered mul in ninny many pc prizes the forest looks ns as it if having berr been visited by a terrific sloam 1 tile the lilleg hones of of both are scattered over the retus niu om duay m ay iy find enough elou h td billdt 11 it |