| Show RELIC BELIC OF DULL DULI RUX AW A small monument erected on the spot at the time or of the battle this rude little monument stands on the bloodiest section of the null bull run battlefields about one thousand yards northwest of the croiss crossroads roads nt at groveton the site of the monument la Is by the bank bankside elde of the old railroad cut 11 before the civil war a railroad was projected to run from the manassas gap cap railroad at gains ville va northeast to leesburg cras crossing slog bull run nua at sudley budley springs the railroad was graded with a succession of cuts and fills from to sudley a distance of about three miles no ties or ralls rails had bad been laid when at the outbreak of the war work stopped in the second battle of bull atun jackson took ap Ms his along alone the line of railroad U back ack of groveton the line ran through a long ions low hill and this cut was in the center of the confederate federate line here the effort to dislodge backson wan most stubborn and thousands of union gold soldiers lers fell in the quill attempt after Appo mator when irbon the union army wn waa on oil the march back to wt beng ton many of thi the troops returned by way of the old turnpike which runs tro uh these bloody fields the bons or of the union soldiers who fell thore there bad not nt at that time been mahumed mitt baul taken to ar IL agton the paused long enough to erect and dedicate this monument it stands in the woods wooda la in an place and very tery few persons peron ter ault vult it |
