The stone observatory on the Bloody lane is now finished and ready for visitors. The view from this point alone is worth a visit to the famous Bloody lane as you can take in the entire right to the left nearly four miles. There will be, when all planted, nearly four hundred markers, giving one a good idea of the entire battle field with the advantage of the good roads. Every body ought to visit it and make a study of this great battle.
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For the Hillsborough Recorder. Melville, Aug. 1st. Mr. Hearte – Dear Sir: – I had intended writing you a lengthy account of the fight at Manassas, but was prevented by sickness from so doing. Two days previous to the fight I was sent off by Col. Fisher as Quarter-master, and for that reason did not […]
Sixth Regiment N. C. State Troops. – For the gratification of those who have friends in Capt. Freeland’s Company, we are permitted to publish and extract of his letter to his wife. Manassas Junction, July 23d, 1861. My Dear Julia: – I am yet alive and well, and so only through the great mercies of […]
Camp Bee, 4 Miles N. E. Manassas Junction, Va., July 28, 1861 Gentlemen: – I know you would like to hear from us, and as I have a leisure moment now, and a chance to send a letter, (for we have no mails,) I drop you this scroll. We of the Sixth N. C. State […]
Manassas Junction, Va. July 21, 1861. To the Editor of the Standard; – In my last I told you it was probable that we would march on Martinsburg. We were ordered to fill up our canteens and haversacks, which we did. We started about four o’clock, leaving our baggage. Anxiously we gazed at the blue mountains […]
Correspondence of the Raleigh Standard. ————— Camp Bee, Near Manassa Junction, Va July 28, 1861. Mr. Editor: – After incredible toil and hardships, and sleeping on the ground for a week, we have at last received our tents and baggage, and are now snugly quartered. There is no news of much importance; we are simply […]
The following feeling and well deserved tributes to the memory of Jaob Horace Seely, a brave and noble soldier, written by W. S. H. Baylor, Major of the 5th Virginia Regiment, and James H. Waters, Captain of the West Augusta Guards, will cause a thrill of sorrow to fill the hearts of all who knew […]
The following feeling and well deserved tributes to the memory of Jaob Horace Seely, a brave and noble soldier, written by W. S. H. Baylor, Major of the 5th Virginia Regiment, and James H. Waters, Captain of the West Augusta Guards, will cause a thrill of sorrow to fill the hearts of all who knew […]
Death of Col.* William H. Hardy. Our entire community was painfully excited on Saturday last, at the announcement of the death of the gallant and most estimable young man whose name stands at the head of this article. He was the son of our esteemed townsman, Dr. J. F. E. Gardy, and was acting as […]
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