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INCIDENTS OF THE FIRST BULL RUN.

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THE STONE HOUSEON THE WARRENTON TURNPIKE.

FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN MARCH, 1862.

The stream in the foreground is Young’s Branch.The Sudley road crosses a little to the left ofthe picture. See map, page 201.

McDowell, and, asking me to accompany him, rode rapidly past the Lewishouse, across the hollow beyond it, and up the next hill through the pines,emerging on the summit immediately east of the Henry house. As the beau-tiful open landscape in front burst upon his vision, he exclaimed with enthu-siasm : u Here is the battle-field, and we are in for it! Bring up your guns asquickly as possible, and I’ll look round for a good position.”

In less than twenty minutes I and my battery had passed the Lewis house,when I discovered Bee coming out of the pines. He stopped, and, placing hiscap on his s word-point, waved it almost frantically as a signal to hurry for-ward. We went at a gallop, and were guided to a depression in the groundabout one hundred yards to the north-east of the Henry house, where weunlimbered. With his keen military eye, General Bee had chosen the bestpossible position for a battery on all that field. We were almost under coverby reason of a slight swell in the ground immediately in our front, and notfifty feet away. Our shot passed not six inches above the surface of theground on this “ swell,” and the recoil ran the guns back to still lower ground,where as we loaded only the heads of my men were visible to the enemy.

We went into position none too soon; for, by the time we had unlimbered,Captain Ricketts, appearing on the crest of the opposite hill, came beautifullyand gallantly into battery at a gallop, a short distance from the Matthews