. Highways and byways of the South. ess mixed with the red road may have been fairly good in that long-gonesummer when the Federal troopers marched out on itfrom Washington ; but, if so, I should judge that duringthe battle the cannon-balls and bursting shells had shotit all to pieces and that it had never been repairedsince — yet it is an important highway. I saw a huck-sters team toiling over it going to the capital, thirtymiles distant. The wagon was a big covered cartloaded with crates of live fowls, boxes of eggs, andother produce. It was drawn by four horses andcame twenty miles
. Highways and byways of the South. ess mixed with the red road may have been fairly good in that long-gonesummer when the Federal troopers marched out on itfrom Washington ; but, if so, I should judge that duringthe battle the cannon-balls and bursting shells had shotit all to pieces and that it had never been repairedsince — yet it is an important highway. I saw a huck-sters team toiling over it going to the capital, thirtymiles distant. The wagon was a big covered cartloaded with crates of live fowls, boxes of eggs, andother produce. It was drawn by four horses andcame twenty miles or more from Rappahannock County,a county without railroads. How it did sway and jar!I pitied the chickens, and fancied the eggs must becomeomelets by the time they reached the journeys end. I think many casual students of history have theimpression that the battle-field took its name from the The Battle-field of Bull Run 231 disorderly haste with which the Northern soldiersdeparted after the fight, but in reality the name comes. A Hucksters Team on the Way to Washington from that of a mild, muddy little river near which theengagement was fought. At the beginning of the con-flict the Confederate lines extended along the westernbranch of Bull Run for seven miles. The left flankwas in the vicinity of a stone bridge on the WarrentonPike, and there, soon after sunrise, on a scorching Julyday of 1861, the battle opened. No very vigorousattempt was made, however, to force a passage of thestream at this point, and the main body of Federalsmade a long detour and crossed unopposed. Whenthese troops arrived on the field the struggle began in 232 Highways and Byways of the South earnest and the Confederates were forced back forabout a mile across a shallow valley. But on the farside of the valley they formed along the crest of a slope,and the Union troops assailed them in vain. Lookat Jacksons brigade ! said the Southern General Beein the crisis of the battle, pointing to the troops th
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