Comments on: The Battle Monument http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/the-battle-monument/ A Journal of the Digitization of a Civil War Battle Tue, 14 May 2013 19:21:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Manassas NBP 11/5/2010: Sudley Springs, Sudley Road, Thornberry House, Ballou « Bull Runnings http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/the-battle-monument/#comment-17251 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:17:38 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/the-battle-monument/#comment-17251 [...] took us down to the basement of the VC and showed us one of the original 200 lb Parrott shells from the Battle Monument.  It turns out that these shells were live, and not discovered to be so until the monument’s [...]

]]> By: Civil War Times, America’s Civil War, Blue & Gray « Bull Runnings http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/the-battle-monument/#comment-16368 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:03:59 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/the-battle-monument/#comment-16368 [...] Michael Panhorst on the Battle Monuments at Manassas (I wrote about them here). [...]

]]> By: Harry Smeltzer http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/the-battle-monument/#comment-2578 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:30:43 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/the-battle-monument/#comment-2578 Thanks, Ron. I also have letters from a member of the 9th GA, which by all accounts arrived too late for the battle, that are a little ambiguous.

Do you have citation info on this letter? Where is it deposited?

]]> By: Ron Kelley http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/the-battle-monument/#comment-2571 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:26:18 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/the-battle-monument/#comment-2571 Great work on the monument at Manassas…where is this place you refer to as Bull Run? haha, Confederate joke. I am a local historian in Arkansas and reenact with the 1st Arkansas Infantry. I was just at this monument last summer and it is truely a hollowed piece of ground!

I have a Civil War diary entry from a soldier in the 1st Arkansas Infantry from South Arkansas. It has previously been thought that the 1st Arkansas was only being held in reserve, but with the following diary entry, one can deduce that if there were shells bursting over the heads of the Arkansas boys in the rear, I would surely consider them in the battle!
Below is a page from the Reap Letters (Donated and made available by Doyle Taylor)

August 4th, 1861
Camp Magreger (MacGregor)#

Dear Mother
I now take my pen in hand to inform you that I am well at present, hoping theas (these) few lines may find you all well. I hav[e] bin (been) out of camp all trying to find som boddys (somebody’s) watermillian (watermelon) patch and I found one. We march forty miles to (two) weeks ago to Manassas Gap to a battle but it was about over whin (when) we got thair (there). The yankeys (Yankees) threw four bums (bombs) over our heads. One fell about forty yards from our regiment. I saw too (two) of them burst. Tha (they) busted like a cannon firing. We received forty dollars last week a peas (apiece). We hav[e] to pay teenty (twenty) of it for uniforms. I hav[e] not any thing to [w]rite. I will come to a close.

You must not [w]rite a short letter because I do. [W]rite a;; the news you hav[e] [w]rite as soon as this comes to hand. Tell Bill to [w]rite me. I hav[e] not got the time that he has to [w]rite.

S.H. Reap to his dear mother

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