“Imagine looking out your window to discover armed soldiers approaching your house. What if your family had to flee to escape a battle that was raging in your own yard? In the summers of 1861 and 1862, such scenes were all too real for families who lived near Bull Run and the Manassas railroad junction in Virginia.”
--from “Dodging Bullets!”
by Elizabeth Armstrong Hall
© 2005 by Carus Publishing
The Stone House, 1862, one of the many private homes and businesses caught in the crossfires of the First and Second Battles of Manassas (Courtesy, Library of Congress)
