Just eight
weeks after Confederate General Robert E Lee surrendered to Union General
Ulysses S Grant, Lieutenant James M McCallum of the 16th
Massachusetts Battery received orders to oversee the building of a
monument. He oversaw soldiers from the 5th
Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery in the building of two monuments on the Bull Run
battlefield. The monument located on
Henry Hill would be twenty feet tall, topped with a two hundred pound shell. There are pedestals on each corner which are
also topped with shells. It is built
from local sandstone, and took the men just four days to construct the
monument.
Union
General Samuel P Heintzelman, Quartermaster General Montgomery Meigs and Major
General Orlando B Wilcox attended the dedication of the monument held on June
11th 1865. There were speeches
given by chaplains from Illinois and Kentucky, followed by a firing of
artillery located on Henry Hill. The
inscription on the monument reads, “To the memory of the patriots who fell at
Bull Run, July 21st, 1861.”
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