Dogwood Tree and Cannon

First Manassas

Dogwood Tree and Cannon

A beautiful Spring day at the Manassas National Battlefield Park, with buttercups dotting the field and a large blooming dogwood providing a backdrop to a deadly weapon of war.

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Lieutenant Elisha Franklin Paxton of the 5th Virginia Infantry: “ My Darling: We spent Sunday last in the sacred work of achieving our nationality and independence.  The work was nobly done, and it was the happiest day of my life, our wedding day not excepted.  I think the fight is over forever. I received a ball through my shirt sleeves, slightly bruising my arm, and others, whistling “Yankee Doodle” around my head, made fourteen holes through the flag which I carried in the hottest of the fight. It is a miracle I escaped with my life, so many falling dead around me.  Buried two of our comrades on the field.  God bless my country, my wife and my little ones. Love, Frank” -- Letter from Paxton to his wife, two days after the battle, in The Civil War Letters of General Frank “Bull” Paxton, C.S.A, edited by John Gallatin Paxton, pages 11-12

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