Military Monday: 45 Years After

Free Lance (Fredericksburg, VA)
17 March 1910

45 YEARS AFTER

Three companies of Mosby's men, under Capt. Baylor, were engaged in a fight in Fairfax, near Reynolds' Cross Roads, two days after Lee's surrender. In this fight were W. B. Lynn, W. N. Tansill, and E. D. Cole.  After the fight was over Messrs. Tansill and Cole were missing and Lynn reported both of them killed or captured.  On Saturday, 45 years afterward, Lynn wrote here and obtained the signatures of Cole and Tansill to his application for a Confederate Pension.

We knew Mr. Tansill was a good sleeper, but we did not know he had ever been reported as gone to his long sleep.

Ben Lomond: Opening of the Pringle House Hospital Exhibit

21 May 2011 - 22 May 2011
10am-3pm

Ben Lomond Historic Site
10321 Sudley Manor Road
Manassas,VA

Admission: Free

Join us as we re-open the newly refurbished Ben Lomond Historic Site as the Pringle Hospital. The house has undergone a transformation back to July of 1861 when it became a Confederate hospital after the battle of First Manassas. The new exhibits will chronicle the hectic and traumatic experiences of the medical staff, soldiers, and civilians who occupied the hospital.

Program will include living historians, slave life interpretation, medical demonstrations, original medical displays, and hands-on educational tent. Ribbon-cutting ceremony begins at 10:00 a.m.

Brentsville Civil War Weekend

Saturday was a beautiful Spring day to spend at Brentsville Courthouse Historic Center.  The weather cooperated with sun and warm winds, making it a comfortable day for both spectators and reenactors/performers.  Brentsville was the first stage in the official opening ceremonies for the new exhibit at the Manassas Museum, They Rode from Brentsville: Co. A, 4th VA Cavalry.

The Brentsville Courthouse, School, and Jail were open to the public, with ordinance demonstrations (artillery), period musicians, a Civil War encampment, and a reenactment of the Prince William County's debate whether to join Richmond in seceding from the Union.  Possibly the highlight of the day was the appearance of Co. H, 4th VA Cavalry (The Black Horse Troop), who treated the crowd to a number of maneuvers as well as making themselves (and their mounts) available for questions.  The Black Horse Troop later rode from Brentsville to the Manassas Museum to portray Co. A in the exhibit opening.

Most of the men in Co. A were from Brentsville and Independent Hill in the middle of Prince William County.