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| The Pearson House depicted in the 1940s |
Editor's note: This post comes to us courtesy of Lee Pearson of Manassas, VA. It is a vignette about his childhood home and a painting he did from memories of living there in the 1940s. Lee descends from Baldwin through his son Wormerly (Judith Creel line). In a future post we will examine his line in greater detail when we feature a significant heirloom in his possession..
Nestled among the honeysuckle lies the Pearson House, one of four structures that escaped the rapture of the Northern armies during the Civil War.
Passing is a steam locomotive the likes of which would have carried Southern soldiers and horses rushing from the Shenandoah Valley to be in the Great Battle of Bull Run/Manassas on July 21, 1861. The first time in history of the world soldiers and horses were delivered to battle by train/railroad.
Behind this house is St. Paul’s Church on Fayette Street. With the doors wide open on that very hot day. Church services were in progress during which time cannon were heard by the congregation, echoing from battle in Manassas, but would not have been heard by the troops on their mission due to the iron clatter and steam from the locomotive.
Undoubtedly, many would have glanced at this house on passing that day, but with little thought of it at this time, as their concerns were of their fate minutes away in battle.
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