Remembering the Death of Maj. Sullivan Ballou

Major Sullivan Ballou, 32, of the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment in his Union Army uniform. (U.S. Army Military History Institute)

Thornberry House, picture here, was used as the field hospital during both the first and second battles of Bull Run. It was here that Maj. Ballou had his leg amputated. <a href="http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Bull Runnings</a>

This wooded area is where Ballou's partial remains were found be the Rhode Island recovery team. <a href="http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Bull Runnings</a>

A park ranger stands in the same spot in where the first Battle of Bull Run took place and where Civil War photographer George Barnard took an image of the battle's aftermath. <a target="_blank" href="http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/">Bull Runnings</a>

Another clearer view of where the first Battle of Bull Run took place. <a href="http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Bull Runnings</a>

A disarmed shell from the battle. <a href="http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Bull Runnings</a>

Ballou's final resting place in Swan Point Cemetery in Rhode Island. The last line of his letter, "I wait for you there! Come to me, and lead thither my children," is engraved on his tomb. (Matthew Fatale)