Bui. 984, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate VIM. 



Fig. 1.— Charcoal Drawing of Major 

 Andrew Jackson Barney, the Farmer- 

 Soldier, Who is Still the War Hero 

 of the Community. 



Major Barney, born on farm No. 87, in Belleville, 

 ■was educated in Union Academy and Union Col- 

 lege, but returned to farming in the Belleville 

 community and became a trustee of the Academy. 

 At the outbreak of the Civil War he led out, as 

 Captain, scores of boys and young men from the 

 Academy and community. In the second battle 

 of Bull Run he was killed. His body was rec- 

 ognized by Stonewell Jackson, who had long 

 been a friend of the Barney family, and sent home 

 to Belleville, where he was buried by his own 

 people with military honors- 



Fig. 2. -Home of Major Barney. Farm No. 69. 



A spot which to the people of the community is more than a farmstead, more than a house and 

 a growing place for crops. 



