Bui. 984, U. S. Dep 
Plate VIII. 
Fig. I —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 
communitv 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. 
