n as Payne's Church; the church near the Fairfax C.
H.)

November 28, 1768:

At a Vestry held for Truro Parish November 28, 1768, at which Geo.
Washington was present, it was ordered: That Geo. Washington, Esq.,
pay to Alex. Henderson the sum of AL. 8, being the balance of AL 9 14
s., 6 p., received from Maj. Chas. Broadwater for a deficiency on
the Falls Church.

February 24, 1784:

At a Vestry held for Truro Parish at Colchester, the 22nd day of
February, 1784, John Gibson, gent., is elected for a member of this
Parish in the room of his Excellency General Washington, who has
signified his resignation in a letter to Dan'l McCarty, esq.

[Illustration: The Old Church from a war-time Photograph]

Falls Church in the Civil War.

In May, 1861, the Union troops moved into Virginia and occupied
Arlington Heights and Alexandria. On June 1 an engagement at Fairfax
Court House between a company of Union cavalry and Confederate troops
resulted in the loss of six Union and twenty Confederate soldiers. The
Union forces under General McDowell occupied the town of Fairfax about
the middle of July, inaugurating the first Bull Run Campaign. The battle
of Bull Run was fought July 21, 1861.

After the first battle of Bull Run, a systematic plan for the defense of
the National Capital began to take shape. At that time the commanding
heights four miles west of Alexandria and six miles from Washington were
occupied by the Confederates, Falls Church being the headquarters of
General Longstreet.

In October, 1861, the hills were again taken possession of by the Union
troops. The system of works for the defense of Washington on the south
began with Fort Willard below Alexandria, and terminated with Fort Smith
opposite Georgetown, comprising in all twenty-nine forts and eleven
supporting batteries, besides Forts Ethan Allen and Marcy at the
Virginia end of Chain Bridge, with their five batteries of field guns.

[Illustration: Mr. Charles A. Marshall]

Falls Church was the most advanced post of General McDowell's corps,
when on August 3, 1861, a correspondent of Harper's Weekly writing from
here to that paper described the old Church as it appeared at the
beginning of the Civil war as follows:

"On this page we illustrate Fall's Church, Fairfax County, Virginia,
from a sketch by our special artist with General McDowell's 'corps
d'armee.' This is the most advance