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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PII_groveton-monument_Gainesville-VA.html
Like its companion monument on Henry Hill, this obelisk was constructed by Union soldiers at the close of the Civil War. It honors the Federal dead of the Second Battle of Manassas. The monument was dedicated on June 11, 1865. Souvenir hunters lat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NUJ_archeology-at-brawner-farm_Gainesville-VA.html
Once the scene of bloody combat, Brawner Farm sits today in a quiet corner of Manassas Battlefield. Archeologists have conducted multiple investigations of the property, which have uncovered the site of several structures and unearthed thousands o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NN8_simon-kentons-birthplace_Gainesville-VA.html
Near Hopewell Gap, five miles west, Simon Kenton was born, 1755. Leaving home in 1771, he became an associate of Daniel Boone and George Rogers Clark in Indian fighting. He won fame as a scout and as one of the founders of Kentucky. Kenton died in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13ZO_battery-heights_Gainesville-VA.html
As General Rufus King's Union division marched eastward along the Warrenton Turnpike (U.S. Route 29 today), they came under fire from Confederate artillery on the distant ridge. Captain Joseph Campbell's Battery B, 4th U.S. Artillery wheeled off t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13YT_shooting-gallery_Gainesville-VA.html
On the morning of August 30, 1862, Confederate Col. Stephen D. Lee deployed 18 guns from his artillery battalion along this commanding ridge. Additional cannon, under Maj. Lindsey M. Shumaker, unlimbered to his left. The artillery linked the two w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13XA_a-stand-up-fight_Gainesville-VA.html
Union Brig. Gen. John Gibbon advanced through the woods with his men intent on driving off the Confederate artillery. Discovering Stonewall Jackson's infantry in force and "...finding that the regiment had become badly involved I ordered the rest …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13X0_the-battle-begins_Gainesville-VA.html
Late on the afternoon of August 28, Brig. Gen. Rufus King's division proceeded east towards Centreville. They marched in search of the elusive "Stonewall" Jackson, who was operating behind Union lines with half the Confederate army. As the head of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13WX_battle-of-buckland-mills_Gainesville-VA.html
On October 19, 1863, 12,000 Confederate and Union cavalry clashed at Buckland. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, screening the Confederate withdrawal following the Battle of Bristoe Station, blocked the advance of Union Gen. H. Judson Kilpatrick's cavalry divis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUWT_jackson-opens-fire_Gainesville-VA.html
"My command was advanced...until it reached a commanding position near Brawner's house. By this time it was sunset; but as [the Union] column appeared to be moving by, with its flank exposed, I determined to attack at once."
Observing a column …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQU5_the-macrae-school_Gainesville-VA.html
Between 1914 and 1953, African-American children of the surrounding area attended a two-room schoolhouse a short distance east of here along the Warrenton Turnpike. This was the final location for the Macrae School, originally established in 1870 …