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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM692_71st-new-york-state-militia_Manassas-VA.html
July 21, 186111:00 a.m.
2nd Brigade (Burnside), 2nd Division (Hunter)Army of Northeastern Virginia, USA
71st New York State MilitiaCol. Henry P. Martin"The Alabama 4th, which had long ago expressed, in print, their desire to meet the New Yor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM690_8th-georgia-infantry_Manassas-VA.html
July 21, 186111:00 a.m.
2nd Brigade (Bartow)Army of the Shenandoah (Johnson), CSA
8th Georgia InfantryLt. Col. W.M. Gardner"Away we went straight into the teeth of the murderous fire. We entered a thicket and were within 100 yards of the ene…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM68Z_4th-alabama-infantry_Manassas-VA.html
July 21, 186111:00 a.m.
3rd Brigade (Bee)Army of the Shenandoah (Johnson), CSA
4th Alabama InfantryCol. Egbert J. Jones"Our regiment had scarcely emerged from the timber before a murderous fire was opened on us by the Yankees. Our brave boys…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM671_blocking-the-union-advance_Manassas-VA.html
Knowing they were badly outnumbered, Evans' 900 Confederates stared across this open field, waiting for the enemy to appear over the crest of the hill. Their only hope was to slow the 15,000-man Federal column long enough for reinforcements to arr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5QF_the-rock-fight_Manassas-VA.html
Yankees were pinned down on the far side of the embankment, only ten yards away. After twenty minutes of continuous shooting, Confederates here were running out of ammunition. Frantically, they searched their dead and wounded comrades for cartridg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5PE_outnumbered_Manassas-VA.html
Shot-up Confederate regiments stumbled past, in retreat from Matthews Hill. First along Warrenton Pike, then in Robinson's Lane, Col. Wade Hampton's South Carolinians tried to delay the Union advance. Slowly, with volley after volley of musket fir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5OV_the-fight-for-ricketts-guns_Manassas-VA.html
Shells were exploding overhead as Ricketts' men dueled Stonewall Jackson's artillery, directly across the field. Sharpshooters' bullets thumped into the wooden limber chests. On the rear slope horses were screaming, dying. Suddenly from the far wo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5OK_counterattack_Manassas-VA.html
Dead cannoneers lay in rows between their cannon, dead horses along the back slope; the Union guns were immobilized yet still a magnet for both armies. Up this slope marched the 14th Brooklyn, resplendent in Zouave uniforms. They managed to recapt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5OB_charge-on-griffins-guns_Manassas-VA.html
The Virginians were waiting, tense, here at the wood's edge—their first time under bombardment. Shells from Ricketts' battery exploded in the boughs overhead and plowed up the ground in front. When the two Union cannon rolled into position o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5KM_point-blank-volley_Manassas-VA.html
In clear view of artillerymen here, Confederates lined up at the fence and trees across the open field. The two cannon and supporting infantry could have stopped the Rebels cold, yet the four hundred charging Virginians were able to fire a musket …