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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13YR_confederate-counterattack_Manassas-VA.html
Generals Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet both concluded the moment had arrived to launch a massive Confederate offensive at Second Manassas. Longstreet's wing of the army - nearly 30,000 troops - stood primed to sweep forward and sever the Unio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13YO_the-very-vortex-of-hell_Manassas-VA.html
From their position atop this ridge, the soldiers of the 5th New York Infantry listened to the crash of battle. It appeared the regiment had escaped combat that day. Most of the fighting raged one mile to the north near Deep Cut. Around 4 p.m. an …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13YM_attack-at-deep-cut_Manassas-VA.html
Full-throated cheers greeted the order to attack. More than 6,000 Union soldiers under General Fitz John Porter poured across the road into the fields of Lucinda Dogan's farm. As the blue-clad lines traversed the open ground, a massive concentrati…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13YJ_on-the-skirmish-line_Manassas-VA.html
Thirty minutes before the main assault, Colonel Hiram Berdan's 1st U.S. Sharpshooters clambered over the fence along the Groveton-Sudley Road and dashed into the open pasture. The skilled marksmen kept up a steady fire with their breech-loading Sh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13XB_sudley-church_Manassas-VA.html
People were on their way to worship when thousands of Federal soldiers suddenly appeared marching south on Sudley Road. Within minutes the sound of gunfire came from the direction of Matthews Hill. As wounded men stumbled back behind the lines, Fe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13K1_the-union-fifth-corps-at-dawkins-branch_Manassas-VA.html
On the morning of August 29, 1862, the Union Fifth Corps, nearly 10,000 troops under Major General Fitz John Porter, advanced from Manassas Junction along this road under orders from Major General John Pope to march towards Gainesville and cut off…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13FJ_texas_Manassas-VA.html
Remembers the valor and devotion of her soldiers who participated in the battle of Second Manassas, Virginia - August 28-30, 1862.
On this field Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia won the decisive battle of the Northern …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13CE_lucinda-dogan-house_Manassas-VA.html
This small frame house stands as the only surviving original structure of the crossroad village of Groveton. Widow Lucinda Dogan and her five young children moved here shortly after their residence, "Peach Grove," burned in 1860. The family joined…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU0I_the-marines-of-61_Manassas-VA.html
To support the advance into Virginia, the Navy Department detailed a battalion of U.S. Marines for temporary field service with Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell's Union army. The Marine Commandant, Col. John Harris, expressed misgivings about the inexper…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT2I_ben-lomond-farm_Manassas-VA.html
The Federal style stone, "Manor" house and its accessory buildings are the visible reminders of Ben Lomond Farm, which was begun in about 1830 by Benjamin Tasker Chinn, the grandson of Robert "Councillor" Carter. Ben Lomond is one of the few remai…