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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM141U_first-contact_Manassas-VA.html
The head of General Irvin McDowell's flanking column reached Matthews Hill shortly after 10 a.m. Progress had been slow. The rookie soldiers frequently broke ranks to rest. Some stopped to pick blackberries. More than 13,000 Union troops lagged be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13ZT_unfinished-railroad_Manassas-VA.html
During the 1850s, two local railroads - the Orange & Alexandria and the Manassas Gap - met at Manassas Junction. In order to reach commercial markets near Washington, the Manassas Gap Railroad signed an agreement with its rival to use its tracks f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13ZQ_groveton-confederate-cemetery_Manassas-VA.html
Neither side had anticipated the war's cost in blood. After the fighting at Manassas, burial details dug shallow graves where soldiers had fallen. There was little time for ceremony. Crude wooden headboards sometimes noted the soldier's name and r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13YV_hazel-plain_Manassas-VA.html
In 1860, Benjamin Chinn and his family lived here in a two-and-a-half story frame farmhouse. Known as "Hazel Plain," the modest plantation comprised several hundred acres. The property was typical of those in Prince William County, yielding wheat,…
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…