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(7-027th Georgia Marker near the Henry House
 
7th Georgia Information Tablet

(7-02) South view of Ricketts' Battery from a few yards west of Henry House. The Manassas National Battlefield Park Visitor Center is in the background

           

(7-02) 2nd Manassas Tour Stop 1 (Battery Heights). 2002 NPS Tour Guide: In the late afternoon of August 28, 1862, Stonewall Jackson ordered his troops to attack a Union column as it marched past on the Warrenton Turnpike in front of the hidden Confederate position north of the road. As the lead elements of Gen. Rufus King's Union division emerged from the woods to the west, Jackson pushed his infantry forward from the distant ridge into this open field. King's troops swung to meet this attack and for one-and-a-half hours the two lines fought resolutely, in some places only 80 yards apart. In that short time this opening struggle of the Second Battle of Manassas inflicted causalities amounting to almost one-third of the 7,000 men engaged
 
Information Tablet (Campbell's Battery B, 4th US Artillery)

 
Panorama of Tour Stop 1 (Battery Heights)

(7-02) 2nd Manassas Tour Stop 2 (Stone House). 2002 NPS Tour Guide: Convinced that Jackson was isolated, Pope ordered his columns to converge upon and attack the Confederates. He was sure he could destroy Jackson before Lee and Longstreet intervened. During the fighting on August 30, Pope made his headquarters directly behind this house. The house served as a field hospital during First and Second Manassas
 
Information Tablet (Stone House - Battlefield Landmark)

     
(5-04) 2nd Manassas Tour Stop 2 (Stone House).
 
Photo by Brian Duckworth
  (5-04) 2nd Manassas Tour Stop 2 (Stone House).
 
Photo by Brian Duckworth
     
(5-04) 2nd Manassas Tour Stop 2 (Stone House).
 
Photo by Brian Duckworth
  (4-12) Enlarge Stone House
 
Photo by George Petropol, Manassas, VA

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