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(7-02) 7th
Georgia Marker near the Henry House |
(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 |
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(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 |
(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 |
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(5-04)
2nd Manassas Tour Stop 2 (Stone House). Photo by Brian Duckworth |
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2nd Manassas Tour Stop 2 (Stone House). Photo by Brian Duckworth |
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(5-04) 2nd Manassas Tour Stop 2
(Stone House). Photo by Brian Duckworth |
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Enlarge Stone House Photo by George Petropol, Manassas, VA |
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