BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Manassas Natl Battlefield -- Groveton Conf Cemetery and NY Monuments

VA -- Manassas Natl Battlefield -- Groveton Conf Cemetery and NY Monuments:

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1. MANASG_030720_02.JPG: The building on the right is the Lucinda Dogan Farmhouse (which is a rebuilt structure), representing one of the structures that would have constituted the small burg of Groveton during the battle. Unfortunately, the Park Service doesn't own the area immediately around the house which is why you have some idiot parking his pick-up truck there with a "For Sale" sign on it.
2. MANASG_030720_11.JPG: This is the Groveton Confederate Cemetery. The sign says "Of the 266 soldiers buried here, only two are fully identified. Heavy fire often kept either side from claiming the dead, and after both battles the army had to maneuver quickly. Some of the wounded lay for days in the blistering sun. After the fighting, burial details dug shallow, unmarked mass graves. The process took weeks. Autumn rains soon washed away the thin cover of soil, exposing the remains. In 1866, the United Daughters of the Confederacy established Groveton Cemetery and has these remains reinterred here."
3. MANASG_030720_24.JPG: Several Union monuments are on Chinn Ridge, indicating spots where Union defenders desperately tried to slow down the Confederate onslaught so defensive preparations could be made at Henry Hill. The sign by this marker says, "The 5th NY Infantry thought they had gotten off easy that day. The trees screened them from Confederate artillery fire, and most of the fighting was a mile off to the right near the Deep Cut. Suddenly, they heard heavy musket fire up ahead. Terrified Union skirmishers came running out of the woods, followed by a tremendous crashing of brush and leaves -- the sound of a large army approaching. Unable to see what was coming, but knowing it was going to be very bad, the 5th New York hurried to form a battle line along the crest of this slope. Panicked skirmishers kept getting in the way. By then, thousands of Confederates were at the edge of the trees firing volley after volley. In five minutes, the 5th New York lost nearly 300 killed and wounded out of about 500 men...."
4. MANASG_030720_33.JPG: Another monument on Chinn Ridge, this to the 10th New York Infantry
5. MANASG_030720_34.JPG: Up on the hill at Chinn Ridge is a monument to the 14th New York Infantry Militia. The sign says, "Officers said the Rebels were retreating. Hatch's Division was ordered to pursue. Marching double-quick west on the turnpike, the Federals reached this hill just after sundown. Suddenly, the ridge erupted with fire. In the confusion -- screaming horses, showers of earth and shrapnel -- soldiers lined up in the wrong regiments. In the dying light, New York troops saw movement in the dark woods to the left. Voices shouted, 'Don't fire on us, boys, we are coming to help you!' The Federals held their fire, but then a terrible volley of bullets smacked into them. Muzzle-flashes revealed gray uniforms among the trees."
6. MANASG_030720_44.JPG: In the background, you can see the Groveton Confederate Cemetery
7. MANASG_030720_58.JPG: From Chinn Ridge, you can see the Lucinda Dogan Farmhouse... and the tacky neighbor with the pick-up truck for sale.
8. MANASG_030720_62.JPG: The road is the Warrenton Turnpike, which leads straight back to the Old Stone House and Henry Hill.
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