BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Manassas Natl Battlefield -- Henry, Matthews, Buck Hills

VA -- Manassas Natl Battlefield -- Henry, Matthews, Buck Hills:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MANASH_070506_009.JPG: The cannons are located where Jackson's men stood during the battle. It was back here, not where the Jackson statue is, that his presence inspired Bernard Bee's immortal quote about the stone wall.
2. MANASH_070506_046.JPG: Francis Bartow marker
3. MANASH_070506_074.JPG: Note that you can read the manufacturing date (1861) on the pivot of the barrel.
4. MANASH_070506_103.JPG: Robinson House site
5. MANASH_070506_112.JPG: Robinson House: The home of James Robinson -- a freed slave -- stood here at the time of the battle. That morning hundreds of Confederates streamed through the yard as they retreated from the Union attach. Surprisingly, the property suffered little damage in the first battle, but Union troops sacked the house and fields during Second Manassas. For these damages Congress awarded Robinson $1,249 by Private Act of March 3, 1873. Robinson House, as it appeared in 1861. The present structure is not original, though a section of it dates to about 1888. First Battle of Manassas
6. MANASH_070506_122.JPG: Robinson's Lane
7. MANASH_070506_139.JPG: Atop the hill is the J. Dogan House.
8. MANASH_070506_142.JPG: This gives you some idea of what the traffic is like around the Stone House where US 29 (Lee Highway) and Route 234 (Sudley Road) intersect. Matthews Hill is on the right behind the Stone House. 15,000 Federals were advancing on Henry Hill from this direction in the morning of First Manassas.
9. MANASH_070506_158.JPG: Henry House (post-war version)
10. MANASH_070506_180.JPG: Union memorial
11. MANASH_070506_189.JPG: Honoring The Dead: Union soldiers built Henry Hill Monument to commemorate those who died at First Bull Run (Manassas). For many Civil War veterans, this had been their first battle. Intense memories drew both Union and Confederate soldiers back to this scene years after the war.
12. MANASH_070506_196.JPG: Invaded Farmland: The morning of the battle was hot and still. Except for a few details, the scene mirrored today's pastoral landscape. Fields lay fallow, overgrown with tall grass. Around the Henry House grew rose bushes and a small peach orchard. Eight-five-year-old Judith Henry was inside, bedridden, too old to work the farm that had been in her family more than a century. At ten o'clock, Confederate cannon suddenly rumbled into position on the rise 100 yards ahead. There, artillerists turned their guns toward Matthews Hill. Mrs. Henry had insisted on remaining in her house. That afternoon, she was killed by an artillery shell meant for sharpshooters firing from her windows. Judith Henry's grace and inscribed headstone are in the cemetery nearby.
13. MANASH_070506_209.JPG: Judith Henry grave marker
14. MANASH_070506_296.JPG: Bernard Bee marker
15. MANASH_070506_371.JPG: Stone House – Battlefield Landmark This building links today's landscape to the battlefield scene. The roadbeds have not changed; thousands of soldiers noticed the Stone House as they marched through this strategic intersection. During both battles Federals turned the former tavern into a field hospital. Bloody floorboards were hardly unique -- most houses in the area became crowded with wounded men -- yet in diary after diary soldiers mentioned this particular structure. The relatively unscarred walls may have provided an image of peacetime amid fields of terror. Stone House in March 1862. The Park Service has restored and furnished the house to resemble its 1861 appearance. Much of the structure may be original: the stone walls, window frames, and some floorboards.
16. MANASH_070506_392.JPG: Stone House from Matthews Hill. Henry Hill is beyond it. US 29 runs in the middle.
17. MANASH_070506_400.JPG: Pope's Headquarters: [Second Manassas] Headquarters, Army of Virginia, USA; 1:00pm, August 29 to 6:00pm, August 30, 1862: "There were no tents, nothing to mark the spot except a cracker box or two for seats." -- Brig. Gen. John Gibbon
18. MANASH_070506_404.JPG: Kite fliers atop Matthews Hill
19. MANASH_070506_426.JPG: Atop the hill was Pope's headquarters during Second Manassas
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