BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Manassas Natl Battlefield -- Chinn Ridge

VA -- Manassas Natl Battlefield -- Chinn Ridge:

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1. MANASC_110520_05.JPG: In memory of Colonel Fletcher Webster who here fell August 30, 1862 while gallantly leading his regiment the 12th Mass. Volunteers. This memorial was dedicated Oct. 21, 1914 by survivors of his regiment and Fletcher Webster Post, G.A.R. of Brockton, Mass. He gave his life for the principles laid down by his father Daniel Webster. "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable" This boulder was taken from the Webster place, Marshfield, Mass.
2. MANASC_110520_07.JPG: Death of Fletcher Webster: On the morning of the 30th, Col. Fletcher Webster wrote his wife: "If a fight comes off, it will be to-day or to-morrow & will be a most dreadful & decisive one. This may be my last letter, dear love, for I shall not spare myself..." About 5 p.m., leading his regiment to support the cannon here on Chinn Ridge, Webster was shot through the right arm and chest. He lay helpless in the confusion of the Union retreat as Confederates overran the guns. According to Ludwell Hutchinson of the 8th Virginia, he stopped to give water to a mortally wounded enemy officer. The officer - Fletcher Webster - asked Hutchinson to return his wallet to his family. Hutchinson survived the war and sent the wallet to the grieving but appreciative Websters. Col. Fletcher Webster of the 12th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry - son of the famous orator Senator Daniel Webster - is commemorated by the monument in the grove behind the cannon. Second Battle of Manassas: Day Three: August 30, 1862
3. MANASC_110520_09.JPG: August 30, 1862 5:30 p.m. Second Division (Ricketts) Third Corps (McDowell) Army of Virginia, USA Third Brigade Col. John W. Stiles 12th Massachusetts - 83rd New York 13th Massachusetts - 11th Pennsylvania "Our boys dropped like tenpins before an expert player. Ten feet to my left the tall sergeant of Company F sank down in a heap, shot squarely through the head. Franks went down with a bullet through the face. Stevens was swearing like mad, shot through the thigh. A man I did not recognize dropped just in front. I heard the bullets chug into his body; it seamed half a dozen struck him. I shall never forget the look on his face as he turned over and died." -- Pvt. George D. Paine, 13th Massachusetts
4. MANASC_110520_11.JPG: Defending the Cannon: 5th Maine Battery: Picture Longstreet's advance - gray lines of Confederates as far as you can see, driving Ohio troops from the rail fence across the field toward this position. Here four gun crews from Maine were trying to load and fire faster than they ever had in their lives. As Confederates surged into close range, the cannoneers switched from shell to canister. Like a giant shotgun, the barrage perforated the first line of assault, but reinforcements quickly filled the gaps. Confederates were soon cutting their way through the battery. Slashing with his sword, Colonel Skinner killed two cannoneers before a Union bullet tore through his side. Skinner survived his wound, and later remarked, "I hated to kill those brave men." The fight to recapture the guns lasted forty-five minutes - enough time for Federal reserves to take position below Henry Hill. There, along the Sudley Road cut, Federals hoped to avert total defeat. (An exhibit this side of Sudley Road gives the Confederate's perspective of the Union's last-ditch defense.) Second Battle of Manassas Day Three: August 30, 1862
5. MANASC_110520_20.JPG: August 30, 1862 5:30 p.m. Kemper's Division, Right Wing (Longstreet) Army of Northern Virginia, CSA Kemper's Brigade Col. Montgomery D. Corse 1st Virginia - 11th Virginia 7th Virginia - 17th Virginia 24th Virginia "Above us, on a gentle rise, was a battery - the guns hidden from view by a dense curtain of smoke. Nothing could be seen but the flash of the guns. 'Form into line men! Forward! Charge that battery!' The veil of smoke slowly lifted, and we could see the muzzles of the guns. Then came a horrid roar and dull shock that seemed to shake the very earth, and then the dull thud of the balls as they tore through the bodies of our men. I looked around me. The ground was covered with the mangled dead and dying." -- Pvt. Alexander Hunter, 17th Virginia Infantry
6. MANASC_110520_23.JPG: August 30, 1862 5:00 p.m. 2nd Brigade (McLean), First Division (Schenk) First Corps (Sigel), Army of Virginia, USA 73rd Ohio Infantry Col. Orland Smith "The enemy in our front, moving in concert with those on our flank, came out of the woods - their line masking and overlapping our own. The whole left of our brigade poured into them a murderous volley. The combat grew fierce indeed. But the contest was not long. On came the flanking column. We stood until the enemy had nearly gained our rear, and had opened fire upon our flank. Then we retired." -- Samuel B. Hurst, Regimental Historian
7. MANASC_110520_34.JPG: Fight at the Fence Line: From the left and rear came wave after wave of Confederates. At that moment the only troops facing them were two regiments of Ohio infantry taking cover behind the rail fence. (The Ohioans knew what was coming: they had witnessed the few surviving New York Zouaves stagger out of the woods.) The Confederate columns divided around Chine House and swept toward the fence line, less than 100 yards away. Suddenly the Ohioans rose and fired. Their concentrated volley struck the front rank of the Confederates like a shock wave. For ten minutes deafening musket fire continued at close range until overwhelming numbers forced the Ohioans back along the ridge. A Crucial Delay: Longstreet's massive counterattack had a chance to annihilate the Union Army, caught in the open after the repulse at Deep Cut, but the Ohioans bought the Union time. Now Union reinforcements rushed to Chinn Ridge; cannon wheeled into position on the far knoll where the pin oak stands. Those guns became the Confederate's next objective. Benjamin Chinn's farm was called "Hazel Plain." The house and several outbuildings stood here at the time of the battle. On the far left is a drawing depicting the Ohioans firing from behind a fence line. On the upper right is a battle map illustrating the action described in the text. Second Battle of Manassas Day Three: August 30, 1862
8. MANASC_110520_35.JPG: Notice the marked off line -- it said "Weapons are prohibited" until NRA-inspired complaints killed it.
9. MANASC_110521_51.JPG: "Hazel Plain" The Benjamin Chinn House Site
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