Bull Run

• The Sudley Church in 1862

  

  George Barnard took this photo of the Sudley Church in March of 1862. Union forces crossed the Bull Run near Sudley Church as part of their broad flanking attack.

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• 1862 View of Catharpin Run and the Sudley Church

  

  This March 1862 photo shows the Catharpin Run, Sudley Church (on the hill), and the ruins of Sudley Sulphur Spring House.

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• View from Henry Hill to Matthews Hill

  

  View from the top of Henry Hill out towards Matthews Hill. The Union attack on July 21, 1861 came over Matthews and Buck Hills, by the Stone House, and up the face of Henry Hill.

• Wartime view of the Matthews House

  

  This rare wartime photograph shows the Matthews House on the battlefield

• The Stone House in 1862

  

  George Barnard photo of the Stone House in March of 1862.

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• The Stone House at Manassas

  

  The Stone House at Manassas is one of the most prominent and popular landmarks on the Bull Run battlefield.

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• Traffic Pressures at Manassas

  

  The growing metropolitan Washington DC area and City of Manassas are placing enormous pressures on the Manassas battlefield.

• Colonel Burnside Leads the Charge

  

  Civil War illustration of Colonel Ambrose Burnside leading a charge during the Battle of Bull Run. In November 1862, Burnside becomes the commander of the Army of the Potomac.

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• General Bee Monument at Manassas

  

  View of the General Bee monument atop Henry Hill. Confederate General Bee was mortally wounded while retreating back up Henry Hill. Bee reportedly uttered the words "...there stands Jackson like a Stone Wall, rally behind the Virginians."

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• Atop Henry Hill - from the Confederate Perspective

  

  View of the Henry House from the perspective of Stonewall Jackson's lines at the Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas)

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• Wartime Sketch of the Damaged Henry House

  

  This wartime sketch of the Henry House shows the damage that this structure received during the Battle of Bull Run.

• The Remains of the Judith Henry House

  

  Damaged during the Battle of Bull Run, the Henry House was completely demolished by Confederate soldiers camped in the area after the battle.

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• The Grave of Judith Henry

  

  View of the tombstone of Judith Henry. At 85 years of age, Henry was too infirm to move from her home atop Henry Hill and thus become one of the first civilian casualties of the Civil War.

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• Confederate Artillery Atop Henry Hill

  

  View of Confederate artillery atop Henry Hill.

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• A Storm Over Stonewall

  

  A summer storm brews over the Stonewall Jackson Monument at the Manassas Battlefield. This muscular monument was unveiled in August 1940.

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• Rickett's Battery on Henry Hill

  

  View of guns from Rickett's Battery atop Henry Hill. This Union battery brazenly moved up to the summit to take the newly reformed Confederate line under direct fire.

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• Stone Bridge Across the Bull Run

  

  View of the reconstructed Civil War era stone bridge that carried the Warrenton Turnpike over the Bull Run. Union soldiers fleeing the battlefield used this bridge to escape

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• The Stone Bridge in Ruins

  

  View of the remains of the Stone Bridge over Bull Run. Retreating Union forces used this bridge to escape the battlefield and Confederate forces later fully demolished the bridge in March of 1862.

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• Congressman Alfred Ely, Captured

  

  US Congressman Alfred Ely (R-NY) was captured by Confederates at the Battle of Bull Run and interred in Libby Prison in Richmond for six months before being exchanged.

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• The Henry House Today

  

  View of the reconstructed Henry House and the Bull Run Monument on the Manassas National Battlefield.

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• 1865 Dedication of the Bull Run Monument

  

  Civil War veterans and other dignitaries pose before the new Bull Run monument on the Manassas Battlefield.

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• Confederate Veterans of Bull Run

  

  Two Confederate veterans shake hands at the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas).

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• President Taft at the 50th Anniversary

  

  President Taft delivers an address during the 50th Anniversary commemoration of the Battle of Bull Run in July, 1911.

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• 1961 Reenactment of the Battle of Bull Run

  

  Photograph of a reenactment held during the centennial of the Battle of Bull Run.