Second Battle of Manassas

Second Battle of Manassas is a Virginia historical marker in Prince William County, dedicated 1931.

Rte. 234 (Sudley Road), 0.71 miles south of Rte. 29 (Lee Highway)

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On the Henry Hill, Pope's rear guard, in the late afternoon of August 30, 1862, repulsed the attacks of Longstreet coming from the west. If the hill had been taken, Pope's army would have been doomed; but the Unionists held it while the rest of their troops retreated across Bull Run on the way to Centreville.

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1857 · Delaware And Maryland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1859 · Virginia (Herman Boye, 1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Map Of N. Eastern Virginia And Vicinity Of Washington (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1865 · Central Virginia showing Lieut Gen'l U.S. Grant's Campaign and Marches. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · N.E. Virginia, Washington 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Map Of N. Eastern Virginia And Vicinity Of Washington, 1862, covering the location of Second Battle of Manassas, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Map Of N. Eastern Virginia And Vicinity Of Washington, 1862, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Second Battle of Manassas

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