Battles of Manassas • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments The Armies


The monument to Brigadier General Bernard E. Bee is on Henry Hill near the Visitor Center.

The monument to Brigadier General Bernard E. Bee on the Manassas battlefield

Rext from the monument

General
Bernard Elliott Bee

of South Carolina
commander
Third Brigade
Army of the Shenandoah
was killed here July 21, 1863.

Just before his death
to rally his scattered troops
he gave the command,
“Form, Form, There stands Jackson
like a stone wall.
Rally behind the Virginians>”

Presented by 
The Mary Taliaferro Thompson
Southern Memorial Assn.
of Washington, D.C. July 21, 1939

Detail of the inscription from the monument to Brigadier General Bernard E. Bee on the Manassas battlefield