Battles of Manassas • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments • Facts • The Armies
The Henry Hill Walking Tour wayside marker is at the Manassas National Battlefield Park Visitor Center. It is at the start of the mile-long loop trail that takes visitors through the heart of the 1861 battlefield.
The marker is at the start of the loop trail. Henry House is in the distance.
From the wayside marker:
Henry Hill Walking Tour
Retracing the Battle
On the tour route you follow in the footsteps of charging Union and Confederate troops, and stand where they loaded cannon or braced for a bayonet assault. Terrain and tree lines have changed little since that day. As you walk imagine deafening cannon and musket fire, whizzing shell fragments, and smoke rolling like acrid fog across the slope.
Some of the bloodiest fighting occurred at Rickett’s artillery, twenty yards ahead.
From the caption to the map:
Most of the recruits had never been shot at before. At several exhibits, recorded messages describe the nightmare in the soldiers own words – quotations from survivors’ letters and diaries.
From the caption to the photo at the bottom:
The loop trail is one mile long. At sites along the way exhibits and push-button recordings portray men and events that decided the battle’s outcome.
