Battles of Manassas • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments • The Armies
Stop 10 of the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour is Chinn Ridge. This was a minor area during the 1861, but in 1862 Longstreet’s attack on the final day swept across the fields, while Federal forces sacrificed themselves to desperately buy time for the army to withdraw.
Monuments and markers along Chinn Ridge:
Benjamin Chinn’s Hazel Plain
Chinn Ridge Orientation marker
Colonel Fletcher Webster monument
Death of Fletcher Webster wayside marker
Defending the Cannon wayside marker
Fight at the Fence Line wayside marker
Hooe Family Cemetery
Kemper’s Brigade trailside markers
Retreat from Chinn Ridge wayside marker
Second (Tower’s) Brigade trailside marker
Short of Total Victory wayside marker
Texas monument
Third (Stiles) Brigade trailside marker
73rd Ohio Infantry Regiment marker
The Chinn Ridge trail at Manassas national Battlefield
Location
Stop 10 of the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour, Chinn Ridge, is reached by a park road that turns off Sudley Road (Virginia 234) directly opposite the entrance to the Henry Hill Visitor Center. Although unnamed, the road is clearly marked for Chinn Ridge by National Park signage. From Sudley Road it is about 0.9 mile to the parking area at the end of the road. Another one-way road returns visitors to Sudley Road.