Battles of Manassas • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments • The Armies
Second Manassas/Second Bull Run Battlefield
Stop 2 of the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour is at Battery Heights. This is where the Union artillery deployed during the Battle of Groveton, or Brawner’s Farm, which was the starting point for the three-day Second Battle of Manassas. The trail that starts here connects with the Brawner Farm loop trail and Stop 1 of the Drivinig Tour.
Cannon at Battery Heights. The mowed path that heads into distance connects with the Brawner Farm loop trail from Stop One on the Driving Tour
Company B, 4th United States Artillery trailside marker
There is a trailside marker at Stop Two for Company B, 4th U.S. Artillery.
Text from the marker:
August 28, 1862
6:30 p.m.
1st Division (King), Third Corps (McDowell),
Army of Virginia, USA
Company B, 4th U.S. Artillery
Capt. Joseph B. Campbell
Six 12-pounder Napoleons
“Campbell’s pieces came up on the gallop, these fences along the pike being torn down to let them pass into the field. With shells bursting about them, they were placed in position and began to reply rapidly from the knoll from where I had first caught sight of the enemy’s guns.
– Brig. Gen. John Gibbon
Cannon at Battery Heights. Between the trees in the distance is the ridge on Brawner’s Farm where “Stonewall” Jackson’s men fought.
Location of the Tour Stop
Stop two is on the north side of US 29 (Lee Highway) about 0.9 mile east of Pageland Road and 0.5 mile west of Groveton Road.