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Henry House is on the First Bull Run battlefield outside Manassas, Virginia.
This was the home of bedridden 84-year old Judith Henry, who insisted that she would not leave the house, her daughter Ellen, and a hired teenage slave, Lucy Griffith. During the battle Federal artillery fired on the house to drive away Confederate sharpshooters firing from its windows. The artillery fire mortally wounded the widow Henry and left the house in ruins. Judith Henry was the battle’s only known civilian fatality.
Judith’s husband, Dr. Isaac Henry, had been a Surgeon in the United States Navy on board the frigate U.S.S. Constellation. He died in 1829.
The current building is a postwar replacement for the ruined house.
Henry House from the east, with the Bull Run monument beside it.
Cemetery for the Henry family. Judith Henry’s gravestone is the large one in the center.
Location of the house
The house is on the Henry Hill Walking Tour about 700 feet north of the Manassas National Battlefield Park Visitor Center.