Battles of Manassas • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments • Facts • The Armies
The Invaded Farmland wayside marker is on the Henry Hill walking tour next to the Henry House.
From the wayside marker:
Invaded Farmland
The morning of the battle was hot and still. Except for a few details the scene mirrored today’s pastoral landscape. Fields lay fallow, overgrown with tall grass. Around the Henry House grew rose bushes and a small peach orchard. Eighty-five-year-old Judith Henry was inside, bedridden, too old to work the farm that had been in her family for more than a century.
At ten o’clock Confederate cannon suddenly rumbled into position on the rise 100 yards ahead. There artillerists turned their guns towards Matthews Hill.
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Battle of Manassas
From the caption to the photo on the right:
Henry House during peacetime
From the caption to the photo at the bottom:
Henry House as it appeared just after the battle, riddled with bullets and cannon-fire. Mrs. Henry had insisted on remaining in her house. That afternoon she was killed by an artillery shell meant for sharpshooters firing from her windows. (Judith Henry’s grave and inscribed headstone are in the cemetery nearby.)
