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Battles of Manassas • Tour the Battlefield •  Monuments • Facts • The Armies

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The Robinson House wayside marker is on the Henry Hill walking tour,  which starts at the Manassas National Battlefield Visitor Center. The Robinson House was rebuilt in the 1920s, and burned in 1993.

From the wayside marker:

Robinson House 

The home of James Robinson—a freed slave—stood here at the time of the battle. That morning hundreds of Confederates streamed through the yard as they retreated from the Union attach. Surprisingly, the property suffered little damage in the first battle, but Union troops sacked the house and fields during Second Manassas. For these damages Congress awarded Robinson $1,249 by Private Act of March 3, 1873.

First
Battle of Manassas

From the caption to the photo:
Robinson House, as it appeared in 1861. The present structure is not original, though a section of it dates to 1888.