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

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The Outnumbered: The Stand in Robinson Lane wayside marker is on the Henry Hill walking tour,  which starts at the Manassas National Battlefield Visitor Center.

From the wayside marker:

Outnumbered:
The Stand in Robinson Lane 

Shot-up Confederate regiments stumbled past, in retreat from Matthews Hill. First along Warrenton Pike, then in Robinson’s Lane, Col. Wade Hampton’s South Carolinians tried to delay the Union advance. Slowly, with volley after volley of musket fire, the Union wave forced Hampton’s Legion back past Robinson House toward the pine woods. At this point the Confederate Army seems on the brink of defeat.

First
Battle of Manassas

From the caption to the drawing on the right:
You are standing at the historic farm lane and fence line. On this battlefield there was no time to build earthworks. Soldiers used every wrinkle of terrain for protection—firing prone from the road cut, or behind field stones and fence rails.

From the caption to the photo at the bottom:
South Carolina planter Wade Hampton organized this famous legion. His 600 infantry arrived by train from Richmond only hours before the battle.