Stop 9 – New York Monuments

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

Stop 9 of the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour is on the south end of New York Avenue about 0.3 mile south of Lee Highway (U.S. 29). It was here on the last day of the Second Battle of Manassas that two New York regiments were overwhelmed as they tried to slow Longstreet’s attack to buy time for the rest of the army.

New York Monuments Tour stop sign

There are monuments and wayside markers at Stop 9 and along the drive in from the Turnpike:

monuments
Fifth New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
10th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
14th New York State Militia

wayside markers
Confederate Counterattack
Federal Artillery Position
Fighting in Twilight – The Hatch-Hood Collision
One Sided Slaughter – Fate of the 5th New York 
The Very Vortex of Hell

Map of New York Avenue on the Manassas battlefield

Location and directions

Stop 9 of the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour is on the south end of New York Avenue about 0.3 mile south of Lee Highway (U.S. 29). (38°48’36.3″N 77°32’39.4″W) Some of the monuments and markers are along New York Avenue leading south from Lee Highway.