Battles of Manassas • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
“The National Zouaves”
The monument to the 10th New York Infantry Regiment is at Stop 9 (see map below) on the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour.
The 10th New York Infantry is also honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
Text from the monument:
10th New York Vol. Infantry
From the tablet on the front of the monument:
Erected by the State of New York, to commemorate the patriotic services of the 10th Reg’t New York Volunteers
National Zouaves
Mustered into the U.S. Service April 27th 1861. Reorganized as a Battalion, April 27th 1863. Participated in 23 battles and campaigns, including the surrender of the Confederate Army at Appomattox, Va. April 9th, 1865. Here, August 30th 1862 the Regiment assisted in resisting the assault of a superior force of the enemy, losing nearly a third of its number, one officer and thirty men were killed or mortally wounded. “Braver men than those who fought and fell that day could not be found.”
Report of Col. G.K. Warren, Com’d Brigade
(Below) The top of the monument has a bronze bas-relief of the Seal of the State of New York. Above it are the superimposed symbols of the two corps in which the 10th New York served: the trefoil of the Second Corps, and the Maltese Cross of the Fifth Corps.
Location of Stop 9
The monument to the 10th New York Infantry Regiment 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)