Henry House Hill in Manassas Virginia by The Webmaster (Living In Woodbridge Va) Henry House Hill in Manassas Virginia It starts with this communique... Headquarters First Corps, Army of the Potomac, Manassas, August 24, 1861. ......It became necessary on the morning of the 21rst, to modify the plan to suit the contigency of an immediate attach on our lines. In his official report of the Battle of Manassas, General Beauregard continues to describe the ensuing battle. "Two federal brigades of Heintzelman's division were now brought into action, led by Rickett's superb light battery of six ten-pounder rifie guns..." "The enemy's force, now bearing hotly and confidently down on our position, regiment alter regiment of the best equipped men that ever took the field — according to their own official history of the day — was formed of Colonels Hunter's and Heintzelman's divisions. Colonels Sherman's and Keyes' brigades of Tyler's division, and of the formidable batteries of Ricketts, Griffin, and Arnold regulars, and Second Rhode Island, and two Dahlgren howitzers — a force of over 20,000 infantry, seven companies of regular cavalry and twenty-four pieces of improved artillery. " Henry House Hill With Rickett's Battery in the Foreground He continues to state that the federalists had seized a plateau on which the Robinson and the Henry House were situated while Beauregard's guns were situated about 500 to 600 yards from the Henry House. According to Beauregard, the federalists "suffered greatly from our artillery" and the whole ground was again "swept clear of the enemy" and the plateau around the Henry and Robinson houses "remained finally in our possession, along with the greater part of the Rickett's battery". Click here to post comments. Join in and write your own page! It's easy to do. How? Simply click here to return to Events/Things To Do.
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