On the Skirmish Line

Second Battle of Manassas

Thirty minutes before the main assault, Colonel Hiram Berdan's 1st U.S. Sharpshooters clambered over the fence along the Groveton-Sudley Road and dashed into the open pasture. The skilled marksmen kept up a steady fire with their breech-loading ...

First Massachusetts Infantry Skirmish Line

Right of the

Skirmish Line

First

Massachusetts

Infantry

Left resting on

Spangler's Lane

11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. July 2, 1863

Loss on skirmish line

Killed 8, Died of wounds 2,

Wounded 32, Prisoners 10.

Total 52.

Marker can be reached from Emmitsburg Road (Business U.S. 15), on the right when traveling ...

Reno's Skirmish Line - Warrior Counterattack

June 25, 1876

Reno's battalion of 175 soldiers, civilian personnel, and Arikara and Crow Scouts halt in the valley and form a thin skirmish line. Warriors race out from the village to oppose him. After 10 minutes of fighting Lakota and ...

Skirmish Line of 2nd Regiment Delaware Volunteers

Skirmish Line

of

2nd Reg. Del. Vols.

July 3rd 1863

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

From Skirmish Line to Burial Ground

Some of the Union infantrymen who defended this ground on the night of September 14th returned the next day. Even though the Confederate strategy had won the battle for Harpers Ferry, and these Union soldiers were part of the largest ...

The First Line of Defense: The Union Skirmish Line

After sunset on September 14, 1862, the Confederate cannons across the road on School House Ridge vanished in the darkness. The features of the landscape began to blur as the shell-shocked Union soldiers on Bolivar Heights wondered if they could ...

Sharpshooters at the Skirmish Line

The sharpshooters at the skirmish line waited until Tarleton's army got within shooting distance. Their orders were to slow Tarleton's advance with well-aimed rifle fire and then fall back to the militia second line. As the British came within range ...

Union Skirmish Line

Union troops on the crest and slope of Bolivar Heights to the East were attacked by Confederates lead by Gen. Jackson from School House Ridge to the West on 14 Sept. 1862. Private Paylor, Co. D., 111th NY, recalled this ...

Battle on the Skirmish Line

May 24, 1864 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Grant misinterpreted Lee’s withdrawal on May 23 and 24 as Confederate weakness and ordered the Army of the Potomac to brush aside any scattered Rebel resistance and advance to Richmond. Major General Ambrose E. Burnside ...

Skirmish Line

In this vicinity and parallel to the driveway, a line of scattered human remains were detected in 2000, which may mark the main skirmish line of the 17th U.S. Infantry. The bodies of those killed lay exposed to the elements ...