I want to start off with a few mentions. First off, thanks to Yusef for the diorama posts. I wouldn’t have bothered writing this article without your articles showing the interest the glibertariat has in historic battles. Thanks also to straffinrun for encouraging me to snap some pics and linking the Mises podcast.
The Mises podcast is absolutely kickass and worth a listen.
I’ll preface the bulk of this article by saying that I’m no expert on the Civil War, and I may get some details wrong.
Also, I highly recommend the following atlas if you are a civil war buff.
Here’s a basic view of the area surrounding the battlefield:
Now we zoom in to the battlefield.
I annotated the map to include some of the important landmarks:
From east to west between Henry Hill and Matthews Hill is the Warrenton turnpike. From north to south between Henry Hill and Chinns Ridge is Sudley Road.
I spent all of my time on Henry Hill, as I had my 1 year old with me and didn’t want to cross US 29 (Warrenton Turnpike) with her to walk Matthews Hill. These images are all hi res, so you should be able to zoom in by clicking on the images. Edit: the site choked on my super hi res images, so these are lower resolution but still clickable.
The Museum at Manassas
Looking East across the top of Henry Hill. Bull Run is about 1/2 mile into the woods.
Looking North from Stonewall Jackson’s statue at Henry House.
Henry House with Bull Run mountains in the distance
Still looking North at Henry House, Matthews Hill can be seen on the top right of the image
Henry House and a monument to the battle
Turning to the East, you can see a Union artillery line
Union Cannons
Confederate Artillery on the West side of Henry Hill pointing east
From the Confederate Artillery to the Union Artillery is maybe 1/4 mile west to east
Mrs. Henry’s grave at Henry House
Henry House
You can go into some of the houses, including Henry House and Matthews House
Looking East from Henry House. Stone Bridge is buried in the distant woods out of sight.
Matthews House at the base of Matthews Hill. Warrenton turnpike passes right in front of the house
Chinns Ridge is back in the woods to the West across Sudley Road. I didn’t make it back there.
Working East along a loop around Henry Hill, there are info boards in various places.
Northeast of Henry Hill is Robinson House, which is around 200 yards away from Warrenton Turnpike
The foundation of Robinson House
Working back South toward the Union Artillery
Another info board
View from the Union artillery West toward the Confederate line
Natural Beauty
Sudley Church
My photography assistant
A picture is worth a thousand words, so this is like a zillion word article! Let me know if you have any questions or want to see something more in specific.
Clearly this whole historic site is a celebration of evil White Supremacist, racist, shitlord Confederate Nazis and should be burned to the ground by Antifa.
Further reading: https://history.army.mil/html/books/035/35-2-1/cmhPub_35-2-1.pdf
I like this, Thanks Gustave
Thank you, trshmnstr. This is one Civil War battlefield I have not visited yet.
I love photo essays, and your little girl is adorable!
Thank you! She loves going out there and running around. One of the few places that she can run until she gets tired and still not have to turn around.
The civil war history is thick throughout this area, and it’s amazing how close the Confederates were to the capitol! The podcast talks about setting up last ditch Union defenses in Alexandria and Arlington, which are swimming distance from the heart of the fedgov.
I’m under the impression that Washington was essentially undefended after the first Manasses. The thing was simply not pressed.
If I remember correctly, the Confederates were out of food and thanks to bad intelligence thought Washington was defended, so they never bothered.
Yes, Stanton admitted later that the Confederates could have walked right in.
But they were as disorganized as the Union troops.
Reminds me of my teen years, driving through virginia with Tres Sr. to visit family. The old bastard had to stop at every “Historical Marker” sign on our route. Which in virginia is approximately every 150′.
Nice pics, Trashy.
Thanks trshmnstr! I think that’s Stone House, not Matthews House above though. Matthews House isn’t immediately on the turnpike, its set back a bit off of Sudley road.
Thanks, you’re right!
Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks. I’ve visited the place and was struck by how close the opposing lines were to each other. It was very emotional standing standing in the same spot as those poor sods in plain view of the enemy artillery.
NSFW
http://www.boobsrealm.com/2018/09/03/ashton-whitty-ashtonbirdie-vs-tess-holliday-and-bbw-girls/
NSFW
“An exploration of how people’s treatment of McCain changed after he died.”
https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1036367137235972097
In other words, Millennials have just discovered ‘de mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est‘ is a thing in human nature.
These are more or less the same people who played “Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead” when Margaret Thatcher died.
I’m not sayin’ I like it, but it’s a thing.
They apply it selectively.
Thanks for the pictures, Trashy! I’ll probably never get to visit those places, Keep going to more, and bring back Memories to share!
And they are great at hat age, enjoy the Little one while you can,
Beautiful. Thank you.
Mojeaux thanks for the link yesterday to that ER forum. I spent well over an hour reading those stories and laughing until I cried.
Don’t be SOCMOB, though. Some Guy or This One Dude will come along.
Lol. If there is one thing I learned from that site it is never SOCMOB.
I saw your shoulder post. I hope your recovery goes well.
Thank you!
https://twitter.com/BigBootyJudy814/status/1035911748082122753
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
I believe this is the actual live feed before it was censored by our Illuminati masters.
I don’t engage with the Twitters, really, but I’m sorely tempted to ask one or two of the women denouncing people for thinking that’s funny. I really, really hope that since they have such a problem with people laughing at Bill Clinton gettin’ busted for being a dirty old man and the pastor for groping Ms. Grande on stage that they subsequently called those two out on their own Twitter accounts, or wherever else one does that on social media. But, I’ll just say that I won’t be shocked if they haven’t quite gotten around to that yet.
I have to admit, despite my general interest in military history, I’ve always found the Civil War to be a snooze-fest. I reckon that part of it has to do with geography. Among my friends and acquaintances, generally, I’ve found that the closer they are to Dixie, the greater their interest in that particular conflict is. On the other hand, I’ve always had a great interest in both the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War, which I’m sure was nurtured in part by many school field trips to Old Fort at No. 4.
Yup: my folk were in it, the cannons and the graves are still in my backyard. That’s always going to be more compelling to me than Concord or even Brandywine.
We have this.
Very cool place. Surprisingly, Minnesota committed a lot of men to the war.
Fuck.
http://sites.mnhs.org/civil-war/minnesota-and-civil-war-first-last
I was just gonna look it up on Yahoo anyhow….
We had this connection to the Revolutionary war and Indian raids less than a mile from where I grew up.
Peter Poor
Most of my mother’s family lived in Virginia so we visited most of the civil war battle sites between DC and Richmond so that may explain my interest in both wars.
Same here. And it’s odd because I like American frontier history, so you’d think I’d also like this major event that happened during the same period. But no. The only thing I really like about the Civil War is some of the cool guns.
Being forced to study it in school in the most boring way possible may have created a distaste for that subject.
I had to leave Pennsylvania before I visited Gettysburg or did more than drive through Valley Forge.
Yeah, I’ve lived in the Annapolis area nearly all my life and most of my extended family is in Alabama. There are pictures of my grandfather as a kid posing with the sabre his grand-uncle (I don’t know what else you call that) carried as a cavalry officer. He got into a ton of trouble one summer at his aunt’s house because he found it in the attic and started to polish what he thought was rust off the blade. When she found him she was aghast and yelled at him to stop. When she recovered her composure, she explained that it was the last Yankee blood shed during the war (I’m almost 100% certain this is not true, but it’s a family legend) and it must never be cleaned from the sword. Now, I also have family who fought in the Revolutionary War, but I think because of the proximity in time, the sort of cultural and psychological legacy of the war, and the nearness of the battlefields, the Civil War has always loomed larger in my mind. I mean, we’ve got CSA money lying around and my father-in-law refers to the Union as “the bad guys” when the topic comes up, so it’s more immediately relevant to my family than any other war fought in North America.
My grandfather had a couple of very old swords he brought with him from Japan in the 1910s. Unfortunately, he lived in East LA and some fuckers broke in and stole them one night. Probably pawned them for $50 to buy crack.
Son of a bitch! Those would probably be worth a considerable bit of money, not to mention the heirloom factor and the historical significance.
Now that just sucks. East LA though we can probably rest assured thieves like that would have met karma and had a premature violent death. Fuck thieves.
I agree.
Hello
Nice job, Trashy!
I like the fact there are no crowds.
Hmmm. Those are some nice Napoleons you have there.
*salivates*
Thanks trash. I like looking at maps (due to a maps/charts fetish) to see what happened and who was where but seeing the spot in person really hammers it home as to what happened. I was fascinated with the civil war when I was a kid but lost interest somewhere and never really read much in later life.
I find history a little boring when it comes to wars and nation states… I tend to enjoy it on the “micro” level rather than “macro”, if that makes any sense. What I mean is that I like details about what life was like for everyday people – food, music, clothing, etc. I love to buy old records (all the way back to the beginning of recording) and listen to them, wondering how many hands it may have passed through over the centuries.
But yea, it’s a marvelous set of photos that Trashminister (that’s how I’m inclined to pronounce his name) has taken for us.
^This^
That sort of stuff is fascinating to me, too, although I do get into the “macro” level as well. I really like “living history” exhibits, and I’m lucky living where I am to be so close to places like Jamestown and Williamsburg because they do such a great job with reenacting day-to-day life.
Nice pictures trashmnstr!
Parents at Chinese kindergarten horrified by pole-dancing act
Old Man With Candy will be disappointed.
Also, footage.
Fuck, I would have loved to see that when I was in kindergarten.
I mean, the video does start with a group of young boys lined up right up front to watch. But parents ruin everything. And so do children.
I hate your families.
Educational innovation is stymied once again by bureaucrats.
I also wanted to share this from Shelby Foote’s definitive three volume history of the Civil War. On Stonewall Jackson, history’s greatest and most badass aspie:
Mr Foote was adorable.
We were born a few miles apart and came to live maybe 10,000 feet apart in 1990. He looked worn out, but he managed to pull on his walking togs and trace a loop that went right past my office window every day.
I never bothered him worse than to wave, which he always returned. His number was in the book and every damned fool alive would call him and pick his brain or test a theory; he answered his own phone.
He was also still judging at our barbecue festival, I want to say, as late as 1995.
Your daughter is adorable Trashy.
He didn’t even include the picture of the miniature trash can he puts her into when she tires herself out.
Something smells…….fishy
Eye, Witness News?
Paging Straffin. Straffinrun to the courtesy phone, please.
Why is Japan so weird ?
I wonder if you get to bang the robot maids in the luxury suites.
“In upstate New York, a DMT-inspired psychedelic temple rises
Tucked away on a tree-studded, 40-acre plot just a quarter mile from the Hudson River, one of New York’s most unusual construction projects is underway. The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM)—a transdenominational church and registered nonprofit—has been constructing the Entheon: “A place to discover god within.” The three-story windowless art space will be a temple to, among other things, original “visionary art” from the church’s husband-and-wife co-founders, Alex and Allyson Grey.
The couple, who have been together since first meeting (and dropping acid) in 1975, previously ran an art space in Manhattan. After closing down their Chelsea outpost in 2009, Alex and Allyson moved upstate, where they have been running their collective and a psychedelic variant of a bed-and-breakfast. Their Wappingers Falls location hosts monthly full-moon festivities, as well as large concerts and events. Placing art at the very center of their faith, the estate already features large-scale architectural artworks, such as the three-story gazebo-temple Altered States made by artist Kate Raudenbush, who describes herself as “New York-based, Burning Man–bred.””
https://archpaper.com/2018/06/psychedelic-art-temple-entheon/
What happened to old hippies just moving into a yurt, growing weed and quietly coexisting?
Truly a proper abode for a living meme.
Are those Alex Grey?
Not all of the ones used for the meme, but many of the higher enlightened ones, yes.
OK
This needs to be the new Glibertarians.com background:
It annoys me when people think that drugs are some kind of deep, spiritual thing. They’re just chemicals that jack up your brain function. They may be a lot of fun, but the things that go through your head on DMT, acid, or shrooms are no more meaningful than the thoughts you have when you’re drunk.
Some music for today’s commie holiday.
https://youtu.be/AJro-r1jxH8
H/T Scott Greenfield’s blog.
That was……. I’m just shaking my head, back and firth, back and forth,
To the barricades!
We have arrived at a point where Mikey’s links are not to be trusted.
Lol. Nice, mikey!
How was the party yesterday Yufus? Everybody hold a lit lighter on the last set?
It was pretty fun, til they shut us down at 10 PM, then we went acoustic and played til 2 AM, and minds were blown Lighters were lit.
And Killer Food!
It’s all a Blur,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/cabtExZ7omkueMQr9
Good to hear. Sounds fun.
Excellent!
Looks like you put on weight.
I took the picture, that’s Chuck on Guitar and Bob Q on madness in back, I shot the picture while my system ran automated for a minute
So no afternoon links because holiday?
HM gave a link dealing with crime at 2:52 on this page you should probably check out.
He probably shouldn’t disguise links to PornHub without a NSFW warning.
It’s labor day nobody is working.
I’m sure some people are.
New sump installed. Because, what else would you do on labor day.
Laundry, thanks for reminding me,
“NYC schools to give priority to predominantly black and Hispanic kids
A diversity drive is spreading across the city as 78 schools in 14 of the city’s 32 community districts now boast plans that will give admission priority to predominantly black and Hispanic kids — and more schools will soon follow, a Post analysis found.
The patchwork of plans, while still limited in scope — the city has 1,800 schools — amounts to the biggest de-segregation movement in Big Apple schools since the late-1950s Civil Rights era, when there was an abortive program to bus black kids from Bedford-Stuyvesant and East Harlem to white areas in Queens, a top scholar said.
Citywide, the current racial breakdown of NYC’s public-school students is 41 percent Hispanic, 26 percent black, 16 percent Asian, 15 percent white, and 2 percent “mixed.”
New schools Chancellor Richard Carranza has embraced diversity efforts more aggressively than Mayor de Blasio, who hired him.””
https://nypost.com/2018/09/02/nyc-schools-to-give-priority-to-predominantly-black-and-hispanic-kids/
So putting more blacks and hispanics in schools that are already mostly black and hispanic increases diversity?
I AM THE 2 PERCENT!
I don’t get it. Don’t they have school districts where any kid living in the district has to be accepted in the school?
They’re probably referring to their magnet schools.
Thank you for the awesome pictures, trshmnstr. Next time I find myself Stateside, I hope to visit as much of those places as I can, particularly Manassas.
Very late, but thanks for these pictures. They bring the images I had in my head into line with reality.