Back Door to the Stone House

First and Second Manassas

Back Door to the Stone House

The Stone House on the Manassas Battlefield was used as a field hospital during both Manassas battles.

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Colonel Robert T. Preston, commanding the 18th Virginia Infantry: “I was directed by General Beauregard in person to cross the turnpike and scour the woods beyond.  In performing this service I detached Company A, Captain Patton, with orders to examine the stone house of Matthews, from which a hospital flag was suspended.  In this house were found a large number of the wounded enemy, some dead, and thirty-six men, who surrendered themselves prisoners.” -- Preston’s battle report, in War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, series I, volume 2, page 551

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