Hike the Manassas Battlefield with Garry Adelman: 160th Anniversary of 2nd Manassas

Join our Chief Historian Garry Adelman as he traverses more than ten miles of the Second Manassas Battlefield with narration, route maps and photos along the way. From Matthews Hill to the Deep Cut, Brawner Farm, Stuart’s Hill, Chinn Ridge, Henry Hill and more, enjoy this retelling of the battle on the ground where it happened, during the actual battle anniversary!
The American Battlefield Trust preserves America’s hallowed battlegrounds and educates the public about what happened there and why it matters. We permanently protect these battlefields for future generations as a lasting and tangible memorial to the brave soldiers who fought in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Civil War.

[@gowherethereisnopath]

Fantastic! Loved the walking tour. Thank you so very much!

[@jeffnelson4167]

Thank you Garry! This was awesome!!

[@cocofirenze]

Gary your enthusiasm is infectious. I'm sprinting to support the ABT after binging a pile of videos. A million thanks

[@mickeyholding7970]

Thank you Gary and crew for a great tour of our battlefield. I deeply appreciate yall's efforts.

[@JFreeze714]

Excellent. I am coupling readings of the SHELBY FOOTE CIVIL WAR SERIES & THE PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR Vol.1. I have been waiting for something like this to give me better insight as I read along. Thank you, Garry & Trust.

[@lizlittle1641]

I enjoyed walking both 1st and 2nd battles of Manassas. They are my favorite battlefields.

[@mwdjr3158]

Another amazing educational video! Thanks so much.

[@matthewbissonnette2658]

Gary, thank you for your time, knowledge and enthusiasm for our history! Another great video from ABT. Definitely one of my favorite KZbin channels!

[@nikitaklebnikov3574]

Gary, Thank you for your work. Your fans including me love it. Be safe out there. Sincerely, Nikita

[@colbyt9967]

Thanks Gary for another great video!!! Hope to visit Manassas one day! Hope to meet you one day too! Thanks Again to Gary and ABT for all you do to preserve our hallowed ground! PRESERVE OUR BATTLEFIELDS 🇺🇸

[@catnip1776]

Thank you the awesome tour! Thank you for keeping our history preserved. I remember when Disney was going to build there. Now we have the data centers and solar moving in, trying to take historical land. Let's keep up the fight to preserve it, and let's keep the history true to what it is, no revision. Garry, I truly enjoy your video tours, and I want to thank you and the whole crew for the informative and entertaining content. ❤ Keep up the extra super good work 👍👍👍

[@Alex-in2tj]

Another brilliant video from ABT.

[@Gramma-Bambi-Lynn]

Thank you, Garry...you are much appreciated!

[@cruellafromphilly8909]

Was there for the 150th. Wow...that 10 yrs went fast!! Great job Gary!!! Luv this channel.

[@mikejenner568]

I was just there this past Saturday! It was awesome

[@kenanacampora]

The Great Garry Adelman and crew of serious historians.

[@josephdenice731]

Thanks for the shout out to the engagement at Brawner farm Saturday. It was an absolute blast and I hope other battlefields look to use this idea for their anniversaries. Excellent turnout and so much fun!

[@GhostofSicklesleg]

Excellent video and thanks Gary and ABT for all your work

[@joeritchie4554]

I am so glad that you are showing us this battlefield and explaining what happened here. My first family member, from my Dad's side of the family, fought for the union army and was killed in this battle.

[@georgiavanhouten9360]

I am so grateful for the Preservationist

[@R.Instro]

What a trek. Thanks for taking us on the trail with you.

[@philipryan25]

Thank you 👍

[@sgtzsquad]

Thanks Gary for the tour. My wife and I were there in 2018 and needless today, we missed alot of the battlefield you showed us today.

[@quietsloop3980]

This is great! Thank you for constantly uploading material. I learn something new every time I watch one of your videos

[@tumbleweedweed3691]

11 miles! I don’t know how you did it! This gem is in my neighborhood and I do bits and pieces at a time!

[@fireman19841]

GARY!! I just moved to this area! So bummed I didnt get to see you guys this trip.

[@joe5st817]

You got your steps in! Love the episode, 5 stars to Gary for going above and beyond for bringing us this video.

[@Alex-ej4wm]

Please do more of these Gary

[@TermiteUSA]

Gary, you'd pass any runner's "Talk Test". I admire your endurance and dedication! Great tour.

[@brentbman6945]

Outstanding video!

[@starwarsgenius1679]

It's a great battlefield and a fantastic park, both for hiking and learning about history. I've been there dozens of times, ever since I was a young child

[@jimmyjames9752]

SAVE OUR BATTLEFIELDS AMERICA 🇺🇸

[@richardglady3009]

As a person who will never “walk” this battlefield…thank you. If you’re interested in learning more information about the battle, John Hennessy’s book: “Return to Bull Run, The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas” is a great book. I own it and love the description with lots of good maps. Thank you, Garry, for all the great work that you and the Trust do.

[@blasbmly]

Thank you for that great video,outstanding.

[@peterschief9778]

Excellent, thanx

[@bassmangotdbluz3547]

In 1979 I flew a Hang Glider down the hill behind the Stone House and got in some trouble. In winter it is the greatest place to toboggan & sled. I have hiked and ridden on horseback over every inch of that National Park. As Manassas was my boyhood home, it's a place that is near and dear to my heart. I am a Manasshole.

[@jasonalexander3080]

Thanks Gary for this tour 👍

[@theRappinSpree]

Really glad we got a 2d Bull Run 160 video. For anyone wanting to read up on this battle & the Northern Virginia campaign of 1862 I can’t recommend John Hennessy’s Return to Bull Run book enough. One of my favorite ACW books and a fascinating account of a battle that doesn’t get enough coverage IMO.

[@tnwilliamson]

Thank you Garry. I've walked the battlefield in years past, not as thoroughly as you have just done. Lots of new information in this presentation. Thanks again. Tom

[@jamestownvirginia8463]

I grew up in Manassas and have walked that field many times. Thanks for what you do and never stop! It happened and no matter what people want to change about it, it's part of our history.

[@stephen3548]

Excellent hike! I was following along with the ABT maps and was fatigued just watching how far Garry was walking. He surely is the hardest working man in Preservation!

[@cyndiebill6631]

This is the most beautiful battlefield next to Gettysburg. I can’t imagine walking the whole thing in four hours. Thank you for the amazing video:👍♥️😃

[@davidbowman4259]

Chattanooga/Chickamauga is beautiful as well.

[@Spinonemaster]

Thanks Gary ... always a pleasure to get some of your knowledge and analysis ... we're all indebted to you and others for the preservation efforts ... I visited back in the 1979-80 and a young man and wondered how long the battlefield sites would last with development

[@NJcruiser]

Hardly anyone out on the battlefield. Love it. Manassas is my wife's favorite battlefield due to the terrain and preservation but mostly because you get 'Two for one' as she likes to say. Thanks for showing that and giving us an idea as to how long that hike was. Nice going. I have to think that it was a very hot day to hike that distance.

[@culmo80]

That's quite a walk you did! Manassas is probably my favorite battlefield. They take such great care of all the trails and monuments.

[@earlyriser8998]

i loved the walk (and wish I could still do that) and it showed the tight space of the battlefield

[@bymyhandsworked]

I walked the combined trail early last Sunday morning, was rather surprised to see union "troops" unexpectedly arriving in the fields. Together with the noise from the nearby shooting range, it was kind of, well, evocative. Nice tour, wish I knew as much.

[@rivertrees4733]

Thank you!

[@jdrive14]

Thank you for doing this. I’m so privileged to have grown up next to and explored these fields all my life.

[@Apollo1961]

Great video Gary. I have never been there and have only some rudimentary knowledge of either battle. But the fact that you traversed that much of the field in that time is impressive in itself.

[@HistoryBoy-ui5nb]

Thanks for the video. I got to visit Manassas earlier this year but did not get to around to the area of Longstreet's attack starting position. I'm glad I went to the battle site for I have three direct ancestors who fought at the second battle: one in 17th SCV of Evans' Brigade, one in the 6th SCV of Jenkins Brigade of Kemper Division and one in 12th SCV of Gregg Brigade of A.P. Hill Division. In a brief statement of interest for the Diary of David Jackson Logan, F Company of 17th SCV, "Our Brigade charged over the Texan Brigades of Gen. Hood and driving in the "Fire Zouaves" of Brooklyn fell with tremendous force upon the main body of the enemy, driving them back but in doing so the contest was terrible." He ended up being wounded during the assault.

[@joeparvana9549]

Thanks for posting, just a few weeks ago I was there walking the first Manassas trail, what a workout. Now I need to go back and follow your footsteps

[@masonmoore3473]

Awesome!

[@ericmowrey6872]

Thank you Gary for this wonderful and informative video of the 2nd Manassas. I visited the battlefield in the summer of '92, almost exactly thirty years ago. I was still relatively young- in my late thirties- and able to spend the entire day hiking about on a hot day. I searched in vain at the time for Brawner's Farm. Having read several first-hand accounts of the battle, I really wanted to see the area up close but got a bit lost instead. One of the accounts is in a book I bought at the time titled The Iron Brigade. The Brawner's Farm battle was described in great detail in one chapter. Jackson's men were both stunned and impressed by the stubbornness of the Wisconsin and Michigan boys. They shot each other at nearly point blank for over an hour until it was too dark to aim.

[@MTHU0080]

I was reading a book about the history of the civil war today and landed on learning about this battle today, on the 160th anniversary no less. I find it amusing that Pope had to eat his words after cockily sending word to Washington that he crushed the enemy. Crazy this could have been a turning point for the confederacy yet we know how it ended. Thanks for the wonderful breakdown, I'm glad someone on KZbin was documenting it on its anniversary.

[@DonaldKDever]

Good job !

[@lesdaddy912]

An amazing walking tour! Thank you Garry, for all you've given us.

[@janetgraf905]

Thankyou Gary. Great hike great video

[@grimace8560]

happy to see manssas getting some love

[@JessicaShull1928]

Thank you Garry! Wow, an excellent effort and a wonderful detailed explanation, sir.

[@thomasjoe44]

GARY MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER'S COUSIN DANIEL ASHBAUGH WAS IN CO. E OF THE 11TH PENNSYLVANIA AS WAS ANOTHER COUSIN IN SAME CO. BUT DANIEL ASHBAUGH DID NOT MAKE IT OUT OF THE SECOND BULL RUN HE WAS LISTED AS DROWNED IN BULL RUN CREEK ON AUG 30TH AND WAS SHIPPED BACK TO PENNSYLVANIA AND BURIED NEAR LEECHBURG PENNSYLVANIA THANKS FOR THE BATTLE FIELD TOUR ALWAYS LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR TOUR VIDEOS WHEN I CAN WATCH THEM

[@astaboy]

The sheer weight of Civil War knowledge packed into heads of guys like Garry Adelman. Sometimes I'm amazed that they can even stand up straight.

[@bonanzatime]

The second battle of Manassas Bull Run was much more brutal than the first one.

[@gale212]

We need the burnsides for Antietam 160!

[@bassmangotdbluz3547]

The 70s expansion of I-66 from Centreville on to I-81 has that section of Rt.29-211 that runs through the Manassas NBP from the Stone House to Gainesville past adjacent Conway Robinson State Forest very thankfully seeing very little traffic anymore. Grovetown Rd south of Featherbed Ln (or "Buttermilk Rd" as my Scoutmaster mistakenly told my father once while giving him directions, lol) was residential but all those properties were purchased, houses were leveled, not even driveways or foundations are left. When I mustered out of the Navy, I attended Northern Virginia Community College or as my father called it "The University of 234", just next to the NBP.

[@nicolebriana4664]

It’s crazy seeing someone exploring were I live

[@davidbeal8054]

Nice! now, I can't wait to go there. I'll have to get a new hat.

[@robertlee8474]

Outstanding presentation! As a distance runner myself, I’m wondering what your mileage was that day? Did you wear a Garmin?

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

I used the Relive app. GA

[@charlierichardson613]

Great video! The equipment seems to be getting better; not that it was bad before but this really looks great! A lot of good info here. I would loved to have seen an ABT map as well as the overhead map just to get my bearings.

[@bassmangotdbluz3547]

That Groveton Monument is a favorite place for Copperheads, Timber Rattlers and many other Snakes to warm themselves in the sun.

[@bassmangotdbluz3547]

@ 5:40 I along with 2 others had a supernatural experience in that very parking area by the Deep Cut one evening in 1980. I backed in and parked with my windshield to the trailhead. When I turned off the headlights the scene was of a disorganized Union route. Smoke filled the air, soldiers were dragging their wounded comrades along, there was discarded military equipment on the ground everywhere nearby. We still in the car looked at one another in disbelief. I flipped on the headlights and it was all gone. 40 years later I contacted the two others and discussed our experience. I had to be sure I hadn't dreamed it. I didn't and it was not drug induced either.

[@jeffm3163]

Wow 160 years ago already

[@seanmoran5139]

Gary, How did you get to the Brownsville area and the Dogan House from the trail at the Lewis House? The NPS brochure map does not show a trail...IS there a trail or did you just walk along the roadside?

[@Wilders53]

I love my home state of Virginia! I've got family in manassas

[@Citothescout]

I thought I saw him but I was too shy to say hi 😩

[@johnsimms4501]

Gary, Can you ride a mountain bike on those trails? On some battlefields you can ride on the paved and sometimes the dirt paths but or course, not on/in the sensitive areas.

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

Each trail is marked with what is permitted. Most are not for bikes.

[@dannygreenii5611]

Be safe we need you all!!!!

[@kevindecoteau3186]

Was the 70's group Brownsville station named after this place? :)

[@dougketcher7229]

Awesome tour, Gary! I was wondering tho, and I don't think you mentioned it, but didn't a reg of Penn volunteers led by Gen John Reynolds hold the last Confederate advance as it was crossing Sudley Road in pursuit the Pope's Union Army as it retreated toward Centreville? Just going by memory, but I seem to recall Reynolds being cited by Pope for riding along the line exalting the line to hold against the onslaught. I may be wrong...

[@DonaldKDever]

I would like you guy's think about using a drone to give us a better perspective. Thank you, Donald

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

You can’t in national parks.

[@daviddifonzo7938]

What day will you be at Antietam this week? I'd like to stop by and say Hello.

[@funnerthanbefore4947]

When he said give em the rocks,..... is the field unchanged from then, or has it been restored?....

[@PRCoolBreeze]

Good shout out to the Texas Spam.

[@xilla99]

Did you feel any kind of Negative energy on the battlefield? When I was 7, I saw a civil war soldier ghost shaving his beard near a lake. He looked at me and disappeared all of sudden.

[@bigsarge2085]

👍

[@citizenbobx]

Get some rest, man.

[@dannygreenii5611]

Preservation......

[@rebelhorse1882]

What’s the name of the developer that wants to put that apartment complex next to the Gettysburg National military Park ?

[@Waldchlh175]

جميل👍👍

[@DonaldKDever]

Wish all battle fields could be cleared to the period time.

[@matthewhedstrom6575]

Why is the 3rd Minnesota never mentioned that Pope commanded?

[@ImHungryMK]

How many ticks did you pick up.

[@timferryA1]

Yup, tick central!

[@fishinglunkies3629]

Does anyone know who dug the out the railroad cut? Slaves or railroad workers?

[@dannygreenii5611]

Them fences @7:20 look oldngrate!

[@joshuaglaude1549]

Gary, you look thinner this series. You good?

[@JESUSCRISTOEOSENHOR.Salete]

Leia essa mensagem importante . Qual a importância de aceitar a Jesus como salvador da nossas almas ? Olha é importante agente confessar a Jesus como salvador das nossas almas ,por que está escrito , Jesus assim falou que se alguém mim negar diante dos homens eu também negarei diante dos anjos de Deus,ou seja Jesus vai dizer no último dia aperta de mim eu não te conheço,essa é uma das importâncias de aceitar a Jesus , também aceitamos Jesus pra ter nossos nomes escritos no livro da vida e conseguir uma morada em seu lindo paraíso.

[@tomgreen1721]

The Alabama was the best

[@LeeHoFooks]

Take a breath sometimes.

[@almirsouza617]

the American civil war left millions of people dead! in 1867 where the bloodiest battles between North and South took place , Today 200 years later, the same places have turned into . Supermarket parking, condominium of houses.🇧🇷🇺🇸👍

[@tberkoff]

Huh? Almost everything you wrote was wrong.

[@rebelsoul5980]

@@tberkoff 🤣🤣 just let him go I guess😌

[@almirsouza617]

@@tberkoff I'm Brazilian! But I know what happened in the American civil war, the places where there were great battles between the south and north, Today it exists! Supermarket parking, condominium of houses, , if this is not true, then National Geographic is lying.🤔

[@charlietheanteater3918]

He’s a little confused but he’s got spirit

[@colbyt9967]

@@rebelsoul5980 😂😆🤣😑🇺🇲

[@SoulKiller7Eternal]

2nd Bull Run. We won the war.