The Bartow Monument

Colonel Francis S. Bartow was killed near here while leading the 7th Georgia Infantry in a counterattack at First Manassas. An ardent defender of slavery and states' rights, the Georgia politician had been placed in command of a brigade of state troops shortly before the battle. His death made him one of the South's earliest military martyrs. Six weeks after the battle, the men of Bartow's brigade dedicated a stone shaft on the spot where he fell, possibly the first monument erected on any Civil War battlefield. That monument disappeared the following spring.

Sudley, Virginia · United States