Counterattack

Dead cannoneers lay in rows between their cannon and dead horses along the back slope, while the immobilized Union guns remained a magnet for both armies. Up the slope marched the 14th Brooklyn in Zouave uniforms, and they managed to recapture Griffin’s two guns for a few moments. From here to Ricketts’ cannon, the fighting settled into a bloody seesaw pattern, with Confederates capturing the line or artillery, Federals driving them off, and reinforcements again charging the guns. Late in the afternoon Confederates finally seized and held Henry Hill. The battle was decided on Henry Hill but ended on Chinn Ridge, where fresh Confederate brigades crossed Sudley Road and overwhelmed the Union right flank. Thirteen months later, these armies fought over the same terrain again in the Second Manassas campaign.

Sudley, Virginia · United States