"No Maneuvering and Very Little Tactics:" Archaeology and the Battle of Brawner Farm (44PW452)
Potter SR, Sonderman RC, Creveling MC, Dean SL. 2001. "No Maneuvering and Very Little Tactics:" Archaeology and the Battle of Brawner Farm (44PW452). Washington, D.C.
Late in the afternoon of August 28, 1862, on the Brawner farm near the First Manassas Battlefield, one of the fiercest firefights of the Civil War erupted between the Confederacy's Stonewall Brigade and the Union's Black Hat Brigade, later known as the Iron Brigade. The opposing infantry lines, only 70 to 80 yards apart, blasted away at one another for 90 minutes. One of the focal points of this bloody combat was a house known as Bachelor's Hall, rented by John Brawner. After acquiring the Brawner farm in May 1985, the National Park Service needed to determine if portions of the existing house dated to the time ofthe battle. To do so, historical, archaeological, and architectural research was undertaken in 1987 through 1989. The discovery of in situ battle-related artifacts in the yard surrounding the house prompted additional archaeological investigations in 1994 to locate evidence of the firing lines.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Potter, Stephen; Sonderman, Robert; Creveling, Marian; Dean, Susannah
- Date of Issue
- 2001
- Units
- HIST , MANA
- Keywords
- archaeological, Archaeology, Civil War, Confederate, ehistory, farm, History, Military, Study, tactics, union