Sculpted by Gary Casteel
 
1863 Signed and Numbered Limited Edition Monument Replicas
 
The 7th Georgia Infantry was formed in 1861 in Atlanta, Georgia, and served in the 1st Brigade, Army of the Shenandoah, under Colonel Francis S. Bartow during the First Battle of Manassas (July 21, 1861).  Nineteen men were killed during the battle and 134 fatally wounded, including Colonel Bartow.
 
The marker commemorates the position of the 7th Georgia Infantry during the capture of Ricketts battery, a defining event in the Confederate victory at the First Battle of Manassas.  Unfortunately, the monument was removed from its original Henry Hill location after 1941.  It was rediscovered in the Manassas Park Maintenance Storage shed in 1987.  The stone was cataloged and positioned in accordance with a map published by Warder and Catlett in 1862 and the 1941 park master plan.  Its current location is not exact but conforms to the current interpretation of the battlefield site.  This marker is one of six placed on the battlefield between 1903 and 1911 by veterans of the war to note the regiment’s position during the First Battle of Manassas.
 
A small interpretive wayside in front of the stone reads: “Sometime after 1903 veterans of the 7th Georgia Infantry erected at least six markers on the Manassas battlefield to locate battle positions.  Only this marker and one other approximately 350 yards southeast of here survive. Colonel Francis S. Bartow was killed while leading the 7th Georgia against Captain James B. Ricketts’ battery. During the battle, the 7th Georgia suffered 153 casualties out of 580 men present.”
 
This monument was dedicated in 1903 and is located less than a hundred yards to the north of the Manassas National Battlefield Park visitor center.