on september 4, 1861, before a crowd of 1,000 people, the first confederate-dedicated monument was inaugurated at manassas, honoring francis bartow. an obelisk made of marble, it was mysteriously stolen in 1862. in 1936, in an attempt to repair this vandalism, a new marker was placed at the same site by the georgia division of the united daughters of the confederacy. a new monument of bartow exists nearby, several feet from the original one.