| Virginia, Manassas Park — Battle of Bull Run Bridge — “Let this not become another Bull Run” — Second Manassas Campaign | | | In August 1862, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee ordered Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson from the Rappahannock River to keep Gen. John Pope’s and Gen. George B. McClellan’s Union armies from uniting. Jackson marched on Aug. 25, and Lee followed the next day with the rest of the Army of Northern Virginia. When Jackson captured Manassas Junction on Aug. 26, Pope thought it was one of Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry raids and ordered Gen. George W. Taylor’s reinforced infantry brigade to . . . — Map (db m13287) | | Virginia, Manassas Park — Conner House — Headquarters and Refuge | | | Built of locally quarried sandstone about 1820 and later expanded, the Conner House was used during the Civil War by the Confederacy and then by the United States. After the First Battle of Manassas on July 21, 1861, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who with P.G.T. Beauregard had commanded the victorious Southern army, kept his headquarters here until November. From here, Johnston secured his position at Manassas Junction and control of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, the tracks of which ran just . . . — Map (db m738) | | Virginia, Manassas Park — Signal Hill — “Look out for your left, you are turned” | | | This elevation behind the Confederate right flank at Mantissas in July
1861 was one of four Confederate
signal stations established by Capt. Edward Porter Alexander; Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard’s signal officer. Because the hilltop was devoid of trees, it offered excellent sight lines
to the north and
west without
building a signal
tower. As Union
Gen. Irvin
McDowell’s army
approached, the
Centreville station
was abandoned,
but Alexander’s
signalmen remained at the other three stations . . . — Map (db m3577) | | Virginia, Manassas Park — Signal Hill Monument | | | 8:45 A.M. July 21st 1861 Battle of First Manassas (Bull Run).
From this hilltop Capt. E.P. Alexander, CSA, sent America’s first battlefield telecommunication: Look out for your left, you are turned. This short message to Col. Evans warning him of Brig. Gen. McDowell’s flank march helped turn an impending defeat into a crucial victory, thereby securing for the signal corps a permanent place in the ranks of modern armies.
In memory of America’s Confederate signal veterans; the first . . . — Map (db m696) |
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