| Virginia, Fairfax — C-19 — Bull Run Battlefields |
| | Ten miles west were fought the two Battles of Manassas or Bull Run. — Map (db m619) |
| Virginia (Fairfax County), Centreville — C-20 — First Battle of Manassas |
| | McDowell gathered his forces here, July 18, 1861, to attack Beauregard, who lay west of Bull Run. From here a part of the Union army moved north to cross Bull Run and turn the Confederate left wing, July 21, 1861. This movement brought on the battle. — Map (db m409) |
| Virginia (Fairfax County), Centreville — C-42 — Panic at Cub Creek Bridge |
| | First Battle of Manassas. In the afternoon of 21 July 1861, after Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's and Brig. Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard's Confederates defeated Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell's Union army, the bridge over Cub Run was jammed with retreating Federal soldiers as well as civilians who had come to watch the battle. Capt. Delaware Kemper's Confederate artillery fired a few parting rounds toward the bridge, and one shell burst directly overhead. The crowd panicked and upset a wagon, thereby . . . — Map (db m413) |
| Virginia (Fairfax County), Centreville — C-23 — The Stone Bridge |
| | Originally built of native sandstone in 1825, the turnpike bridge over Bull Run became an important landmark in the Civil War battles at Manassas. Union Brig. Gen. Danial Tyler's division feigned an attack on Col. Nathan G. Evans's brigade guarding the bridge as the First Battle of Manassas began on the morning of 21 July 1861. When the confederates withdrew from the region, they blew up the bridge on 9 Mar. 1862. The rear guard of Maj Gen John Pope's retreating army, defeated at the Second . . . — Map (db m420) |
| Virginia (Prince William County), Gainesville — C 31 — Bull Run Battlefields |
| | Just to the east were fought the two battles of Manassas or Bull Run. — Map (db m2013) |
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