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By Roger Dean Meyer, January 27, 2007
Wider view of the J.E.B. Stuart at Munson's Hill Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| On Leesburg Pike (Virginia Route 7) 0.1 miles west of Lakeside View Drive, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Following the First Battle of Manassas on 21 July 1861, Col. James Ewell Brown Stuart, commander of the 1st Virginia Cavalry, moved his troopers to Fairfax Court House and then here to Munson’s Hill, the Confederate position closest to the city of . . . — — Map (db m1778) HM |
| Near North Roosevelt Street at East Broad Street (Virginia Highway 7), on the right when traveling east. |
| | At the beginning of the war, Union commanders were uncertain of Confederate intentions and military capabilities. On June 22, 1861, civilian balloonist Thaddeus S.C. Lowe inflated his racing balloon Enterprise at the Washington Gas Company . . . — — Map (db m41495) HM |
| On Park Avenue east of North Virginia Avenue, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Greek Revival house believed built in 1845 by Wm. Harvey, who bought 66.5 acres (part of 1729 248-acre Trammell grant). Outbuildings added about 1857. Name derived from trees lining lane from Leesburg Turnpike. In 1870, Joseph S. Riley bought the . . . — — Map (db m555) HM |
| On Leesburg Pike (Virginia Route 7) at Charles Street, on the right when traveling west on Leesburg Pike. Reported permanently removed. |
| | After the Union defeat on 21 July 1861 at the First Battle of Manassas, Lincoln appointed Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan as commander of the demoralized army. A superb organizer, McClellan rebuilt the army and on 20 November 1861 staged a formal . . . — — Map (db m180) HM |
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