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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQT0_wilmer-mclean-after-the-civil-war_Manassas-VA.html
After nearly four years at Appomattox Court House, Wilmer McLean and his family returned to Prince William County in 1867. McLean still owned the 985-acre Yorkshire Plantation and lived there, but wartime devastation and the end of slavery brought…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNFL_mitchells-ford_Manassas-VA.html
Here on the south bank of Bull Run, Confederate forces constructed log-and-earth trenches to defend Mitchell's Ford, a strategically important crossing point. On July 17, 1861, as Union Gen. Irvin McDowell's army approached Centreville, Confederat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIVY_signal-hill_Manassas-VA.html
This elevation behind the Confederate right flank at Manassas in July1861 was one of four Confederatesignal stations established by Capt. Edward Porter Alexander; Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard's signal officer. Because the hilltop was devoid of trees, it…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8LL_battle-of-bull-run-bridge_Manassas-VA.html
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 t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4JE_conner-house_Manassas-VA.html
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 w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM48K_signal-hill-monument_Manassas-VA.html
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 B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3XR_mclean-farm-yorkshire-plantation_Manassas-VA.html
Part of an early 18th century plantation established on Bull Run by Col. Richard Blackburn formerly of Yorkshire, England, the land was acquired by Wilmer McLean in 1854. The battle which opened 1st Manassas raged across this farm July 18, 1861, w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21M_wilmer-mcleans-yorkshire_Manassas-VA.html
Yorkshire, the home of Wilmer McLean, once stood near here. McLean acquired the property through his wife's family in 1854. Located near two major fords on Bull Run, McLean's plantation became the scene of one of the Civil War's earliest actions. …