The Stone Bridge
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pixieslayer
N 38° 49.548 W 077° 29.786
18S E 283285 N 4300406
This marker was added in 2000, and stands beside the Fairfax County/Prince William County marker. It describes the stone bridge over Bull Run, an important landmark during the Civil War.
Waymark Code: WMK0E
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 08/02/2006
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Marker 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.
Daniel Tyler's division feigned an attack on Col.
Nathan G. Evan'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 Battle of Manassas on 30 Aug. 1862. destroyed a replacement military bridge at the site. Fully reconstructed after the war, it remained in use into the 1920s.