The Battle of Ox Hill

(Kiosk Panel): Wounds Suffered at Ox Hill (Chantilly)

September 1, 1862

Union Soldiers

4th Maine, 2nd Brigade (Birney), Kearny’s Division:

Pvt. Lorenzo E. Dickey, Co. A, Age 21: At Chantilly, received gunshot would in right thigh. Taken to a field ...

Confederate Hospital

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During the War Between the States, 1861-1865, 155 Confederate soldiers, wounded in the Battle of Atlanta and evacuated, died in several improvised hospitals in Barnesville. This marks the site of the main hospital. A marble headstone marks each soldier’s grave ...

The Battle of Ox Hill

(Kiosk Panel): Sequel to Second Manassas

The Battle of Ox Hill, September 1, 1862

The Confederate victory at Second Manassas (August 28-30, 1862) forced Union General John Pope’s Army of Virginia to retreat to the heights of Centreville. To dislodge ...

War Between the States

1861-1865

The following Penna. Commands

were organized and recruited

entirely or in part in Franklin County.

2nd Regt. Inf. – Co’s. A. B. C. • 35th Regt. Inf. – 6th Reserves Co. D. • 41st Regt. Inf. – 12th Reserves Co. K. • 43rd ...

Battle of “Ten Islands”

¼ mile above Neely Henry Dam

On July 14, 1864 a small group of brave Confederate Cavalry under General James H. Clanton approximately 300 strong were overwhelmed by a vastly superior Union Cavalry force under General L. H. Rousseau. The Confederates ...

Jefferson Davis at the Lanier House

On May 4, 1865, Jefferson Davis arrived in Washington, Georgia (100 miles NE), where he performed what proved to be his last duties as President of the Confederate States of America. Shortly thereafter, with a small staff and escort, he ...

S.S. Oklahoma and Esso Baton Rouge

Attacked by U-123

After midnight on April 8, 1942, the German submarine U-123 was in position off the St. Simons Island sea buoy. Minutes later it chased and torpedoed two tankers, the Oklahoma and Esso Baton Rouge, killing twenty-two crew members. ...

The Battle of New Market

May 15, 1864

In the spring of 1864, Union Gen. Franz Sigel marched his 10,000-man army south through the Shenandoah Valley as part of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s strategy to attack the Confederacy on several fronts simultaneously. To counter this threat, ...

Mooney Flat Hotel

1856 – 1958

Site of the first 3 story team & stage stop on the Henness Pass route to the Northern Mines & Comstock Lode. Built & operated by George & Veronica Schmidt served miners, travelers & teamsters.

Marker is on Mooney ...

The Battle of Ox Hill

(Kiosk Panel): Ox Hill Battlefield Park & Interpretive Trail

This small park is the last remnant of Fairfax County’s only major Civil War battlefield. The Battle of Ox Hill, also known as the “Battle of Chantilly,” lasted but a few ...