Campaign of Second Manassas
Stonewall Jackson, sent by Lee to move around Pope's retreating army at Centreville and cut if off from Alexandria, reached this place, August 31, 1862. Here Jackson turned east towards Fairfax.
Marker is on John Mosby Highway (U.S. 50) west of Pleasant Valley Road (the one in Loudoun County), on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
