Native American settlements first occupied the lands we now know as Manassas, Virginia. Later European ... an important railroad junction connecting north, south and west. The station was later ...

Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. One thing to know is this ... 35 000 Union troops were making their way to the railroad ...

For obvious reasons, it was proper that the first so-called "invasion" of Virginia, should take ... point towards an immediate advance upon Manassas Junction. Every camp resounds with martial ...

Manassas Junction is simply the meeting place of two ... unless Government should make it the base of future operations in Virginia. Close along the railroad, near the Junction, were the ...

When D.C. area residents picture Manassas, an hour outside the District in northern Virginia, they might think ... train” that rolls through Manassas Junction around Christmastime, mixed with ...

The festivities will mark 150 years since the Virginia General Assembly granted ... significant Civil War battles on its outskirts. Manassas Junction, where the Manassas Gap and Orange and ...

As two amateur armies groped to find and fight each other across the Northern Virginia countryside ... s Confederate army located near Manassas Junction, Va., before the 90-day enlistments of ...