"Following the Battle of Ox Hill (Chantilly) on 1, Sept. 1862. Gen. Robert E. Lee pondered his options and strategy. Encouraged by Confederate victories and Federal disorganization, Lee acted quickly to continue the offensive. On 3, Sept. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia marched north toward Leesburg from where it could cross into Maryland flank the Washington fortification and edge the Union army out of Virginia. The troops of Maj. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson and James Longstreet moved north on Ox Road past Frying Pan and Herndon Station to Dranesville. The army concentrated around Leesburg and forded the Potomac into Maryland Sept. 4-7.
Photographs courtesy of "Big Mike" Muckenthaler featuring Pam Muckenthaler (November 2003)
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This photographic shows the combined markers B13 and B29 at the entrance of Ox Hill Battlefield Park.