After a wonderful holiday weekend visiting friends in Crofton, MD (a town nestled between DC and Baltimore). We headed to Manassas (aka Bull Run) Battlefield to spend our Memorial day properly- looking at memorials. We arrived a bit late in the day, around 4pm. This was due to an accidental poor route choice, where, instead of going around DC on memorial day- we tried to go directly through it. In the parking lot that was Pennsylvania Ave, I did get some cool pictures of some of the more attractive buildings in DC:
After arriving (finally) at the battlefield we caught the last tour of the day. A 45 minute short "hike" that explored the first battle of Manassas. I wish all civil war battles were so easy to understand! We were able to view all the major points of the first battle of Manassas in 45 minutes of stop and go walking. The second battle of Manassas on the other hand took a 3 hour 18 mile car trip to hit the major stops. Your quick history lesson: The first battle on Manassas was the first major battle of the civil war. Most people thought it would be the ONLY battle of the civil war, so they came out to watch. Well they were wrong. The Confederates won. The Confederates also won round two at Manassas.
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| The Henry House- kinda in the middle of all the fighting. |
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| There's a bluebird on my.... cannon? That was captured by the Confederates? Do'oh! |
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