J.E.B. Stuart at Munson’s Hill (Historical Marker)
GPS Coordinates: 38.8589976, -77.1448003
Here follows the inscription written on this roadside historical marker:
J.E.B. Stuart at Munson’s Hill
Following the First Battle of Manassas on 21 July 1861, Col. James Ewell Brown Stuart, commander of the 1st Virginia Cavalry, moved his troopers to Fairfax Court House and then here to Munson’s Hill, the Confederate position closest to the city of Washington. From his camp Stuart watched Union observers ascend in balloons to study him. Stuart built “Quaker cannons” of logs and marched his men before large campfires to confound the Federals. On 24 September, while still encamped here, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general.
Erected 1992 by Department of Historic Resources. (Marker Number T-39.)