Bailey's Crossroads Civil War Engagements

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After the First Battle of Manassas, Confederate troops led by Col. J. E. B. Stuart occupied nearby Munson's and Mason's Hills from late July until they abandoned their position about 29 Sept. 1861. Confederate troops fought skirmishers of the Union 2d and 3d Michigan Infantry around Bailey's Crossroads for several days starting 28 Aug. 1861. The Federals and Confederates suffered a small number of casualties. Union forces in Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac occupied the Bailey's Crossroads region after the Confederates retired to the Centreville area.

Department of Historic Resources, 2000

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

“Affair At Munsons Hill,” Washington Star, 30 September 1861; The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Prepared Under the Direction of the Secretary of War by Robert N. Scott, 129 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880–1901), Nan Netherton, Donald Sweig, Janice Artemel, Patricia Hickin and Patricia Reed, Fairfax County, Virginia: A History (Fairfax, County, Va.: Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, 1978), 327-334; Ross and Nan Netherton, Fairfax County in Virginia: A Pictorial History (Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Company, 1986), 64-69; Emory M. Thomas, Bold Dragoon: The Life of J. E. B. Stuart (New York: Harpers & Row, 1986), 83-92; Jane Chapman Whitt, Elephants and Quaker Guns: A History of Civil War and Circus Days (New York and Washington: Vantage Press, 1966), 39-52. .