The Ride Home – Things Along the Way

On the way home from this past weekend’s tour of the First Bull Run battlefield, my friend Mike and I stopped to take in a few other Civil War sites we didn’t cover on Saturday. Here are the Bull Run related sites:

Stone Bridge

West Side of Stone Bridge

West Side of Stone Bridge

Blackburn’s Ford – Site of the fight of 7/18/61 that would first be known as the Battle of Bull’s Run (the battle on the 21st was for a time known as the Battle of Young’s Branch)

Blackburn’s Ford Looking South

Blackburn’s Ford Looking West

Blackburn’s Ford Looking East

Piedmont Station (Delaplane, VA) – Where much of Johnston’s Army boarded trains bound for Manassas