Here on the afternoon of August 26, 1862 Stonewall Jackson's army destroyed the railroad and
bridge across Broad Run cutting Pope's supply line and bringing on the Second Battle of
Manassas. On October 14, 1863 A. P. Hill leading the II Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia
struck Mead's army crossing Broad Run and suffered a severe defeat from G. K. Warren's II
Corps hidden behind the railroad embankment.
Erected 1978