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23 Δεκ 2022 · The Civil War Comes to Occoquan. DECEMEBER 12, 1861 – USS Harriet Lane and USS Stepping Stones. USS Stepping Stones was a steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the early part of the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy first as a dispatch boat, and also as a gunboat assigned to patrol Confederate waterways.
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Occoquan, which grew around a mill constructed in 1755, was the site of an important river crossing for troops during the Civil War, as the principal road between Alexandria and Fredericksburg passed through the town. From this point a pontoon bridge stretched across the Occoquan River in June 1863.
9 Οκτ 2024 · Due to Virginia's location along the border, Virginia was the most contested battleground of the American Civil War, with numerous campaigns, battles, and skirmishes occurring in the state.
5 Αυγ 2021 · Two of the Civil War’s most impactful battles took place a year apart on the same farmsteads along Bull Run. Both had major implications for the country and the local population. The Battle of First Manassas (or Bull Run) exemplified the amateur nature of both armies at the war’s outset.
1804 The 31 acre tract of Occoquan was laid out with streets and lots and formally named. 1805 The Great Southern Mail Route was authorized through Occoquan. During the Civil War, Alexandria and Washington were blockaded and Occoquan was one of the last post offices in which mail could be sent between the north and south.
It was destroyed during the Civil War by the Union Army. Early 1800's Occoquan consisted of: 50 dwellings, bake houses, several mercantile shops, saw mills, a cotton factory, hotels and lodging establishments, 2 flour and grist mills, eaterys and barrooms, forges, active shipping of railroad ties by river barge.
2 Ιαν 2015 · Outside the Civil War Trails sign explains the Battle of Dumfries, which was the first of many skirmishes during the Christmas Raid. Here in Dumfries, the Union supply base was the target of Fitz and Rooney Lee’s cavalry while Wade Hampton’s wing continued northward towards Occoquan.
