Long Weekend
3 days · ~240 miles · from Alexandria / DC
The Northern Virginia war loop, run counterclockwise so the history happens in order — First Manassas to Jackson's deathbed.
This trip chains: Bull Run to the Bloody Angle
Henry Hill at opening (beat the school buses), Second Manassas' Deep Cut, then US 50 west: Aldie Mill, Middleburg lunch, Upperville's stone walls. Overnight Warrenton near Mosby's grave.
Brandy Station's Graffiti House (check hours), Cedar Mountain's quiet, then the Wilderness and Ellwood's arm grave, Chancellorsville's flank-attack woods. Overnight Fredericksburg; walk the Sunken Road at dusk.
Chatham Manor over the river, Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle in morning silence, the Stonewall Jackson Death Site at Guinea — then home via US 1, no interstate required.