The 2 1/4-mile Stuart's Hill loop trail crosses the ground where General James Longstreet launched a massive Confederate counterattack late on the afternoon of August 30, 1862. After intense fighting on Chinn Ridge and along the Sudley Road, General John Pope's Union army retreated back into the defenses of Washington, D.C. A 3/4-mile section leads directly to the Brawner Farm battlefield. After the Brawner fight on the evening of August 28, 1862, Rufus King's Union division retreated down a farm lane past the John Y. Cundiff and William M. Lewis houses to Manassas Junction, taking along the wounded they could carry from the temporary medical aid station at the Cundiff house.