Although several engagements occurred nearby, Greenwich escaped unscathed, in part because of the creative actions of resident Charles Green, an Englishman. Green flew the British flag over his Carpenter's Gothic home, The Lawn, built in 1855 and later burned in 1924. Three years later, he donated land for Greenwich Presbyterian Church. During the war, when Union troops threatened to appropriate it for a hospital, Green claimed it was neutral British property for use only as a church, and the Federals relented and left it untouched. Both Union and Confederate forces passed through several times in 1862 and 1863. On August 27, 1862, just before the Second Battle of Manassas, Federal divisions under Jesse Reno and Isaac Stevens, as well as Orlando Poe's brigade, bivouacked here before marching to Manassas Junction the next day in pursuit of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's force. Federal cavalry chased John S. Mosby's rangers through Greenwich on May 30, 1863, after he raided Catlett Station. Mosby made a stand two miles west with a lightweight mountain howitzer but lost the cannon and several rangers, including Bradford Smith Hoskins, a former British officer. Hoskins was carried to The Lawn, died of his wounds, and was buried in the church cemetery. Confederate A.P. Hill and Richard S. Ewell led their corps through Greenwich on October 14, 1863, pursuing the Union army as it withdrew toward the defenses of Washington. Because Hill occupied the direct road to Bristoe Station, Ewell diverted his column to a farm road he knew well, past his childhood home, Stony Lonesome. Hill's attack on the Union rear at the station resulted in a bloody Confederate defeat.