Centreville Winter Quarters- 38.8426572, -77.4266886. This open field was part of the area where the huts seen in the background of the pictures of Fort Johnston were located. There is no interpretation here.

War-time images from Winter Quarters in Centreville are shown below.

Bull Run Regional Park- Manassas– 38.8012222, -77.4907778

Manassas Park– Camp Carondelet

The entrance is off Stephanie Street at 38.7639041, -77.4248801. There is no interpretation here. This area was the winter camp for the Louisiana Brigade. Units that wintered in the area were the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th LA, the First Louisiana Battalion (General Wheat’s Special Battalion) and Bowyer’s Virginia artillery. They held a “Grand Military Ball” here on February 25, 1862.

The current site was placed on the National Register of Historic places (application) in 1989. The application states “In size, the site is approximately 850 feet on a northwest-southeast axis and 400 feet on a northeast-southwest axis (about 8 acres). Twenty-five fairly obvious hut sites, evidenced by low, rectangular, earthen mounds were mapped. Of these, twenty-one are probably single huts and four are double huts. In addition, there are fifty-three mapped features believed to be chimneys. Chimney features are mounds, usually about one to two feet above ground level, that are formed by bricks and/or large, flat rocks covered by dirt. It is believed that most of these chimneys represent the location of hut sites whose walls are more difficult to discern. If this is the case, then the camp includes about seventy-five huts. There are also a number of large depressions at the camp. Many are probably what remains of the holes dug by the Civil War soldiers when they were getting clay for their chimneys and huts. The depressions at the very southern end of the camp are believed to have been rifle pits.”

Also in the application “According to knowledgeable individuals, Wheat’s Battalion camp (locally referred to as Tiger Hill) is located to the southeast of the Louisiana camp. The Louisiana Camp was home to the 6th, 7th, 8th and/or 9th infantry regiments. Based on the number of huts and an estimated 10-12 persons per hut, the Louisiana Camp was probably occupied by one or, more likely, two or three of the above Louisiana regiments. There is a rumor of another Louisiana camp in the vicinity, but its location has not been determined.” “On December 17, 1861, the Louisiana Brigade left Camp Florida, near Centreville, and moved to their new camp named Camp Carondelet. A recorder for Company G of the 7th Louisiana Regiment noted that Camp Carondelet was on ground formerly called Camp Wigfall (during the summer of 1861). The Louisiana troops began building winter huts just before Christmas and completed them in mid-January 1862. In February 1862, Camp Carondelet was the scene of that winter’s Grand Military Ball.” The invitation for the ball is shown below.

The maps below were submitted with the application.

After I walked down the concrete path shown above I took the first left and begin counting the red blaze paint marks on the trees when I got to 14 I took the images below.

I was standing in the middle of an area whose perimeters are marked by downed trees. I read online that this is an area marked as the camp. I would imagine that the actual area of the camp was much larger than what is marked. The LiDAR images also suggest the camp occupied a larger area.

With the exception of the downed tree lined perimeter this area is very representative of the rest of the site.

Dumphries– the 6th NC camp and Camp Fisher (2nd and 11th MS)

Woodbridge, VA– Camp Wigfall– The Texas Brigade camp