page_title: Ox Hill Battlefield Park
section_title: Stone markers
hierarchical_section_title: Ox Hill Battlefield Park / Features / Stone markers
caption_attribution_description: Kearny's Stump at en:Ox Hill Battlefield Park, in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. This was supposedly the location where en:Philip Kearny, a Union general, was killed during the en:Battle of Chantilly (or Ox Hill) during the Civil War. He is now known to have died a short distance away, but the stump (replaced with this stone marker) is part of the survey definition for a memorial plot nearby.
context_page_description: Ox Hill Battlefield Park is a site in Fairfax, Virginia, where the Battle of Ox Hill was fought during the American Civil War. It was the only major battle of the war fought in Fairfax County. The battlefield is now a public park adjacent to suburban developments and the Fairfax Towne Center shopping center, and is maintained by the Fairfax County Park Authority.
  The most prominent feature is a pair of monuments to the two Union generals killed during the battle, Isaac Stevens and Philip Kearny. Stevens was fatally shot within the area of the present-day park while Kearny was killed just to the west. There are also two Virginia historical markers placed near the park entrance commemorating the battle and aftermath.
  The park is located at 4134 West Ox Road, in Fair Lakes near Route 50, on the corner of West Ox Road and Monument Drive. It is only 4.8 acres, about 1.5% of the roughly 300 acres where the battle was fought. The rest of the battlefield has been developed with apartments, office buildings, and similar urban construction. Nevertheless, the remaining plot does hold important portions of the battle area.
context_section_description: Kearny's Stump is a granite marker in the shape of a tree stump, located a few feet away from the memorial.  The original tree stump was purported to be the spot where Kearny was killed, though he is now known to have died in a cornfield about 150 yards (140 m) away (outside the bounds of the current-day park).  The stump was however used as the origin of the survey used to define the memorial plot, so when the original stump rotted away it was replaced with a stone version.
  There is also a pile of fieldstone rocks and a quartzite boulder on the park grounds, which is believed to mark the location where General Stevens was killed.
  As of September 2008, Fairfax County Park Authority plans call for a fundraising drive to erect two large granite monuments to honor the contribution of the common soldier because only the two slain Union officers are recognized and no attention is given to the Confederate troops who fought and died there.  The Union monument will carry the name of Chantilly and the Confederate one Ox Hill.
caption: Kearny's Stump
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