Virginia Highway 7, otherwise known as The Leesburg Pike, is one of my least favorite roads. Usually clogged with commuter traffic trying to get to the ever-expanding suburban hinterlands of Loudoun county or to the sprawling concrete swirl of Tyson’s Corner, trying to cross or drive on this road is usually met with modern misery. But its important to remember that this road was not always jammed bumper to bumper with Escalades and Honda Civics. In September of 1862, the Leesburg Pike was once clogged with more than 50,000 grizzled combat veterans of Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
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