I visited the Sharpsburg battlefield in 2012. I was amazed that the Dunker Church, Burnside’s Bridge and other features were still there and that corn was still being grown in the famous Corn Field.
I’ll give you Sharpsburg; the battle wrapped around the village. I’ll sympathize that naming a battle over a geological feature instead of a town is dehumanizing. But Manassas was just a stretch of land between Centerville, Groveton and New Market.