Answer to Photo Quiz #8/12




Warrenton, Virginia

Waves of military activity, large and small, swept through Warrenton, Va. periodically. Being centrally located near two railroads in Prince William County, with troops being rushed into battle by railroad for the first time in American history.

After the McCellan’s Peninsular Campagin, Union General John Pope’s forces retreated to Warrenton and made camp. From there he moved to Cedar Mountain near the Rapidan River and suffered defeated at the Second Battle of Manassas Junction, (Bull Run), on August 29-30. After his important victories at Cedar Mountain and at the Second Battle of Manassas, Gen. Robert E. Lee launched his attack into Maryland that culminated at Sharpsburg (Antietam Creek).

Also Colonel John S. Mosby made raids in the town during the Civil War and later made his home and practiced law in Warrenton.

Warrenton’s Town Cemetery is the final resting place of 986 Confederate soldiers; some 650 are casualties of the Civil War. Here, war dead from every Confederate state lie buried alongside Fauquier County’s sons who fell near and far, from the first days of the War until nearly the last.


THEY INCLUDE:

                 



John Singleton Mosby, the Gray Ghost Famed cavalry scout, spy and partisan ranger. After the War, Warrenton lawyer, friend to President Grant and U.S. Consul in Hong Kong.

John Quincy Marr, first Confederate Officer killed. Gallant captain of the Warrenton Rifles, fell June 1, 1861 defending Fairfax Courthouse.

William Fitzhugh Payne, First commander, Fauquier’s famed Black Horse Troop, Stonewall Jackson’s escorts; after the War, the Southern Railway Co.’s general counsel.

Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, Given a command for distinguishing himself at Gettysburg; After the War, Virginia Polytechnic Institute president and commissioner of Gettysburg National Park.

Samuel Chilton, defense counsel at abolitionist John Brown’s 1859 treason trial.

John Tyler Waller, grandson of president Tyler, who fell in the War’s last days;

Pendleton Ball, (black veteran), a conscripted slave, who lived to seek and recieve a Confederate pension after the War.

- Warrenton Pike, 1862 - Warrenton Court House -

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