History of Confederate Warrenton

and the Black Horse Camp

 

Warrenton is the largest town in our Fauquier County, not to mention the County Seat of Government.  Warrenton is the post war home of Colonel John Singleton Mosby.

 

Warrenton was also the home of General/U.S. Senator Eppa Hunton, General/Governor William "Extra Billy" Smith and General William Henry Fitzhugh Payne.  General Lunsford Lindsay Lomax was a farmer near Warrenton after the WBTS.

 

In Warrenton's town cemetery, rest the remains of almost 900 Confederate Soldiers, approximately 600 having died in that great struggle.  There are two Confederate Generals, William Henry Fitzhugh Payne and Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, buried there.

 

Captain John Quincy Marr, the FIRST Confederate soldier to die in the War Between the States rest in his home town, Warrenton, cemetery.  We must not forget Warrenton as the final resting place of Colonel John S. Mosby.

 

There are two other incorporated towns in our county, first, the Town of Remington, formerly Rappahannock Station.  It was the site of the meetings for the original Black Horse Camp.  Additionally, numerous fights for the railroad, the Rappahannock River and access to Culpeper were conducted here.  Second, The Plains, site of the first Union excursion into our county and through which passed General Lee on the march to the Battle of Second Manassas.

 

Please recognize the fact that Delaplane, formerly Piedmont Station, not a town, just a post office, was the location where the first troops ever transported into battle by train embarked on their great expedition.  An unmarked grave there is the final resting place for Lt. James F. "Big Yankee" Ames of Mosby's Rangers.

 

I would be remiss not to mention Upperville, site of General Stuart's delaying cavalry battle in June of 1863.  His action concealed the Confederate Army's move toward what would eventually be the Battle of Gettysburg.  Upperville's Ivy Hill Cemetery is the final resting place for some of those casualties.  In addition, that beautiful village cemetery is the final resting place for Dr. Francis Land Galt, Surgeon aboard the CS Alabama, and Capt. Bowles W. Armistead, brother to General Lewis Armistead.

 

Submitted by Dink  Godfrey

Commander, Black Horse Camp # 780