Civilian Hardships

Throughout the Civil War, Haymarket and its residents endured the consequences of occupying an important geographical location. Marching armiespassed through the town during the First and Second Battles of Manassas,the engagement at Thoroughfare Gap, the "Buckland Races," and numerousother cavalry engagements. Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee, Thomas J."Stonewall" Jackson, James Longstreet, J.E.B. Stuart, Joseph E. Johnston, and P.G.T. Beauregard, as well as U.S. Gens. George D. Bayard, James B.Ricketts, Henry E. Davies, and George A. Custer, all passed through here.Many young local men joined the Confederate cause, serving in the 8th and17th Virginia Infantry Regiments. St. Paul's Episcopal Church (built in1802) was used as a hospital after the First and Second Battles of Manassas, as well as during the measles epidemic that swept through the Confederatecamps, west of the Mantissas Battlefield, in the Autumn of 1861.

At midnight on November 5, 1862, a few days after Confederatebushwhackers fired on U.S. troops nearby, Federals under Gen. Adolph von Steinwehr burned the entire village.Only the McCormick house remainedintact, and St. Paul's Church was amere shell. More than 120 homelesstownspeople took refuge at the churchand nearby farms. Many residentsleft Haymarket for good. Of thosewho remained, one later wrote, "We endured cold and hardships but man aged to live through it and each year continued to improve our homes." By the late 1860s, many new houses had been built. St. Paul's Church had been reconstructed within the original walls, and the town was reborn.

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Haymarket During the Civil War
Colonial Roads
Haymarket Post Office
St. Paul's, Episcopal
Second Battle of Manassas
Campaign of Second Manassas
Bull Run Battlefields
Rock Fight
The Macrae School
The Shirley Cemetery

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