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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFVE_campaign-of-second-manassas_Marshall-VA.html
Here Lee and Longstreet, on their way to join Jackson, then at Bristoe Station, camped on August 26, 1862.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDLL_number-18-school_Marshall-VA.html
After the Civil War, the constitution of 1869 established a statewide system of free public schools in Virginia. Several new schools in Fauquier were identified by an assigned number. Number 18 was built on land donated by Samuel F. Shackleford. F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17B_rector-house_Marshall-VA.html
Here at Rector's Crossroads on June 10, 1863 Major John S. Mosby officially established Company A, 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry, known as Mosby's Rangers.
It was here on June 23, 1863 that General J.E.B. Stuart set up headquarters and recei…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17A_rectors-crossroads_Marshall-VA.html
(Preface): After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's stunning victory at Chancellorsville in May 1863, he led the Army of Northern Virginia west to the Shenandoah Valley, then north through central Maryland and across the Mason-Dixon Line into Pennsy…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA9_welbourne_Marshall-VA.html
One mile northwest stands Welbourne (ca. 1770), which has housed members of the same family since the 1830s. It is a significant example of a late-18th-century stone farmhouse that evolved into an imposing mansion. Welbourne was the home of Col. R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA7_mosbys-rangers_Marshall-VA.html
Here at Atoka (Rector's Crossroads) on June 10, 1863, Company "A", 43rd Battalion of Partisan Rangers, known as "Mosby's Rangers", was formally organized. James William Foster was elected Captain; Thomas Turner, First Lieutenant; W. L. Hunter, Sec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM80_birthplace-of-lt-presley-neville-o-bannon-usmc_Marshall-VA.html
Just north stood the home of William and Ann (Neville) O'Bannon, where their son, Lt. Presley Neville O'Bannon, was born about 1776. O'Bannon, a Marine, was the first American to command U.S. forces on foreign soil and the first to raise the Ameri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7Z_campaign-of-second-manassas_Marshall-VA.html
Near here Stonewall Jackson, after a march of twenty-six miles on his way to Bristoe Station, halted for a few hours to rest his men, August 25-26, 1862
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7Y_lees-narrow-escape_Marshall-VA.html
(Six miles southwest of this location), on the morning of 27 Aug. 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee rested at the head of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet's corps as it marched toward Thoroughfare Gap to join Lt. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's corps near Ma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7C_mosbys-rangers-disband-site_Marshall-VA.html
Here, April 21, 1865, Col. John S. Mosby disbanded his gallant partisan rangers—the Forty-Third Battalion Virginia Cavalry.