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Fauquier County was the site of many American Civil War battles. These battles included (in order) the First Battle of Rappahannock Station, the Battle of Thoroughfare Gap, the Battle of Kelly's Ford, the Battle of Aldie, the Battle of Middleburg, the Battle of Upperville, the First and Second Battle of Auburn, the Battle of Buckland Mills, and the Second Battle of Rappahannock Station.
In the 1830 federal census, Thomas Marshall owned 64 slaves in addition to the eight white people in his household. [6] In 1827 Fauquier county voters elected Thomas Marshall as one of their two delegates in the Virginia General Assembly (alongside Alexander D. Kelly) and he began his state legislative service on December 3, 1827. However ...
Arry was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, and they had seven [1] or eight children, [3] at least five of which reached adulthood. [4] One son was killed in the civil war, another died in St. Louis in 1919, and the third died in Colorado Springs in October 1925. One daughter, Mary, was born in Missouri on May 1, 1852 and married in 1882.
William "Extra Billy" Smith (September 6, 1797 – May 18, 1887) was a lawyer, congressman, the 30th and 35th Governor of Virginia, and a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. On his appointment in January 1863, at 65, Smith was the oldest Confederate general to hold field command in the war.
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Around the time Christmas was starting to become a national holiday in the late-19th century, propagandists of the Lost Cause—the myth that the Civil War was fought for states rights and not for ...
Author, Sade Green, pictured with burial site historical marker, which reads "Today and always, we honor the enslaved Hintons of the Midway Plantation, known and unknown, buried here in unmarked ...
Richmond was a hub and the largest seller of enslaved people in Virginia. [72] [73] When enslaved people were sold, it meant that communities and families were subject to being dispersed to different places. [72] It was common for people to be separated from their spouses and children, perhaps for the rest of their lives. [72]