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This Virginia Civil Wars Trails historical marker is next to the main entrance gates of Warrenton Cemetery at the intersection of West Lee Street and South Chestnut Street in the historic district of the town of Warrenton. It reads:
"The gate to your right opens to Warrenton Cemetery, the final resting place of 986 Confederate soldiers, of every Southern state, about 650 casualties of the Civil War. Many wounded Confederates were evacuated to Warrenton and vicinity after the First and Second Battles of Manassas, and 585 died and are buried here. Their identities were lost when Union soldiers burned the wooden grave markers for firewood in the winter of 1863. Their remains were reburied here in 1877. The memorial wall was constructed in 1998, listing 520 names recovered in 1996 from medical records in the National Archives.
The most famous Confederate officer buried here, Col. John Singleton Mosby—the Gray Ghost—gained fame during the war as a scout, spy, and partisan ranger leader. After the war, he practiced law locally, and President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him U.S. Consul to Hong Kong.
Capt. John Quincy Marr, the first Confederate officer killed in the war, who died in an engagement at Fairfax Court House on June 1, 1861, is buried here. Two of Fauquier County’s four Confederate generals are also interred here: William Fitzhugh Payne, commander of Fauquier County’s famed Black Horse Troop, and Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, a cavalry commander at Gettysburg who later served as commissioner of Gettysburg National Military Park.
Other notables include Samuel Chilton, defense counsel at abolitionist John Brown’s 1859 treason trial; John Tyler Waller, President John Tyler’s grandson, killed in March 1865 fighting the 8th Illinois Cavalry; and Pendleton Ball, enslaved teamster and physician’s servant, who applied for a Confederate pension."
Courtesy Dwayne & Maryanne Moyers, Realtors
Male Northern Harrier, Point Reyes. I have been birding and photographing birds for a little over a year and had hoped to be able to capture one of my favorite birds: a male Norther Harrier. I got lucky when this harrier came up the bluff towards me
Look at me go!!!!!!!! & with a smile on my face!
Kia has come along way in the last 12 weeks!
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I loved this old rusty gate and it was just an awesome accesory for the pics of the girls
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Painting and bronze bust taken several years ago at the National Infantry Museum in Columbus Georgia
Look at that shiny coat! Buddy looks great! We knew that it would just be time.... we are going to go say hi to the vet just to show them the difference.. I spoke to them on the phone today & they can't believe it :o)
Buddy & I are going to go meet a possible family for him on Friday... they used to have a weim but lost her 2 years ago to old age she was 13. They are now ready to have another gray kid in their life so we will see if it is the right fit. Keep your fingers crossed for us :)
An hour and a half after sunrise and much heavier fog than I had expected. I don't think I've ever seen a male Northern Harrier perched for so long, fluffed up against the cold. Took me a while to wrap my brain around the ID.
My wife's family was visiting from out of state. We decided to visit Southport, NC on Saturday. Photo taken from the shore of the Cape Fear River in Southport. Near the end of our visit, a Brunswick County Sheriff boat accompanied a tow boat towing a sailboat.
Plaque in Warrenton, VA dedicated to the history of Civil War Confederate Col. John Singleton Mosby aka the Gray Ghost. It was President Abraham Lincoln who named Mosby "The Gray Ghost." The Union Army's biggest fear in Washington was that Mosby would kidnap Lincoln from right beneath their nose. Lincoln, upon hearing several of his generals discussing Mosby and their fears, loudly announced, "Listen to you men, you speak of Mosby as though he is a ghost, a gray ghost." It wasn't until after the war that Mosby learned of this and that the nickname stuck.
A male "Gray Ghost" northern harrier hunts along the railroad tracks at Bay Point Regional Shoreline.