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- WARCEM_971103_01.JPG: Warrenton; John Mosby grave
- Description of Subject Matter: Warrenton Cemetery, across the street from the visitor center off Route 17 - A dramatic new memorial to more than 600 Confederate soldiers who died in nearby makeshift hospitals stands near the grave of Confederate raider John S. Mosby.
Other burials here are obtained from http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=cem&FScemeteryid=234000 :
Chilton, Samuel (1804-1867): US Congressman. Elected to represent Virginia's 9th District in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1845 to 1847.
Lee, Charles (1758-1815): US Attorney General under President George Washington. Appointed on December 10, 1795.
Lomax, Lunsford L. (1835-1913): Major General, Confederate States Army.
Marr, John Quincy (1825-1861): Civil War Confederate Army Officer. Born in Warrenton, Virginia, he graduated 2nd in the 1846 class of the Virginia Military Institute, later, for a time he taught there, then took over management of family land holdings. In the years before the Civil War he was county treasurer, sheriff, and presiding justice of county courts. Following John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, he organized the Warrenton Rifles militia for home defense and in 1861 sat as a delegate in the Virginia secession convention. Commissioned Lieutenant Colonel on May 5, 1861, he served on garrison duty with the Warrenton Rifles at Dumfries, Bristoe Station, and Fairfax Court House. In the predawn hours of June 1, 50 men of the 2nd United States Cavalry under Lieutenant Charles H. Tompkins rode through Fairfax Court House firing their weapons. One random bullet killed him while he was standing in a clover field at the roadside; thus making him the first Confederate officer killed in the war. His body was undiscovered for a few hours, while others skirmished with the 2nd Cavalry, a few more casualties were sustained in the fighting. In 1904 he was memorialized with a stone monument at Fairfax Court House. His uniform shako cap, jacket, epaulets, overcoat and sword are in the collection of the Museum of the Confederacy, in Richmond, Virginia.
Moore, Thomas Love (1789-1862): US Congressman. Elected to represent Virginia's 10th and 15th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1820 to 1823.
Mosby, John Singleton (1833-1916): Civil War Confederate Army Officer. Organized Mosby's Rangers, 43rd VA Cavalry, was JEB Stuart's chief scout, and paved the way for Stuart's Ride around McClellan in the Peninsula campaign. Kidnapped Union General Edwin H. Stoughton at Fairfax Courthouse, VA on 3/9/1863 by slipping through enemy lines with 29 men. He disbanded his rangers on 4/20/1865 rather than surrender. He wasn't pardoned until 1866.
Payne, Gen.. William Henry Fitzhugh (1830-1904): Brigadier General, Confederate States Army; Captain of H Company "Black Horse Cavalry", Virginia 4th Cavalry; Colonel, 2nd North Carolina Cavalry; Virginia State Commonwealth's Attorney; Virginia State Legislator. After graduating from the University of Virginia and passing the Virginia Bar, Payne formed a Law partnership with Samuel Chilton, at Warrenton, Va. He was married in May 1852, to his 1st cousin once removed, Mary Elizabeth Winston Payne, daughter of Col. W. Winter Payne, who represented the Sumter district of Alabama in Congress in 1841-48. They raised 10 children. In 1856, at the age of 26, he was elected to the Office of Commonwealth's Attorney, which he held until 1869. Shortly after Virginia seceded from the Union, Payne enlisted as a private in the Confederate Army, and participated in the occupation of Harper's Ferry. Soon after he was promoted to rank of Captain in the "Black Horse Cavalry", which he held from April 26 to September 17, 1861, when he was promoted Major and assigned to Field & Staff of the 4th Virginia Cavalry. In the battle of Williamsburg, May 5, 1861, as Acting Regimental Commander, he was badly wounded, receiving as stated in General J.E.B. Stuart's report, "a very severe, and I fear, mortal wound in the face." He was also captured and was held as a Prisoner Of War for about 3 months, returning to duty early in September 1862. Payne was then promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, being assigned to the temporary command of the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry, with which he held Warrenton, Va.
Still suffering the effects from his Williamsburg wound, in November 1862 he was ordered into a hospital at Lynchburg, and given command of the troops at that post. In February 1863, he rejoined the 4th Virginia,
holding temporary command, until March 20th, 1863 when he was again given command of the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry.
In the battle of Brandy Station, June 8, 1863, the regular Regimental Commender was killed, and Payne continued to lead the regiment, and in that capacity took part in Stuart's Pennsylvania raid.
When Stuart's Cavalry Corps was confronted by Union troops, Payne with his regiment was thrown against the rear of Union General Farnsworth's brigade at Hanover, Pa. Colonel Payne's horse was killed under him, with Payne suffering a severe saber cut in his side; he again was taken prisoner. After serving time at Johnson's island, Ohio, he was exchanged. He was then promoted to Brigadier General, commanding a brigade of 3 cavalry regiments: the 5th, 6th and 15th Virginia, in the campaign in the Shenandoah Valley, including the battles of Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek.
General Payne was next transferred to Richmond and remained there during the siege, in the final operations commanding a brigade composed of the 5th, 6th & 8th Virginia Cavalry and the 36th Virginia battalion, in Munford's division. In the battle of Five Forks, April 1, 1864, he was again badly wounded, and after convalescence was sent to Richmond to rejoin the army.
During the evacuation of the city, Payne failed to reach his Corps and took refuge near his old home, where he was captured on the night of Lincoln's assassination. He again was imprisoned at Johnson's island, after the actual close of the war. Postwar he resumed the practice of law, also serving in the legislature of Virginia in the session of 1879-80. [Confederate Military History, vol. IV, p. 645]
Payne, William Winter (1807-1874): US Congressman. He was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1841 to 1847.
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