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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 a ...More...
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1997 photos: Since 1984, I've lived in Silver Spring, Maryland.
From 1981 to 2002, photos were taken using a Pentax ME Super camera.
From 1989 to 2002, I was doing all pictures as prints (instead of slides which I had grown up on).
In 1997, at the age of 40, my photo obsession began and I started taking thousands of photos per year.
In September, 2002, I switched to digital cameras and the number of photos exploded.
Trips this year: North Carolina (Dad), Florida (Mom), using a time share in Arkansas to visit Civil War sites in Missouri, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. The Civil War became my excuse to see places I'd never been to in my life and it was a great motivator for 20 years or so.
Image quality for my pictures is variable because these are scans of slides and/or prints at varying quality/resolutions.The Great Pandemic Digitizing Project: When I was first setting up my website in August, 2000, I had decided to digitize some of my favorite pre-digital slides and prints. The scans were fairly low resolution but they were good enough. With COVID forcing me to stay indoors, I decided to rescan ALL of my pre-digital images from multiple sources (slides, prints, and negatives) at a much higher resolution and quality setting. (I digitized Dad's slides at the same time). Instead of replacing my original scans, I added the new scans to existing pages, figuring I'd select the best ones later. As a result, multiple versions of images appear on most of these early pages. At some point, I'll take the time to do a final review and get rid of the duplicates.
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