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Delaplane
(Formerly Piedmont Station)
On July 19, 1861 Stonewall Jackson's brigade of General Joseph E. Johnston's corps marched to this station from Winchester. They crowded into freight and cattle cars and travelled to the 1st Battle of Manassas. The use of a railroad to carry more than ten thousand troops to the Manassas battlefield gave striking demonstration of the arrival of a new era in military transport and contributed significantly to the Confederate victory there.
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By Train To Manassas
First Manassas Campaign
Here at Piedmont Station (now Delaplane) trains were used for the first time in history to move troops to impending battle. On July 19, 1861 the fields surrounding this stop on the Manassas Gap Railroad -- which appeared then almost exactly as they do today -- were filled with thousands of volunteer soldiers, members of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's Confederate Army of the Shenandoah. A single steam locomotive was on hand to move the army to Manassas Junction, then threatened with Federal attack. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson's 1st Brigade, ordered here from their bivouac in the meadows just south of Paris, were loaded onto freight and cattle cars for the first transport, which took eight hours to cover the 30 miles to Manassas.
Sunday morning. July 21, Jackson's troops marched from Manassas Junction to Henry House Hill to participate in the first major battle of the Civil War. There Jackson would earn the immortal title "Stonewall."
That same day the final brigade to leave this station was delayed en route when the train collided with an unspecified obstruction. Suspecting sabotage by railroad officials, the Confederates held a military trial, found the conductor guilty of bribery and intentionally wrecking the train, and executed him on the spot.
- Wikipedia Description: Delaplane, Virginia
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Delaplane is a small unincorporated village in Fauquier County, Virginia. It is located along U.S. Route 17, and is off Interstate 66. It is south of Upperville, north of Hume, east of Markham and west of The Plains. It has a ZIP Code of 20144.
History:
Delaplane was originally known as Piedmont Station, so called because of the rail station there on the Manassas Gap railroad. In 1861, during the First Battle of Manassas, Stonewall Jackson marched his troops from Winchester to Piedmont Station, where he loaded them on rail cars headed for Manassas Junction so they could make it in time for the battle there. This marked the first time a railroad had been used to move troops into battle.
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