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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BC3_vint-hill-farms-station_Warrenton-VA.html
In June 1942 the U.S. Army established a top-secret post at Vint Hill Farms to intercept enemy radio transmissions. These barns housed the monitoring station. The Signal Corps' cryptographic school, which taught personnel to encode, decode, and tr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4W6_colonial-road_Warrenton-VA.html
This crossroad is the ancient Dumfries-Winchester highway. Over it William Fairfax accompanied George Washington, then a lad of sixteen, on his first visit to Lord Fairfax at Greenway Court. It was on this occasion that Washington assisted in surv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4VZ_buckland-races_Warrenton-VA.html
For Gen. J.E.B. Stuart and his Confederatecavalry, the 1863 campaigns brought fewervictories against the improving cavalry corpsof the Union Army of the Potomac—that is,until October 19, 1863. Here on Chestnut Hill the wilyConfederate had…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2MU_second-manassas-campaign_Warrenton-VA.html
Eight miles southeast, at Bristoe (then Bristoe Station), Maj. Gen. Ambrose P. Hill's division of Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's corps destroyed the Orange & Alexandria Railroad bridges over Kettle Run and Broad Run on 27 Aug. 1862. The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXW_battle-of-coffee-hill-second-battle-of-auburn_Warrenton-VA.html
During the early morning of 14 Oct. 1863, just northwest of here, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart and two cavalry brigades, cut off from the Army of Northern Virginia by Federal infantry, attacked Union Brig. Gen. John C. Caldwell's forces as they brewed …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3U_fredericksburg-campaign_Warrenton-VA.html
Because he had moved too slowly to attack Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan was relieved of his command of the Army of the Potomac by President Abraham Lincoln. McClellan was replaced by Maj. Gen. Ambros…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3T_mcclellans-farewell_Warrenton-VA.html
After President Abraham Lincoln relieved Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan of command of the Army of the Potomac on 7 Nov. 1862, the general composed a farewell order. It was read to the army by divisions on 10 Nov. when the new commander, Maj. Gen. A…
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