Fairfax Court House, Va. House used as a headquarters by Beauregard/McClellan (1863 LOC - LC-DIG-cwpb-03879)
From The New-York Times June 30, 1861:
WASHINGTON, Saturday, June 29.
…
THE REBEL FORCES.
Gen. BEAUREGARD’ S forces have been heard from again at Cloud’s Mills, at Springfield, and this side of Fairfax. His advance guard prowl about in squads of fifty to a hundred, who keep our pickets on the alert. It is reported to-day that there are four thousand rebels at Fairfax Court-house, but the general belief is that this number is twice as many as are there. They continue to fell trees for the purpose of blockading the road, and fortifications are still going up on their line at various points.
Lieut . H. H. DUTTON, of Mississippi, has resigned his commission in the navy, and his name has been stricken from the list. …
LEO
Springfileld “… was founded as a station of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad in 1847.” Kinda reminds me of the towns that sprung up because of the Erie Canal in my neck of the woods.
Orange and Alexandria Railroad through Culpeper Court House (1862 LOC - LC-DIG-cwpb-01078)
Orange and Alexandria Railroad “was strategically important during the Civil War (1861–65) and was arguably the most fought over railroad in Virginia.”
"Barricades on Duke Street, Erected to Protect the Orange and Alexandria Railroad from Confederate Cavalry - Alexandria, VA, 1861"
