Warrenton Cemetery is the final resting place of 986 Confederate soldiers from every Southern state, including about 650 Civil War casualties. Many wounded Confederates were evacuated to Warrenton and the surrounding area after the First and Second Battles of Manassas, and 585 died and are buried there. Their identities were lost when Union soldiers burned the wooden grave markers for firewood in the winter of 1863, and their remains were reburied there in 1877. A memorial wall constructed in 1988 lists 520 names recovered in 1996 from medical records in the National Archives. Among those buried there are Col. John Singleton Mosby, the Gray Ghost, who became famous during the war as a scout, spy, and partisan ranger leader, later practiced law locally, and was appointed U.S. Consul to Hong Kong by President Rutherford B. Hayes; Capt. John Quincy Marr, the first Confederate officer killed in the war, who died at Fairfax Court House on June 1, 1861; two of Fauquier County's four Confederate generals, William Fitzhugh Payne and Lunsford Lindsay Lomax; Samuel Chilton, defense counsel at John Brown's 1859 treason trial; John Tyler Waller, grandson of President John Tyler, killed in March 1865 fighting the 8th Illinois Cavalry; and Pendleton Ball, an enslaved teamster and physician's servant who applied for a Confederate pension.
