VA-B21 Delaplane (Formerly Piedmont Station)

Marker text: 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.

Erected by the Piedmont Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy 1981

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Location: US 17 (northbound) at Delaplane. Marker is located just to the east of the roadway at the railroad tracks., Fauquier County, Virginia

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