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Military Railroad Terminus VA1745 |
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 Picture courtesy of Scott Roth
Half a mile west is the terminus of the Centreville Military Railroad, the first railroad in the world constru ted exclusively for military purposes. Built by the Confederate army late in 1861 because of impassable roads, it supplied the soldiers in their winter camps at Cetnreville. Trains from Manassas Junction ran here until March 1862 when Confederate forces withdrew southward. Nearby on 9 Dec. 1862, Privates Michael O’Brien and Dennis Corcoran of Maj. Chatham R. Wheat’s "Louisiana Tigers" were court-martialed for mutiny, executed by a firing squad from their own company, and buried. In 1979 their remains were reinterred at the St. John’s Episcopal Church cemetary in Centreville.
Department of Historic Resources 1998
US 28S, near intersection of New Braddock Rd. Fairfax County Virginia.
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