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Historical Highway MarkersBrentmoor: The Spilman-Mosby HouseC-92
This classic Italian Villa-style house was completed in 1861 for Fauquier County judge Edward M. Spilman. James Keith, who later served as president of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1895-1916), acquired it in 1869. John Singleton Mosby purchased the dwelling in 1875. Mosby, a Confederate colonel, commanded the Partisan Rangers (43d Battalion, Virginia Cavalry), which raided Union outposts, communications, and supply lines in Northern Virginia from 1863 to 1865. Eppa Hunton, a Confederate brigadier general, lawyer, and member of the U.S. Congress (House 1873-1881 and Senate 1892-1895), bought the house in 1877 and owned it until 1902.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: BOYHOOD HOME OF COLONEL JOHN MOSBY R-50, Historical Highway Marker File, Department of Historic Resources, Richmond, Virginia; Brentmoor (Spillman-Mosby House), National Register of Historic Places Archives File (156-0014), Richmond, Virginia; Patricia L. Faust, ed., Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1986), 377; John A. Garraty and Mark Carnes, eds., American National Biography, 23 vols. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University, 1999), 13: 550-552; Eppa Hunton, Autobiography of Eppa Hunton (Richmond, William Byrd Press, 1933), 205, 232; Calder Loth, ed., The Virginia Landmarks Register, 4th. ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), 165; Dumas Malone, ed., Dictionary of American Biography (New York: Charles Scribners & Sons, 1935); Thomas S. Morris, The Virginia Supreme Court: An Institutional and Political Analysis (Charlottesville: Published for the Institute of Government, University of Virginia [by] the University Press of Virginia, 1975). |