Col. John Jameson

Culpeper County · dedicated 2004 · Oaklawn Boulevard, 100 feet off S. Blue Ridge Avenue

Col. John Jameson (1751-1810) owned land nearby. He served as the Culpeper County court clerk (1772-1810) and a captain in the Culpeper Minute Men battalion during the Revolutionary War. In Sept. 1780, while serving under Gen. Benedict Arnold in New York, Jameson following military protocol initially sent Arnold's co-conspirator, Maj. John André to Arnold and forwarded suspicious documents found on André to Gen. George Washington. Jameson requested André's return after being swayed by Maj. Benjamin Tallmadge. Arnold the traitor escaped, but André was hanged. Jameson's property nearby, during the Civil War, became a burial ground for at least 350 soldiers, mostly Confederates, who died in Culpeper hospitals. In 1881, their remains were re-interred at Citizens' Cemetery (now Fairview Cemetery) in a mass grave marked by an 18-foot obelisk.

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