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Death of 2d Lt. James Big Yankee Ames
Winchester Rd,
VA ,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
38° 55' 6.089628",
-77° 55' 26.325624"
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Virginia State
Historical Marker
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Sergeant James F. Ames of the 5th New York Cavalry deserted the Union army in Feb. 1863 and joined Lt. Col. John S. Mosby's Partisan Rangers (later 43d Cavalry Battalion). Nicknamed Big Yankee, Ames rose to the rank of 2d lieutenant. On the night of 8 Mar. 1863 he guided Mosby's Rangers on the Fairfax Court House raid in which Mosby captured Union Brig. Gen. Edwin Stoughton. On 9 Oct. 1864 a Federal soldier shot and killed Ames on the road leading to Benjamin Cook Shacklett's house. The Union soldier was killed by Ranger Pvt. Ludwell Lake, Jr. Ames was buried nearby in an unmarked grave. Mosby said of Ames, I never had a more faithful follower.
Last updated: 2/14/2015 15:17:00 |
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Related Themes: C.S.A., Confederate States of America, Confederacy, Union States
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