John Quincy Marr Document Signed (DS), bank draft (usual official “canceled” bank cuts) dated “Warrenton, Fauq[uier County] Va, Jany 21st 1859” to Cashier of Farmers Bank and signed John Q Marr – the  FIRST CONFEDERATE SOLDIER (and officer) KILLED IN ACTION during the Civil War. VERY RARE AUTOGRAPH. From the John A. Washington files. Extensive documentation on Marr accompanies. $900.  

John Quincy Marr was a graduate and former faculty member of the Virginia Military Institute, Marr had been sent to the field with the Warrenton Rifles, which he had raised after John Brown's raid. Col. Richard S. Ewell stationed Marr's company at the Fairfax Court House, and on June 1, 1861, Company B, 2nd U.S. Cavalry passed through the town, firing a few random shots. After a defense was prepared and the Union forces driven off, it was noticed that Marr was missing. He was later found dead from a wound in the chest. He was also a signer of the Virginia secession document. A delegate from Fauquier County, Marr was absent when the convention adopted the text on April 17 but signed the parchment at the end of the month or on May 1. The second session of the convention authorized copying his autograph from the April parchment onto lithographic copies of the ceremonial parchment that delegates signed in June. Marr came from Warrenton in Fauquier County, Virginia, the grandson of immigrants who came here from France.  His father was a Commissioner in Chancery in the Supreme and County Courts, similar to a justice of the peace in today’s nomenclature. Marr graduated from VMI, ranking second in his class.  When his father died, he was appointed to the same positions which his dad had held. Sealed tear with archival tape at top through address heading. 

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