The Potomac Greys (Company H, 8th Virginia Infantry) and the Leesburg Cavalry (Company K, 6th Virginia Cavalry) were mainly Leesburg men, while the Loudoun Artillery and the Loudoun Guard (Company C, 17th Virginia Infantry) drew men from all over Loudoun County, including Leesburg. Many Leesburg men joined the cause of the Confederacy. Leesburg is a participant in the Virginia Civil War Trails program.
The following items highlight Leesburg's varied and precarious experience during the four years of hostilities. The next month Leesburg men overwhelmingly ratified the Ordinance with a vote of 400 to 22.īy war's end, Leesburg changed hands about 150 times over the course of the war, and had suffered not only from the frequent raids and combat in its streets but also the disintegration of civil authority. The Ordinance of Secession passed nonetheless by a vote of 88 to 55. Loudoun County's two delegates to the Virginia Secession Convention in April 1861, Leesburg attorney John Janney (whom the convention elected its president) and John Armistead Carter, voted against secession. It was strategically (or uncomfortably) near the border, located just two miles south of the Potomac River, which then divided the United States from the Confederate States of America.
Leesburg was a prosperous southern town of about 1,700 at the outbreak of the Civil War. Confederate Evacuation and First Union Occupation
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