It was on the heights of Fairview Cemetery that Confederate cavalry pushed the Federals from Culpeper Courthouse on October 11, 1863. There is a common grave and memorial monument for Confederate soldiers. The grave of Major General A.P. Hill was recently relocated here from Richmond. Captain William Farley was once buried here.

Confederate mass grave text below is from findagrave website- Memorial to Confederates fallen in battle or to disease who were originally buried on U.S. Revolutionary Army Colonel John Jameson’s property in Culpeper. The statue stands upon the mass grave of these soldiers who were re-interred here in 1881; their names are listed on bronze plaques on each side of the memorial.

A.P. Hill’s grave from findagrave- Civil War Confederate Lieutenant General. Born in Culpeper, Virginia, he attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, where his roommate was George McClellan, future commander of the Union Army of the Potomac. Graduating in 1847, he was initially commissioned in the artillery, serving with distinction in the Mexican War and the Third Seminole War. In March 1861 he resigned from the United States Army to serve in the Confederate Army, and was immediately appointed Colonel and commander of the 13th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Promoted to Brigadier General in February 1862, he was given command of a brigade in Major General James Longstreet’s Division. In May 1862 he was promoted again, to Major General, and was placed in command of a “light” division of troops. Promoted to Lieutenant General in May 1863 after the death of General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, he was placed in command of The Army of Northern Virginia’s Third Corps, which he held until the end of the war. During the 1864-1865 siege of Petersburg, Virginia, with the lines around the city collapsing on April 2, 1865, he was killed in an encounter with a group of Union soldiers.

Captain William Farley- from findagrave- Captain Will Farley, CSA, was a Scout and Voluntary Aide-de-Camp for General JEB Stuart from May, 1862 – June 9, 1863 during the Civil War. He was born in Laurenville, South Carolina. He died during the battle of Brandy Station when a cannon ball severed his right leg. His dying wish was to be buried with his leg – his old friend he called it – and in his new coat and be sent home to his mother. He was buried in the Ashby family plot in Culpeper and later his dying wish was granted when he was disinterred and taken back to his home state of South Carolina on April 27, 2002 and buried in the Laurens City Cemetery, Laurens, South Carolina. His brand new coat was presented to him by the Confederate high command before Stuart’s review of the troops at Brandy Station. However, when he was disinterred, no brass buttons remained, which dispelled the myth of 138 years that he was buried with his coat.