Chapman's Mill

John Singleton Mosby & Thoroughfare Gap

Fighting between Colonel John S. Mosby's Confederate partisans and various Union detachments continued in the area. Mosby's men skirmished with the Federals directly at the Gap on at least one occasion; reportedly derailed a train there on another; motivated Union commanders to garrison the pass with two companies of the 202d Pennsylvania Infantry; and inspired those same officers to force civilians, including perhaps Chapman, to ride military trains as 'insurance' against the ambushes and derailments occurring elsewhere along the Manassa's Gap Railroad.

Written by Noel Harrison