John Quincy Marr
| John Quincy Marr | |
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Marr in 1849
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| Born |
May 27, 1825 Warrenton, Virginia |
| Died | June 1, 1861 (aged 36) Fairfax Court House, Virginia |
| Buried at | Warrenton, Virginia |
| Allegiance |
 Confederate States of America
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| Service/branch |
 Confederate States Army
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| Years of service | 1861 |
| Rank |
 Captain
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| Unit | Warrenton Rifles company |
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John Quincy Marr (May 27, 1825 – June 1, 1861) was a Virginia militia company captain and the first Confederate soldier killed by a Union soldier in combat in the American Civil War. Marr was killed at the Battle of Fairfax Court House, Virginia on June 1, 1861. He had been a delegate to the Virginia Secession Convention and ultimately supported secession of Virginia from the Union after initially opposing it.
John Q. Marr was born on May 27, 1825 in Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia. He was the son of Catherine Inman Horner Marr (1797-1879) and John Marr, Esq. (1788-1848), who had married in 1816. The elder John Marr was the grandson of a French immigrant with the surname "La Mar." The elder John Marr had been a Commissioner in Chancery in the Supreme and County Courts, much like a court-appointed trustee in later times, as well as a justice of the peace. He owned enslaved black persons, as would his widow and son John Q. Marr by 1860.
John Quincy Marr graduated second in the class of 1846 from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). However,his father died on June 3, 1848, and his elder brother Robert Athelstan Marr (1823-1854) was a naval officer. Although John Q. Marr taught at VMI as an assistant professor of mathematics and tactics after graduating, he returned home in 1848 to care for his mother and sisters Sarah/Sally (1819-1895), Margaret (1830-1903), Francis (1835-1918) and Jane (1840-1927), since his younger brothers Thomas Scott Marr (1830-1897) and James Ripon Marr (1832-1879) left home by 1850. The local judges gave him the same appointments held by his father; Marr also served a two-year term as sheriff of Fauquier County.
After John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Marr organized the "Warrenton Rifles" militia company.
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