Culpeper in Culpeper County, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)

Culpeper Minute Battalion

1775-1776

Photographed by Evan Dwyer, October 25, 2025

1. Culpeper Minute Battalion 1775-1776 Marker

Inscription. Col. Lawrence Taliaferro - Orange County
Lt. Col. Edward Stevens - Culpeper County
Maj. Thomas Marshall - Fauquier County

Culpeper County Companies
Abraham Burford's
John Jameson's
William McClanahan's
John William's

Fauquier County Companies
William Blackwell's
John Chilton's
William Pickett's
James Scott's

Orange County Companies
William Payne's
Joseph Spencer's

Regular Rifle Companu
John Green's

Hampton - Great Bridge - Norfolk

Erected 2020.

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Colonial Era • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Revolutionary.

Location. 38° 28.548′ N, 78° 0.02′ W. Memorial is in Culpeper, Virginia, in Culpeper County. It can be reached from North Blue Ridge Avenue. Monument is in Yowell Meadow Park. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 226 North Blue Ridge Avenue, Culpeper VA 22701, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the Washington Metropolitan Area

and in Northern Virginia.

It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Upper

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South,

and in the Mid-Atlantic.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: What Did The Minute-Men Accomplish? (here, next to this marker); Who Were The Culpeper Minute-Men? (here, next to this marker); Major Gabriel Long (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Yowell Meadow Park (about 400 feet away); Mountain Run Watershed (about 600 feet away); The Civil War (approx. 0.2 miles away); a different marker also named The Revolutionary War (approx. 0.2 miles away); Vietnam War Memorial (approx. 0.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Culpeper.

Other markers no longer nearby. The Revolutionary War (was about 800 feet away but has been replaced with another marker now near it); a different marker also named The Civil War (was approx. 0.2 miles away

Culpeper Minute Battalion Monument image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Evan Dwyer, October 25, 2025

2. Culpeper Minute Battalion Monument

but has been replaced with another marker now near it).

More about this memorial. The monument shares a paver setting with a Charters of Freedom display.

Regarding Culpeper Minute Battalion. This is the third monument to the Culpeper Minutemen in Culpeper. The battalion existed only briefly as originally constituted, but gave its name to other units of Culpeper fighting men through World War II. The monument's large bolded locations across the bottom of the stone are the three 1775 battles the Minutemen fought prominently in - Hampton (defending the town from the shore by sniping British riflemen and gunners on their ships in the river), Great Bridge (holding the Great Bridge in modern Chesapeake - a critical link between Norfolk and the resources and personnel of lower Virginia and North Carolina - against British attempts to rush up the causeway and seize control of the road, the first major land battle of the war in Virginia), and Norfolk (fighting Dunmore's efforts to re-capture Norfolk, like Hampton a primarily shore-based versus waterborne opponent scenario).

Of the commanders named on the monument, Stevens and Jameson

Charters of Freedom image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Evan Dwyer, October 25, 2025

3. Charters of Freedom

The Culpeper Minute Battalion Monument shares a plaza with this display, installed at the same time.

are buried in Culpeper's Masonic Cemetery.

One of the two other Minutemen monuments is also effectively within Yowell Meadow Park, accessed by following the walking trail south from this monument and branching off to the right at the nature trail fork. The other monument is on the western approach to the town.

Related markers. Click here for a list of markers that are related to this marker. These are the other Minutemen Monuments in Culpeper.

Charters of Freedom - Declaration of Independence image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Evan Dwyer, October 25, 2025

4. Charters of Freedom - Declaration of Independence

The left/west side of the Charters of Freedom display.

Charters of Freedom - Bill of Rights image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Evan Dwyer, October 25, 2025

5. Charters of Freedom - Bill of Rights

The Right/east side of the Charters of Freedom display.

Charters of Freedom Tablet image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Evan Dwyer, October 25, 2025

6. Charters of Freedom Tablet

This tablet accompanies the document facsimiles displayed with the Culpeper Minute Battalion Monument.

Credits. This page was last revised on December 22, 2025. It was originally submitted on December 21, 2025, by Evan Dwyer of Richmond, Virginia. This page has been viewed 68 times since then and 22 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on December 21, 2025, by Evan Dwyer of Richmond, Virginia. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.