The photograph to your left shows a memorial stone that has recorded on it concerning out forgotten hero Captain James Fleming. It rests in the grave yard of the old Unitarian Church, sadly it has been vandalised.

The Captain enlisted in 1861 after travelling to the states from Ireland. It was during the American Civil War in 1863 when the Captain who was in charge of the union forces that day in a bloody battle in his hometown of Fairfax, the Captain was sadly fatally wounded and died that day.The inscription which concerns the captain on the grave stone reads as follows:

Also is son James Capt. in the 16th New York Volunteer Calvary who was killed at Fairfax, - --Verginia by a gang of Guerillas 8th August 1863. - - - Aged 32 years.