The First Battle of Auburn was fought on October 13, 1863, between Union and Confederate forces in the American Civil War. The Confederates, led by J.E.B. Stuart, became entangled in a battle with a Union force near Warrenton. Stuart hid his forces until the Union troops moved on. The Second Battle of Rappahannock Station, a victory for Union forces in the Bristoe Campaign of the American Civil War, took place on November 7, 1863, near the village of Rappahannock Station (now Remington, Virginia), which was on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. ... October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years). ... 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar). ... The 21st Michigan Infantry, a company of Shermans veterans. ... Some Confederate soldiers The Confederate States Army (CSA) was formed in February, 1861, to defend the Confederate States of America, which had itself been formed that same year when seven southern states seceded from the United States (with four more to follow). ... The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a civil war between the United States of America, called the Union, and the Confederate States of America, a new country formed by eleven Southern states that declared their independence and claimed the right of secession from the Union. ... James Ewell Brown Stuart (February 6, 1833 – May 12, 1864) was an American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate Army general during the American Civil War. ...
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According to the legend, an Auburn student, fighting at the Civil War’s Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia, was left for dead in no-man's land, that stretch of earth between the two armies that belonged to neither friend nor foe.
The man later joined Auburn’s faculty and when the train departed for Atlanta that fateful day, the instructor and the eagle, known to all Auburn people as “War Eagle” because of the circumstances which brought the man and eagle together, were on the train.
Since Auburn athletes were, in the early days, men from the Plains, it was only natural for newspaper headline writers to shorten that to "Plainsmen." However, today as in days of old, the term "Plainsman" or "Plainswoman" always refers to Auburn students, never to a sports team or mascot.
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