In a two volume book The Elk Run Valley - A History 1688-1800 by Joan W. Peters, she identifies the soldiers and officers who came from this area and fought in the French and Indian War. Later in the book she also lists those soldiers and officers serving in the various local militias who fought in the American Revolutionary War. 

The author has given permission to list the soldiers and officers from Elk Run Valley who fought in these two wars. The general geographical boundaries of the Elk Run Valley encompassed in these books includes an area bounded by the Prince William County Line in the East, the Stafford County Line in the South, 2-3 miles west of Rte 610 (Midland Road) in the West, and 3-4 miles south of Rte 28 in the North. 

Culpeper Minute Battalion Officers & Soldiers from Elk Run Valley 

Private Samuel Baker 
Private David Blackwell 
Private Joseph Blackwell, 
Captain William Blackwell 
Private William Bronaugh Jr. 
Lieutenant Peter Conway 
Private John Grant 
Lieutenant William Nelson 
Private Daniel Orear 
Sergeant George Seaton 
Prince William Minute Battalion 
Private David Wickliffe 

French & Indian War Officers and Soldiers from Elk Run Valley 

Captain John Ashby Sr. 

Captain/Lieutenant/Colonel William Blackwell 

Ensign /Lieutenant/Captain William Bronaugh 

Ensign Benjamin Bullitt

Cadet/Lieutenant/Captain Thomas Bullitt

John Combs, soldier 

Lieutenant William Conway 

Thomas Conway, soldier 

Moses Coppage, soldier 

Captain John Crump 

John Edwards, soldier 

Captain/Major William Eustace 

John Finnie, soldier 

Captain William Grant 

Major/Colonel Thomas Harrison 

Captain Lynaugh Helms 

Captain John James 

Jeffrey Johnson, soldier 

George Turberville Kenner, Militia Officer 

Captain/Major Howson Kenner 

Edward Lawrence, soldier 

John Luttrell, soldier 

Samuel Luttrell, soldier 

John Markham, soldier & POW, 1761 

John Pope 

Lieutenant Thomas Raley 

George Seaton, soldier

Lieutenant James Seaton 

Francis Triplett, soldier, wounded in skirmish 

Ensign Original Young, Dunmore's War, 1774 

Tobias Wood, soldier

Sergeant John Combs 

Virginia Continental Line Officers & Soldiers from the Elk Run Valley 

Ensign/Lieutenant Nathaniel Ashby, 3rd Virginia Regiment 

Private Moses Baker, 3rd Virginia Regiment 

Private/Sergeant Major & Adjutant Richard Eustace Beale, 3rd Virginia

Lieutenant/Captain John Blackwell, 3rd Virginia (later Major & General, Virginia Militia) 

Joseph Blackwell (later Quartermaster & Major, Fauquier Militia)

Cadet Joseph Blackwell, 3rd Virginia, Lieutenant/Captain, 10th Virginia (later Colonel, Fauquier County Militia) 

Soldier/Sergean/Ensign, Thomas Blackwell, 1st Virginia Captain, 10th Virginia Lieutenant Colonel, Fauquier Militia 

Captain William Blackwell, 11th Virginia (formerly Captain, Culpeper Minute Battalion) 

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Bullitt, (later Adjutant General, Virginia Troops)

Private John Coppage, 3rd Virginia 

Fauquier County Militia Officers & Soldiers from the Elk Run Valley 

Private Richard Luttrell, Captain Benjamin Harrison's Company & Ensign, Captain Thomas Conway's Company

Private Robert Luttrell, Captain John Ball's Company 

Private Rodham Luttrell, Captain Benjamin Harrison's Company 

Sergeant Reuben Murray, Captain Turner Morehead's Company

Ensign Joseph Nelson 

Ensign Thomas Nelson 

Ensign Benjamin Pope

Captain William Pope

Lieutenant John Peters

Lieutenant Hubbard Prince 

Private/Sergeant George Seaton, Captain Benjamin Harrison's Company

Ensign William Seaton 

Private Armistead Shumate, Captain Thomas Helm's Company 

Berryman Shumate, Captain Thomas Helm's Company 

Lieutenant Daniel Shumate, resigned 1781 

Private Samuel Shumate, Captain Samuel Blackwell's Company 

Private Philip Spiller, Captain John Ball's Company 

Captain Francis Triplett Captain William Triplett's Cavalry, Fauquier County Militia 

Ensign Rodham Tulloss

Ensign William Wickliffe 

Private James Wood, Captain Benjamin Harrison's Company 

Peters, Joan W. Brent Town & the Elk Run Valley A History: Volume One: From Acquisition to Settlement 1688-1800 and “Brent Town & the Elk Run Valley A History: Volume Two