Wednesday, August 22, 2012

1862 August 23 near the Rappahannock

[from the diary of Lancelot Minor Blackford of the Rockbridge Artillery]

Saturday, Aug 23/62--To night we lie again within a mile
of the main branch of the Rappahannock, in Culpeper county,
but within 1 1/2 miles of the Fauquier W. S. Springs.  We have had
a toilsome journey of about a dozen miles.  After a good nights
rest, undisturbed by rain, we moved off for this point.
We travelled unusually fast as fr as the village of
Jeffersonton 2 miles above this point.  There we halted a
couple of hours.  A few miles after starting we forded
the Hazel river, a branch of the Rappahannock, a consid-
erable stream.   At Jeffersonton I was fortunate enough to
meet with one of the residents, Mr. Davisson, whom I knew
with his family very well in Powhatan in '54-'55.  He kindly
invited me to dinner--an excellent one-which I enjoyed hugely.
and urged me to call again.  Our rations gave out last night
so the dinner was really a windfall.  Heavy rain this afternoon

MSS 5088

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