[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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