The boys of '61; or, Four years of fightingPersonal observation with the army and navy, from the first battle of Bull run to the fall of Richmond . one bearing anothername. When McClellan was on the Peninsula, the shadow of thewar-cloud swept past the place. One or two negroes ran away,but at that time they were not tolerated in camp. Thecampaign of 1862 left the estate unharmed. But Sheridanscavalry, followed by the Sixth Corps, in its magnificent marchfrom the North Anna, had suddenly and unexpectedly disturbedthe security of the old plantation. There was a rattling firefrom carbines, a fier
The boys of '61; or, Four years of fightingPersonal observation with the army and navy, from the first battle of Bull run to the fall of Richmond . one bearing anothername. When McClellan was on the Peninsula, the shadow of thewar-cloud swept past the place. One or two negroes ran away,but at that time they were not tolerated in camp. Thecampaign of 1862 left the estate unharmed. But Sheridanscavalry, followed by the Sixth Corps, in its magnificent marchfrom the North Anna, had suddenly and unexpectedly disturbedthe security of the old plantation. There was a rattling firefrom carbines, a fierce fight, men wounded and dead, brokenfences, trodden fields of wheat and clover; ransacked stables,corn-bins, meat-houses, and a swift disappearing of live stockof every description. But to go back a little. The proprietor of this estate ardentlyespoused Secession. His wife was as earnest as he. They hatedthe North. They loved the institutions and principles of theSouth. They sold their surplus negroes in the Richmond mar-ket. They parted husbands and wives, tore children from thearms of their mothers, and separated them forever. They lived. FORAGING. 1864.] FROM THE RAPIDAN TO COLD HARBOR. 849 on unrequited labor, and grew rich through the breeding ofhuman flesh for the market. When the war commenced, the owner of this magnificentestate enlisted in the army and was made a Colonel of cavalry,lie furnished supplies and kept open house for his comrades inarms; but he fell in a cavalry engagement on the Rappahannock,in October, 1863, leaving a wife and three young advance of the army, its sudden appearance on the Pamun- key, left Mrs. no time to remove her personal estate, or to send her negroes to Richmond for safe keeping. Fitz-HughLee disputed Sheridans advance. The fighting began on thisestate. Charges by squadrons and regiments were made throughthe corn-fields. Horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, were seized by thecavalrymen. The garden, filled with young vegetables, w
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