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The General writes to his sons To his wife at Rockbridge Baths He joins her there about once a week Distinguished and undistinguished callers at his Lexington home He advocates early hours His fondness for animals I had before this time gone to my farm in King William County and started out in life as a farmer.
Don't you let 'em! Now I air a-going to lift you and carry you to the nearest house. All the boys have run on after the Yanks." He took up his sergeant and moved off with an easy step. Coffin uttered a short and piteous moaning like a child. They presently met a number of grey soldiers. "We've druv them we've druv them! The 37th's down there. Just listen to Rockbridge! Who've you got there?"
While halting on the march it was Rader's amusement, especially when some outsider was passing by, to set his whip-stock as a prop under it, go through the motions of grinding, and rattle off the music of a hand-organ with his mouth until chased away by his victim. He mysteriously vanished from Rockbridge after the war, and has never since been located.
Ricketts and Griffin upon the Mathews Hill ceased firing greatly to the excitement of Rockbridge, Staunton, Loudoun, Alexandria, and New Orleans. The smoke slightly lifted. "What're they doing? They've got their horses they're limbering up! What in hell! d'ye suppose they've had enough? No! Great day in the morning! They're coming up here!"
He has recently written me that his drawings were lost in a canoe in which he attempted to cross James River on his journey from Appomattox. Otherwise some of them would have appeared in this book. Otho Kean, of Goochland County, Virginia. John E. McCauley, of Rockbridge, sergeant of the battery. William S. McClintic, now a prominent citizen of Missouri.
On another cot, a few steps farther on, I recognized John McClintic, of the Rockbridge Cavalry, and brother of my messmate. He was a boy of seventeen, with his arm shattered at the shoulder. On the cot next to him lay a man who was dying. McClintic and the others near him who could make their wants known were almost famished for water, a bucket of which, after much difficulty, we secured for them.
More commonly the upper parts of the upward-arching strata have been cut off by the action of the decay-bringing forces frost, flowing water, or creeping ice in glaciers so that only the downward pointing folds which were formed in the mountain-making are well preserved, and these are almost invariably hidden within the earth. Section of mountains. Rockbridge and Bath counties, Va.
"Captain Cleave, while I am waiting for General Loring, I propose to break this dam Dam No. 5." "Yes, sir." "I shall go almost immediately to Martinsburg, taking with me General Garnett's brigade and two of the Rockbridge guns. It will be necessary to cover the operation. The work may take several days. By the time the dam is broken General Loring will be up." His eyes moved toward the mantel.
Under these impressions, so fully dilated Item. Item. The hundred shares, which I hold in the James River Company, I have given, and now confirm in perpetuity, to and for the use and benefit of Liberty Hall Academy, in the County of Rockbridge, in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Item.
But in the spring of '62 he allowed me to volunteer, and I having selected the company I wished to join, the Rockbridge Artillery, he gave his approval, and wrote me to come to Richmond, where he would give me my outfit. He was just as sweet and loving to me then as in the old days. I had seen so little of him during the last six years that I stood somewhat in awe of him.
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