“…replaced with broken wagons…”
“…Union soldiers stole wagons…”
“…met with taunting noises…”
“Yankees moved into Fredericksburg.”
“…Yankee soldiers worked to repair…”
“Good southern women…”
“…to swallow up the entire Union army.”
“…which currency was best…”
“A man named Dr. Hall…”
“A black woman arrived…”
“Stories limped to Old Mansion…”
“Maurys refused to go to church…”
“…replaced with broken wagons…”
The Affadavit of Eldred Satterwhite of the County of Caroline, State of Virginia, held in a larger collection of materials relating to a slave escape in 1862, in the Woolfolk Family Collection at the Special Collections department of Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“…Union soldiers stole wagons…”
Transcript of a letter from unknown soldier to his mother, June 3, 1864, held at the archives at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park in Fredericksburg, VA, end Original held in the Michigan Historical Collections in the Bentley Historical Library in Ann Arbor, MI. The original was returned to its owner after the transcription was made.
“…met with taunting noises…”
Undated transcription of a letter by Henry W. Garrett; both the original letter and the transcription were posted for sale on Ebay in 2006. This copy of the transcription is held at the archives at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park in Fredericksburg, VA.
“Yankees moved into Fredericksburg.”
Maury, B. H., & In Parmelee, A. M. (1938). The Confederate diary of Betty Herndon Maury: Daughter of Lieut. Commander M.F. Maury, 1861-1863. Washington: Privately printed, p. 82.
“…Yankee soldiers worked to repair…”
Letter from McDowell’s Division, May 13, 1862, from a miscellaneous collection of materials indexed “BV 481-08,” p. 12, held at the archives at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park in Fredericksburg, VA.
“Good southern women…”
Letter from McDowell’s Division, May 13, 1862, from a miscellaneous collection of materials indexed “BV 481-08,” p. 11, held at the archives at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park in Fredericksburg, VA.
“…to swallow up the entire Union army.”
“An Interesting Letter from the Grand Army,” May 2, 1862, from a miscellaneous collection of materials indexed “BV 481-08,” p. 1, held at the archives at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park in Fredericksburg, VA.
“…which currency was best…”
“Our Washington Correspondence,” May 20, 1862, from a miscellaneous collection of materials indexed “BV 481-08,” p. 17, held at the archives at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park in Fredericksburg, VA.
“A man named Dr. Hall…”
Maury, B. H., & In Parmelee, A. M. (1938). The Confederate diary of Betty Herndon Maury: Daughter of Lieut. Commander M.F. Maury, 1861-1863. Washington: Privately printed, p. 75.
“A black woman arrived…”
Maury, B. H., & In Parmelee, A. M. (1938). The Confederate diary of Betty Herndon Maury: Daughter of Lieut. Commander M.F. Maury, 1861-1863. Washington: Privately printed, p. 26.
“Stories limped to Old Mansion…”
“An Interesting Letter from the Grand Army,” May 2, 1862, from a miscellaneous collection of materials indexed “BV 481-08,” p. 4, held at the archives at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park in Fredericksburg, VA.
“Maurys refused to go to church…”
Maury, B. H., & In Parmelee, A. M. (1938). The Confederate diary of Betty Herndon Maury: Daughter of Lieut. Commander M.F. Maury, 1861-1863. Washington: Privately printed, p. 86.