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“…the Signal Corps…”
“…assistant commissary for subsistence…”
“…Wiley Roy Mason…”
“…many military weddings.”
“The men of King George…”
“…the Yankees crossed the Potomac…”
“…vandalized the clerk’s office.”
“…peeping inside every wardrobe.”
“…to pay for cakes and pies…”
“…they stole turkeys and geese.”
“They stole mules too…”
“There was a physician…”
“…killed by his neighbors…”
“…Charles Mason came down with gout…”
“…the Signal Corps…”
Lee, E., The Last Hope: Lies, Truths and Legends of John Wilkes Booth’s 34-Hour Escape Through King George County, Virginia (2019), North Carolina: Lulu Press, p. 163.
“…assistant commissary for subsistence…”
Lee, E., The Last Hope: Lies, Truths and Legends of John Wilkes Booth’s 34-Hour Escape Through King George County, Virginia (2019), North Carolina: Lulu Press, p. 156.
“…Wiley Roy Mason…”
Lee, E., The Last Hope: Lies, Truths and Legends of John Wilkes Booth’s 34-Hour Escape Through King George County, Virginia (2019), North Carolina: Lulu Press, p. 151.
“…many military weddings.”
Lee provides a full accounting of all of the children.
Lee, E., The Last Hope: Lies, Truths and Legends of John Wilkes Booth’s 34-Hour Escape Through King George County, Virginia (2019), North Carolina: Lulu Press, p. 152.
“The men of King George…”
“Recollections of the Civil War,” Nannie Brown Doherty, Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine, Vol. 11, 1961, p. 3178.
“…the Yankees crossed the Potomac…”
“Recollections of the Civil War,” Nannie Brown Doherty, Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine, Vol. 11, 1961, p. 3178.
“…vandalized the clerk’s office.”
“Recollections of the Civil War,” Nannie Brown Doherty, Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine, Vol. 11, 1961, p. 3179.
“…peeping inside every wardrobe.”
“Recollections of the Civil War,” Nannie Brown Doherty, Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine, Vol. 11, 1961, p. 3183.
“…to pay for cakes and pies…”
“Recollections of the Civil War,” Nannie Brown Doherty, Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine, Vol. 11, 1961, p. 3179.
“…they stole turkeys and geese.”
“Recollections of the Civil War,” Nannie Brown Doherty, Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine, Vol. 11, 1961, p. 3181.
“They stole mules too…”
“Recollections of the Civil War,” Nannie Brown Doherty, Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine, Vol. 11, 1961, p. 3184.
“There was a physician…”
Like Uriah Inscoe (see “…Uriah Inscoe…,” above), a doctor appears in the 1860 Census immediately following the entry for the family of Charles Mason, indicating that he was an adjacent neighbor. I found no reference to him in Mason family letters during the war; I think it’s safe to assume that he left to participate in the war (see “…the Yankees crossed the Potomac…,” above).
“…killed by his neighbors…”
Lee, E., The Last Hope: Lies, Truths and Legends of John Wilkes Booth’s 34-Hour Escape Through King George County, Virginia (2019), North Carolina: Lulu Press, p. 151.
“…Charles Mason came down with gout…”
Letter from Charles Mason to Maria Mason, undated, but the contents of the letter reveal that it was written during the period of his imprisonment, in the middle of 1863. Mason indicates that his gout had begun prior to his arrest, and started in his feet. The letter is in the possession of Angus Lamond, of Lynchburg, Virginia. Lamond is a descendant of the Masons.