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“The armies felled the larger trees…”
“Recollections of the Civil War,” Nannie Brown Doherty, Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine, Vol. 11, 1961, p. 3185.
“…small cabins…”
“Memoir Excerpt Covering the Battles of First and Second Fredericksburg,” anonymous, transcript and photocopy of original held at the archives at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park in Fredericksburg, VA, pp. 25-6, 5.
“…a grazing beef…”
The Mobile Register (Mobile, AL), November 26, 1864, quoted in “Barbarians at Fredericksburg’s Gate: The Impact of the Union Army on Civilians,” William A. Blair, included in:
Gallagher, G. W. (1995). The Fredericksburg Campaign: Decision on the Rappahannock. Chapel Hill, N.C: University of North Carolina Press, p. 160.
“…underthings from the duck tents…”
“Recollections of the Civil War,” Nannie Brown Doherty, Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine, Vol. 11, 1961, p. 3185.
“The northern general…”
See “…Yankee guards…,” above.
Burnside’s tenure as leader of the Army of the Potomac was short-lived, and I am assuming his replacement was not as keen on employing Union forces to protect Burnside’s friends.
“…sometimes it was Yankeedom.”
Derived from examination of many documents and Civil War histories—the exact movement of the front line of the war is beyond the scope of this book.
“A skirmish was fought…”
“Recollections of the Civil War,” Nannie Brown Doherty, Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine, Vol. 11, 1961, p. 3184.
“…the marshy parts of the plantation.”
I am speculating that Lorenzo would have been part of these efforts, but as described above there is good reason to believe that Charles Mason, for whatever reason, trusted Lorenzo more than most of the enslaved people he owned (see “…one of his master’s favorites…,” above).
“Recollections of the Civil War,” Nannie Brown Doherty, Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine, Vol. 11, 1961, p. 3185.