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Home of Colonial Governor Alexander Spotswoodand formerly the site ofFort Germanna, 1714
Archaeological excavation byMary Washington College,Center for Historic Preservation
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Born to Quaker parents in North Carolina, Dolley Payne lived with her family in Hanover County, Virginia until 1783. Following the death of her first husband, John Todd, she married Congressman James Madison in 1794. As First Lady of the United St…
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"In the fight of Johnson's Division on last Friday I was under as warm a musketry fire as I have experienced for a good while—certainly worse than I have been in since Sharpsburg." — Lt. Col. Alexander S. "Sandie" Pendleton, CSA
"On…
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"Several efforts were made to charge the hostile line, but as these attempts were made by single brigades, without proper deliberation and without co-operation on the part of the other forces to the right and left, they naturally resulted in nothi…
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"We soon struck the Yankee skirmishers and drove them back through the woods to an open field, where we ran into French's entire corps and into about the hottest place that could be imagined." — Capt. William B. Colston, 2nd Virginia Infantr…
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"We gained a slight rise in the land behind an old worm fence. The enemy had fallen back under cover of a piece of woods well in our front. Soon they came out in splendid battle array, with waving banners, and charged our position. It was a desper…
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"[It was] ? as warm a contest as this regiment was ever engaged in. ? It seemed as if the enemy was throwing minie-balls upon us by the bucket-full, when the battle got fairly under way." — Member of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry, CSA
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"Gen. [Edward] Johnson ? cheered us on to the fight with ?Hurrah for North Carolina, go it North Carolina—give it to them boys!' ? The Federals were as thick as black birds in our front." — Capt. Thomas Boone, 1st North Carolina Infant…
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"There was a sudden commotion in the train ahead and several of the ambulances turned and came back in confusion. General [George H.] Steuart promptly ordered them back to their places, faced the brigade into line to the left and deployed skirmish…
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"The ground in my front for about 500 yards was thickly wooded and brushy, and beyond that was a cleared field owned by a man named Payne." — Gen. Edward Johnson, CSA
"On account of the density of the undergrowth in the woods and the abse…