vii+488pp+illus. The story of Culpeper County, Virginia, is a unique one in Civil War history. Nestled in one of the South's most strategically important locations, it was occupied by the Northern army, recaptured by the Confederacy and finally ceded to the North. Told largely through diaries, papers and correspondence of residents, local infantrymen and such eminent personalities as Robert E. Lee, Walt Whitman, Ulysses S. Grant, Clara Barton and Stonewall Jackson, the author weaves together a military history with an elegant portrait of Southern life before, during and after the War. Bibliography and Index.

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