July 6th, 1861 (continued)

July 6th, 1861 (continued)

Gordon, Stephen

1861-07-06

Courtesy of National Park Service, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, "FRSP 3983-3987, FRSP 15960-15961"

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6th Monday continued The farmers and country women throng the park with Bread, butter pies cakes milk eggs cherries and berries. Garden _____ and young fowls. and what they could not sell they gave away. About dark Par and I went a fishing to spring mill pond. It was about a mile and a half from the park. We had not been there more than an hour when we heard the rumbling of wagons and drivers hallowing and we thought that one train was moving so we started for the park and got there just in time to be too late for our train had gone. We started after it and caught up just as they was passing through the town. It was about ten o'clock when they started

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