From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign

From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign
A Sketch in Personal Narration of the Scenes a Soldier Saw

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From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign by William Meade Dame

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From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign
A Sketch in Personal Narration of the Scenes a Soldier Saw

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In this order, The Army of Northern Virginia, General Lee in front, has come marching down the road of history, and shall march on, and all brave souls of the generations stand at "Salute," and do them homage as they pass. Noble Army of Northern Virginia!

All true men will understand and none, least of all the brave men who faced it in battle, will deny to the old Confederate the just right to be proud that he was comrade to those men and marched in their ranks, and was with their leader to the end. Of that army, I had, thank God! the honor to be a soldier. It came about in this way.

=The Call Comes Home=

When the war began I was a school boy attending the Military Academy in Danville, Virginia, where I was born and reared. At once the school broke up. The teachers, and all the boys who were old enough went into the army. I was just sixteen years old, and small for my age, and I can understand now, but could not then, how my parents looked upon the desire of a boy like tha

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