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By LAURIE MARSHALL
Alyette Buckner has lived in Rappahannock County for all of his 91 years. He was one of the first orchardists to risk planting Macintosh apple trees baca in the early 1900’s and has served 32 years on the county Board of Supervisors.
His father, who was a boy of 14 during the Civil War, told his son stories of what he saw and did when Rappahannock County had Yankee soldiers coming through at war with the Confederacy. Alyette Buckner has witten down these tales as his father told them, just as if his father was speaking. Laurie Marshall transcribed and edited Mr. Buckner’s writing which will be printed in a two-part series.
Back in the days of the civil war the people were very much like those of today, very fond of excitement. I was then a boy nearing the age of 14 years. My birthday being the 13th of December
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