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Eugene Scheel drew the map of the Virginia Hunt Country for Arundel Newspapers. On heavy parchment stock, it is 18 by 24'/} and sells for S3.95 plain or $6.50 laminated plus 4 per cent sales tax (add 50 cents for postage and handling).
after a favorite hound who was drowned in a spring freshet. Gooney was the hound’s name, and Gooney Manor the tract was called. Down in Rappahannock and Madison they call it Goonamanna.’ People will tell you it's an old Indian name.
Six Hours: Good Hunt
Even into pre-Civil War years, a good hunt was one that took at least six hours. Some old-timers insist that the last of the great chases came in 1846 when down by Carter’s Run Church in Fauquier a fox named Old Whitey was caught after an eight-hour, 47.5-mile chase by a hound named Gobye.
One of the most ardent pursuers was a young man by the name of Turner Ashby, later the famed Confederate General.
Ashby attributed the famed Rebel Yell—an alternating crescendo and diminuendo of ooohh-weeeyahh’s—to a cry he picked up when he espied a fox. The cry had become Ashby’s equestrian trademark long before the war, and it was at a meadow in Loudoun County by the still-standing Green Garden Mill where in October 1859 his sounds of victory caused more stir than his many trophies.
As one of Ashby's cavalrymen later described the yell, “It was music only to Stonewall Jackson ears.”
The Piedmont Hunt was the first of today’s Hunts to make an appearance, way back in 1840. Forty-seven years later the Warrenton Hunt was the second, and in those days there were two competing sports.
Baseball made its bow in the area in the winter of 1863-64 when Federal troops occupying Fauquier, Fairfax, and Culpeper played the game.
It caught on everywhere except in Culpeper and the hinterlands of the Blue Ridge. There wasn’t enough flat ground in the latter places, and since Culpeper was ravaged so thoroughly, nothing with a Yankee trademark was to be copied.
Compete With Jousting The other big sport was jousting, and every week or so, from spring to late fall, there were day-long tournaments, as they were called.
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