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By THERESA REYNOLDS
Bappthannork Nrw* Staff Writer
In the summer of a 1863 a young Confederate soldier wrote in his diary about a march through Sperryville and on to Front Royal:
June 11
'"Commence march at sunrise. Pass Sperryville about 11 o’clock. Sun puts out and our march becomes exceedingly severe. Arrived at Washington (Rapphannnock county) about 3 o'clock, halted there, from the town full of pretty ladies: they employed themselves in watering the soldiers, cheering them, etc. I borrowed a horse and rode about 3 miles southwest of Washington to see Miss Phebe Harris and returned about 11 p.m. to camp on the road to Gaines’ crossroads. Here Genl. Early put Col. Gibson under arrest for permitting some of the Rappahannock men to go by home. It is now supposed that we are making a flank movement on old Hooker by way of Warrenton. ”
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