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“Two young brothers marched away,
One wore blue and one wore gray.”
As the words of an old song tell, the Civil War broke apart families, pitting father against son and brother against brother. But Rappahannock was apparently spared that tragic aspect of the conflict. Elisabeth and C. E. Johnson’s history of the county lists nine pages of men who fought for the Confederate cause but not a single soldier who enlisted in the Union army. Brothers, fathers and sons marched off to
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