Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 7 · column 3 of 4 · from the scan, no model involved
Rappahannock families found themselves playing unwilling hosts to soldiers from the north, both during the war years and during the years afterward when soldiers from both the northern and southern armies roamed the countryside on their way home.
Mary Elizabeth Hite wrote an article for the Rappahannock News in 1949 with some of the stories she had picked up over the years.
From Mrs. Hite:
General Grant __
In Woodville
During the War Between the States, General Grant had established headquarters in the yard of a Mrs. Newton, near Woodville. Grant and Mrs. Newton were watching the fighting from her front porch. The General warned Mrs. Newton that their position was not any too safe and advised her to go inside. She did not go and a little later he spoke for the second time, saying “I see my men are falling back and I think you had better go inside.”
To which Mrs. Newton replied, “General Grant, if you are frightened there is a place for you in the cellar with the children and as for me I am going to stay here and watch the battle.”
Years later Grant asked someone from Woodville if he knew Mrs. Newton and when a reply in the affirmative was received he said “She is the most plucky woman I ever saw.”
Dr. Mark Reid
The war had ended but not the trouble of Southern men and women. The Federal Government was taking into custody all those who refused to take the “oath of allegiance” to the Union. When the oath was read to Dr. Reid of Thermopylea near Boston he refused to sign.
Though an invalid and bedridden, they placed him in an ambulance to carry him to prison. No sooner had they done so when his daughter Matilda climbed in beside him, telling the soldiers that if they took her father they would take her also.
89.5%