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Old Soldiers Remembered
At the time of the Civil War, Dr. William Amiss and Dr. D. D. Miller probably drew lots to see who would go to the Civil War to take care of the people and who would stay in the county to take care of the people.
Dr. Amiss won and he became Stonewall Jackson’s physician.
—Virginia Miller Lindstrom
told to Historical Society
During the Second World War, rationing was instituted in Rappahannock County and throughout the rest of the nation to ensure that items in short supply would be available for the war effort.
Gas was one of the rationed commodities. Mrs. Mattie Ball Fletcher of Washington recalls her son, Sperryville attorney James William Fletcher, switching from automotive to horse and buggy transportation to save gasoline. “I remember driving down the F.T. Valley in that buggy. It was so slow, I thought I’d get there faster if I walked.”
Carl L. Hofer from McLean and Sperryville wrote that there was in Rappahannock County in 1850 a Revolutionary War pensioner.
Colbert Mason, 85 at the time of the Rappahannock census, was listed with his son Silas, a laborer and his daughter, Elizabeth.
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