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battles of Cedar Mountain, Brandy Station, and Kelly’s Ford. Several hitherto-unpublished letters and diaries detail actions and feelings on the home front during the war. Vignettes and sections cover the many veterans’ reunions, raisings of monuments, and controversial establishment of the Culpeper National Cemetery.
The Culpeper history also presents many significant published firsts on the Virginia history scene: Details of the building and operation of the Hazel River Canal and Orange and Alexandria Railroad; the minutes of meeting of the Culpeper Society for the Promotion of Agriculture and Domestic Manufactures, oldest known agricultural society in Virginia; and details behind the establishment of the county’s pre-Civil War public school system, one of six in
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