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 13 · column 1 of 6 · from the scan, no model involved
First
Wounded
(Continued from Page 1)
War episode. . The episode referred to was the skirmish in which Peyton Anderson was injured.
On the day of the gathering, the Fairfax Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) unveiled a monument to Anderson, which bears the following inscription: “Peyton Anderson of the Rappahannock Cavalry was severely wounded on picket duty 122 feet northwest of this spot May 27, 1861. The first soldier of the South to shed his blood for the Confederacy. Erected by Fairfax Chapter, U.D.C., May 27,1927.” The monument is on Route 211, two miles north of the Fairfax courthouse.
After the unveiling, Representative R. Moore of Fairfax addressed the gathering. He outlined the events leading up to Anderson’s injury and delivered a eulogy to “all the men of the South who had shed their blood for a cause which went down to defeat without dishonor.”
Moore continued: “Just as the Mississippi River, whose mighty waters are now flooding the Middle West and bringing sorrow and destruction to countless thousands, has its beginning in an obscure little lake in the North, so the events of May 27,1861, at this spot in Fairfax County, started a mighty stream of blood, which swelled to a crimson tide, bearing on its bosom the destinies of men and States.”
Family members present at the ceremony included Anderson’s widow, Louemma Miller, who lived to the age of 101. She was born in 1849 and died in 1961. At the age of 26, in 1876, she was married to Peyton who was 38. Peyton, a native of Amissville, was born in 1837 and died in 1914. Both Peyton and Louemma are buried in a family cemetary in Amiss ville.
87.2%