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the children. People began to', realize that the war was going to go on and not stop after thirty days.”
“General Pope came into >' Madison County in August of i ‘62. He was notorious for mak-. ing war on civilians. I remember when I was a young boy being told they stole everything that was edible, canned fruit and meat. The only thing left for one family was one gig barrel of molasses. The chickens and hogs were gone. The family thought they could make it through the year with molasses. But, the barrel of molasses was broken and poured all over the house.” -
“Pope was driven out and the whole county became ’a hospital. Women, children, ■ and slaves turned their homes into hospitals to treat the sick, the wounded, and the dying. But they still managed to . make it.”
“In the Summer of ‘63, after the battle of Gettysburg, Lee’s army passed through Madison. The wagon trains of wounded that came through took 24 hours to pass a single point on the street.”
“Afterwards, General Meade’s union army made it to>.* Madison. He sent 10,005-’ Union cavalry into Madison. They went door to door to rai^>the houses and get whatever - food they could.”
“On Sept. 22, 1863, Brook Shell was to be fought, the largest battle ever in Madison County. Roughly 4,000 men met at Jack’s Shop and fought throughout....The entire South of Madison County became a battleground....people 23 miles away in Charlottesville could hear the roar of the cannon all day long.”
“Six hundred Confederate were killed that day and an equal number of Union men. I can’t tell you how many people come to me to ask me where Jack’s Shop is because that’s where their relatives died. The fields were ruined. The crops weren’t harvested.”
“In Feb. ^.864, perhaps the most disastrous occurrence in Madison happened. Lee’s army was away from Madison. Custard had his troops at Mt. Pony. On the 28th of Feb., Custard got to the Madison courthouse....The most miserable night of the war was Feb. 29th of Leap Year. Twenty churches were in ashes. Every * single business was gone, It demoralized the population. A man almost 70 years old lost his general store. The first thing he did the next morning was to enlist in the Confederate Army.”
“The war ended, as far as ‘ the fighting went, but thev' impact was far from over,’; Troops came home to destroyed farms. Hardly any
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