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Sperryville and Woodville, made me a prisoner within my yard, took possession of my mill, with all my flour, wheat, rye and oats, carried away 12 wagon loads of corn, nearly all my bacon, with seven horses and all my stock nearly, except a few sheep they could not drive and two cows that got into the woods.
They also took my carriage and wagon and every available thing, and compelled me to feed more than 600 soldiers. Then six most valuable women and three men left. Then two Frenchmen made headquarters at my house for six weeks, whilst making the road to Madison court house and on leaving stole many family relics too sacred to mention, and all that surrounded them, which was sent off by their orderlie.”
“After the Northern armies first occupied this section of Virginia, and until the close of the war, were you or not able to conduct your farming operations, and did you or not receive any benefit or profit from your farm?" “I received
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