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Camelot, the Fort Valley, Va. farm owned by Virginia Ingram, mother of the groom. According to her, on the day of the wedding, the bride swept down her home's spiral staircase and entered the white carriage owned and driven by Brook Barrick of Edinburg. The carriage, fitted with scarlet cushions, was pulled by a pure white horse whose name was Blue.
So red, white and Blue, off went the bride to a collection of tents and chairs in the field. She was wearing an 1860style, hoop-skirted dress she had made herself from material she'd had since she was a girl. Awaiting her was her minister father, her daughter Kadie, the flower girl, and her groom, wearing the long coat and top hat of the period.
Also waiting, but hidden from the guests by a stand of trees, were three friends on horseback. They were listening for a special signal.
Blue came to a stop. The bride paused, her frilly parasol a-tilt. Guests craned their necks to see.
That's when kidnapper Dan Shepard of Woodbridge stepped in. The last view the guests had of the bride before the carriage disappeared over a rising hill was her swinging that parasol like a war club.
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