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right up to Colonel Butler and shot him once in the head with a revolver at close range. When this soldier then tried to retrieve Butler s sword, he was himself killed by a party of troops who rushed to the scene.
Union soldiers faced death in three forms: bullets from well entrenched sharpshooters, plunging headlong, off the 150foot rocky bluff in sheer panic, and drowning in the Potomac. Many bodies were recovered downstream for weeks afterward.
The Union leader, General Charles P. Stone, was made the target of wrath and a scapegoat by the “Radical Republicans” , who had gained the ascendancy in Congress. He was imprisoned for six months in Fort Lafayette in New York harbor without a list of the charges or a trial by court martial. Upon his release on Aug. 16, 1862, he struggled for months to clear his name, and eventually returned to active service. After the war, Stone, originally trained as an engineer, supervised the assembly of the Statue of Liberty which was officially dedicated on October 28, 1886, within site of Fort Lafayette where he had been imprisoned.
The next meeting of the Round Table, Tuesday, Jan. 20 will be a member’s “show and tell” night with attendees encouraged to bring memorabilia, family letters, and favorite books about the Civil War to share. It will be held at the Rappahannock County Library at 7:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend and join the Round Table.
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