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the Union Army during the Civil War.
“The Northern army of 60,000 under Generals Seigel and Milroy, came to Sperryville and Woodville, made me a prisoner in my own yard, took possession of my mill, my flour, wheat, rye and oats, carried away twelve wagon loads of com, nearly all my bacon, with seven horses and all my stock nearly, except for a few sheep they could not drive out and two cows that got into the woods,” Homassel-Thomton recounted in an 1872 legal proceeding.
During recent renovations of the home, several forks that were hidden in the walls of the house were found, presumably hidden from those troops. A union shell was also found in one of the exterior walls as well as an 1807 inventory of William
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