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still in vogue.
Pelham’s guns were lightweight mountain howitzers, not the huge artillery pieces that are more familiar, but... you get the picture, or rather, the sound.
The strategic importance of our roads was emphasized on more than one occasion. In one of the most notable ‘tourist’ excursions in county history, Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia passed through (and camped) in Rappahannock during the march to Gettysburg and the subsequent retreat. (This was not a ‘one-tank’ day trip recommended in the Sunday paper. It involved 70,000 troops, many barefoot, miles of supporting wagons, dusty roads, etc. - a true multi-day, 19th Century extravaganza, both going and coming). Ten months earlier the same Army had passed through Amissville, albeit much more rapidly, on the march to 2nd Manassas.
Custer’s Skedaddle
During the Gettysburg retreat Union General George Armstrong Custer attacked Confederates about 5 miles south of present-day Ben Venue. Cannon on the side of Battle Mountain were the weapons of choice* once again. The locals must have rallied the Southern boys to enforce the noise ordinances that day for some Georgians doubled back to envelope those guns and their commander. Custer, infamous for
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