DCMatt
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While doing research for some new places to dig, I read the memoirs of a Union Civil War officer who spent most of the war in my area (northern Virginia). The letters were written at the request of his niece in about 1890. In one of them he talks about his narrow escape from capture and his adventurous romp across the Virginia countryside to return to his camp. In this account, he mentions "us".
Here's what he said:
... I should have told you that when I was captured and went to lie down by the log, I took my Sabre and belt and hid down under the log and covered them with leaves and trash. I suppose they are there yet, unless some fellow undertook to cut the log and by accident uncovered them. Thousands and thousands of dollars worth of arms and equipment are lying in the soil of the state where battles were fought to be dug up by generations yet unborn...
A man of great vision, no doubt. Wish I knew where he buried that sabre...
DCMatt
Here's what he said:
... I should have told you that when I was captured and went to lie down by the log, I took my Sabre and belt and hid down under the log and covered them with leaves and trash. I suppose they are there yet, unless some fellow undertook to cut the log and by accident uncovered them. Thousands and thousands of dollars worth of arms and equipment are lying in the soil of the state where battles were fought to be dug up by generations yet unborn...
A man of great vision, no doubt. Wish I knew where he buried that sabre...
DCMatt
