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The Daily Dispatch: November 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
The battle-field and the camp.[Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Fauquier Co., Va., Nov. 12 1861. To travel over this part of the country may probably suggest to a very vivid imagination the character of the marches our troops in Western Virginia undergo, though comparatively the country here is smooth and the roads good. If a country is "tolerably level" where you are no sooner down one hill than another appears before you, and if roads are "pretty good" where you are perpetually jolted and jumbled over rocks as big as cheeses, up and down natural steps, into deep mud holes, on one side the carriage, till your companion is unexpectedly jerked into your lap, then immediately pitched back again by a deep rut in the opposite direction — if this, at the rate of three miles an hour, is "pretty good traveling," may Heaven preserve our poor men in their forced marches through the mountains where roads are really admitted to be bad — bad even to those whose fortitude, ph