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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.10 (search)
the woods. Holding my comrade's horse as I sat on my own, he went forward to investigate. I fell asleep after the day's experiences, being but a youth. He returning and feeling about in the thick darkness, for an age, he said, he could not find me nor the horses. Finally, in some interval of my slumbers, I did hear his whispered calls, and we set forward once more. Further on, leaving our horses in the woods, we walked across fields to the homestead of a well-known citizen north of Timberville. Do you see that pile of straw six feet high piled against the big barn doors? That is a tell-tale. Then here is a Yankee horse in the stall below. That means a guard in the house to protect private property. A few minutes later we are told by a fair inmate of that house, whom we contrived to awake without awakening that guard, and who delivered in whispers to us all her guard had disclosed of the things we sought to know. We were now close on Custer's men. One field lay betwee
The Daily Dispatch: December 8, 1860., [Electronic resource], Sickness in the country. (search)
Sickness in the country. --Much sickness, chiefly typhoid fever and diphtheria, prevails at Timberville and vicinity. There had been a death in that region every day for the last three weeks, up to Monday last. Diphtheria still prevails extensively on Briery Branch, in the western part of this county. Quite a number of deaths have occurred, as many as four in the same family, (Mr. David Vanfossen's,) within the last three or four weeks. It spares neither age nor sex.-- Rockingham (Va.) Register.
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