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stage road, which left the city at that time by what is known as St. Mary's street, and ran due north from the Hillsboro street road.
It is now known as the ‘Upper Durham road,’ and comes back into the Hillsboro road again at a point some fifteen miles from the city.
I say that I had repeately warned General Hampton of the existence of this road, fully expecting that Kilpatrick would have flanked us, though, strange to say, he did not, and seems to have been in ignorance of it. Not so, however, the commissioners, Governors Graham and Swain!
Returning from their mission to Sherman, and finding the army of General Johnston had fallen back on Hillsboro, they proceeded by the old stage road, known, of course, to them, and did successfully flank both armies, and actually caught up with us at the point where the roads forked.
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Table of Contents:
Parole list of Engineer troops,
Army of Northern Virginia
, surrendered at
Appomattox C. H.
,
April
9th
,
1865
.
Presentation of the portrait of
Lieut.-General
Wade
Hampton
,
C. S. Cavalry
, [from the times-dispatch,
September
16
,
1904
.]
The
Fredericksburg artillery
,
Captain
Edward
S.
Marye
, [from the times-dispatch,
January
8
,
1905
.]
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