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ng to carry the little baggage we had, and to relieve us, but most of the men marched the whole way. We stopped in Winchester only long enough to take supper, supping at different private houses, the citizens welcoming us with lavish hospitality, thoa some, not knowing that the movement was authorized by Governor Letcher—as it had not then been publicly made known that Virginia had seceded—thought it was a move of the self-constituted Secession Convention, which had met in Richmond on Tuesday, April 16th, and the fact of which meeting, I think, helped to hurry up our laggard Convention to do what it ought to have done two months before. I, and many others, supped that night with my friend, David Barton, Jr., who had volunteered from the University for this special service, not being a regular member of our company, the Southern Guard. He has since gone to his God, where wars will never trouble him more, having been killed in the first battle of Fredericksburg, December 13th, ‘62. <