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The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], Letter from Fredericksburg. (search)
usand dollars was given out to the people. Thirty thousand has been set aside to relieve the needy this winter, and fifty thousand has been invested as a permanent school fund. Mr. R. T. Thom, so long the efficient Postmaster, though now in his eighty second year, looks so hale and well that he laughingly tells his friends he wants to visit Richmond, but is afraid to come lest he will be conscripted. Divine services are held regularly four Sundays in each month — twice a month by Rev. Mr. Kregel, of the Baptist Church, and twice a month by Rev. Mr. Keppler, of the Episcopal Church. Since the Yankees left a great trade has been carried on between Stafford and the town in rags, old iron, Yankee blankets, overcoats, &c. The town in times past enjoyed great reputation for the beauty of its women. My impression is that the present generation will fully reach up to the standard of the past in good looks, and what is above all price in their excellence and worth. L.