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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Reminiscences of the Powhatan troop of cavalry in 1861. (search)
a touching one for us: Good Lord! bless and keep and take care of these young gentlemen as is going to fight the battles of their country. Good old man; he, too, has passed to his rest long ago. We drop in passing the tribute of a tear to his memory. Soon we were ordered to move to the front to occupy Manassas, halting at the Fauquier White Sulphur Springs to be joined by the noble and world-renowned Black horse cavalry, under their accomplished leader, Captain William H. Payne, with Bob Randolph; than whom a nobler spirit never lived nor died in a holy cause, as first lieutenant. We met them, and a gay night we had of it. A stag dance in the large ballroom, with song and story, and a friendship cemented, which has outlasted the war and still blooms as fresh as a flower on a Confederate grave. United as a squadron (we mention here, the rest of the cavalry were then in camp of instruction at or near Ashland and came on later) we gaily marched towards our destination, halting at n