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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
(or Wild Place), covers a surface of from twenty to thirty thousand acres, and is easily distinguished by its vegetation from the surrounding woods. It occupies an elevated pebbly plateau; its soil is sterile, but rich in oxide of iron, deeply guttered by numerous small streams which descend at the north toward the Rapidan and the Rappahannock, and which at the south form the Po and the Ny, two of the sources of the Mattapony. From the early days of colonization, under the government of Spotswood, who gave his name to the county of Spotsylvania, the iron ores of this locality have been worked openly, the soil has been ripped up by repeated excavations, while the trees of the forests have been recklessly cut down for the purpose of supplying the upper furnaces with fuel. From this destruction the lofty trees of the forest have given place to a stunted though very thick vegetation, consisting of dwarfed oaks, thorny plants, and juniper trees, among which vines and creepers of every