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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 11 (search)
er writer, of a still earlier period, thus speaks: Beyond Colonel Spottswood's furnace, above the Falls of Rappahannock River, within view of the vast mountains, he has founded a town called Germanna, from some Germans sent over by Queen Anne. Beyond this is seated the colony of Germans of Palatines, with allowance of good quantity of rich land, who thrive very well and live happily, and entertain generously. Hugh Jones: Present Condition of Virginia, 1724. The latter syllable of the name Spottawood, latinized forms with the former part the name of the county of Spottoylvania. To feed the mines the timber of the country for many miles around had been cut down, and in its place there had arisen a dense undergrowth of low-limbed and scraggy pines, stiff and bristling chinkapins, scrub-oaks, and hazel. It is a region of gloom and the shadow of death. Manoeuvring here was necessarily out of the question, and only Indian tactics told. The troops could only receive direction by a poi