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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.52 (search)
, and blue, displayed in separate bands or bars, with a sprinkling of stars—the old thirteen. I think, says my venerable friend and correspondent, you knew all these men as well as I, for they were of our best citizens. I know not if any of the old troopers survive, excepting Samuel S. Cottrell, Robert B. Snead, John O. Lay, Bob and Bunny Crouch, and myself. Time tells a mighty tale! The old trooper refers in loving terms to the officers who commanded respectively the Henrico and Chesterfield dragoons. There was, he says, a mutual understanding between them and the captain of our company to dine every recurring Fourth of July, 22d of February, and 19th of October, at such places as each commander in turn might designate by a card of invitation. Our dining-days found us sometimes at Buchanan's Spring or Fairfield, or Bloody Run, or Ritchie's Spring, or the Farmer's Hotel, in Manchester. Oh! these were bully times. They were, indeed. Do not the poets feign the old times t