Culpeper County, Virginia
New 131
Page Booklet
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Early days in Culpeper
County, VA, are recalled through a mixture of colorful tales and
factual data in this New 131 page booklet, printed on 8.5"
x 11" opaque white 60# paper, with parchtex card stock covers.
The front cover is protected with a vinyl sheet. The
spiral-bound booklet is comprised of excerpts from
Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia,
compiled and published by Raleigh Travers
Green in Culpeper in 1900.
Communities currently
listed for this area by the National Association of Counties include:
Boston, Brandy Sta, Brandy Station,
Culpeper (County Seat), Elkwood, Jeffersonton, Lignum, Mitchells,
Raccoon Ford, Rapidan, Reva, Richardsville, Rixeyville, Stevensburg,
and Winston
This booklet will
enlighten the historian, delight the genealogist, and entertain
the Civil War or Revolutionary War buff. Here are two excerpts from
the introductory chapter:
The corps (minutemen
in the Revolutionary War) were dressed in green hunting shirts with
the words "Libery or Death" in large letters on their
bosoms. A wag on seeing this, remarked it was too severe for him;
but that he was willing to enlist if the words were altered to "Liberty
or Be Crippled."
Jno. Gillison ...
was struck ... by a musket ball; the surgeon examined the wound
... and then, lifting up his hands, exclaimed "Oh captain!
It is a noble wound, right in the middle of the forehead, and no
harm done!"
Some of the various
subjects include: The Culpeper of Today (1900, that is) with names
of many noted residents; The Culpeper Minute Men including a brief
excerpt from a Revolutionary War Journal, an incident in the life
of Gen. Mercer, The Civil War Roll of the Culpeper Minute Men and
the Roll of 1898; Culpeper in the Civil War, including a Roster
of the Little Fork Rangers, Companies C and E, Seventh Virginia
Infantry, Company B, Thirteenth Virginia Infantry, and a long list
of other veterans with their regiments and brief records; Civil
War Engagements in Culpeper County, involving General John Pope
and "Stonewall" Jackson; the Battle of Cedar Run; the
Battle of Brandy Station; the Brandy Rifles; Company B, 6th Virginia
Cavalry; the Baptists of Culpeper (written by Rev. E.W. Winfrey
and H.C. Burrows); Notes for Genealogists, an alphabetical listing
of names with spouses, children, etc.; Alphabetical Marriage records
from 1781 to 1825; a census of pensioners from the Revolutionary
War as published in 1841; Culpeper's 1765 protest against the Stamp
Act, signed by justices of the peace; a first hand account by Judge
D.A. Grimsley on Culpeper as a Battle Ground
Wouldn't this
make a unique gift?
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