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true condition of affairs inside the enemy’s 
lines and gave directions tor the attack. I 
will always remember this courageous and 
patriotic action of yours with gratitude, 
and beg you to accept this watch and chain 
which I send you by General J. W. For¬ 
syth, as a memento of September 10, 1864.” 
I am, very respectfully, 
Your obedient servant, 
Philip H. Sheridan, Major-General. 
To Miss Rebecca Wright, now Bonsai, of 
Washington, D. C. 
Rebecca Wright’s parents were Qua¬ 
kers. She taught school in Winchester 
at the time of the battle. She has a po¬ 
sition in the Treasury Department in 
Washington, D. C., given her by Gen¬ 
eral Grant, while he was President, 
which she still retains. 
They were so good to us, and you 
ought to have seen Fred smile while he 
ate their apple pie! Kin shook hands 
and behaved like the gentleman he is; 
they just stuffed him, and he wagged 
his tail and had a good time. We show¬ 
ed them our carriage and camping out¬ 
fit, and they said: “Well, you are Yan¬ 
kees!” When we went away Miss Eli- 
san made us promise to visit the Natural 
Bridge of Virginia on our way south, 
because “Frankie said she had always 
wanted to see it,” and added, that as it 
would be an extra expense, it was her 
treat, and I must let her pay for it. We 
thought it was lovely of her, and I told 
Fred we must start or they would give 
us the house. Miss Elisan laughed and 
said: “Thee would find it very heavy!” 
How little we know in this world, when 
we do a kind act, how or when it will 
come back to us! Your friends are the 
ones who are helping us along, and it is 
16 years ago when they made that visit 
to New York. 
We drove around Winchester and past 
the spot where Phil Sheridan started on 
his famous ride. He heard the cannon 
with their 
Terrible grumble and rumble and roar, 
Telling the battle was on once more. 
It is a lovely city, the houses, the old 
and the new, are so refined, and every 
one has a smile and a kind word. From 
there we went on what they call the 
“Valley Pike.” It is a toll, and all the 
roads in Virginia fit to travel on they 
call pikes. I don’t wonder that people 
rode on horseback so much. At the 
place where we stopped to buy grain for 
our horses the man brought us some 
delicious ice water and told us about 
Sheridan’s ride, and said that we were 
going on the same road. Fred re¬ 
marked: 
“If he went through in so short a 
time I guess he did not stop to pay toll!” 
How that man did laugh! He knew 
how many gates are closed in all those 
miles, and only open when the pocket- 
book does. We are south for sure! Pigs 
all over! Every family has about 15, 
and they scoop out a place as big as a 
room and wallow in it. The corn is 12 
feet high, and their main crops are corn 
and wheat. They are putting in the 
wheat now (July 26), but lots of hay has 
not been cut yet. They have a few oats 
and not much fruit, except apples. Very 
few peaches. They plow with a left- 
handed plow, and sometimes we pass 
places where there are lots of darkies 
and then again where they seem all 
white. They do not make sluiceways, 
but have a hollow for the water to run 
and you go into it and then out of it, 
bumpty bump! They have lovely places 
way back in the fields, and fine old trees 
around the houses, but very few homes 
along the roadsides. I tell Fred that 
“everybody takes his hat off to me!” 
Such a change from the Dutchmen in 
Pennsylvania. Near Staunton we had 
such a nice camp for over Sunday. They 
are kind people who own the place. The 
man brought me a little basket of 
peaches, the first we had had. He keeps 
Belgian hares and sells them in Staun¬ 
ton for $3 each. His wife takes charge 
of the poultry for a wealthy man; she 
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made over $100 on them last year. The 
fowls are Game, and they kill the Bel¬ 
gian hares quite young. They have a 
nice place, and he spoke of the people 
who asked for leave to camp on his 
grounds and who helped themselves to 
his fruit and used up the fence rails for 
kindling wood, and lit their fires when¬ 
ever they took a fancy to—just acted 
as if they owned the place, so that final¬ 
ly he only let those in that he thought 
would behave, for his place was large 
and he could not keep track of them. I 
thought, probably, that was why some 
people objected to us. Last year he ran 
a large milk route into Staunton, and 
his customers paid up on Saturdays. One 
week he had over $200. He was too late 
for the bank, and so as part had to be 
paid out Monday, he brought it all home. 
Sunday morning he was up before day¬ 
light, and was sitting milking his first 
cow when he heard a slight noise. He 
looked up and there stood a man, mask¬ 
ed and holding a pistol at his head, and 
another man, also masked, was back of 
him, so he could not get out. The man 
who was beside him told him to “Hold 
up,” and he said, “I never did anything 
more lively in my life; and I tell you it 
was a strange feeling I had as they took 
that money from me; but I was glad to 
get off with my life, and since then I 
cannot get over a queer feeling if I am 
around after dark, even with this big 
dog I keep now, who will let no one 
come around after dark.” He took Fred 
all over his place and they had a beau¬ 
tiful view of Staunton and the Catholic 
church there. He said it was one of the 
finest buildings in Virginia. Then he 
showed us two hills named for two girls 
who in the old days were killed by the 
Indians. They asked us how we liked 
the Shenandoah Valley. We had passed 
such beautiful land on the Mohawk and 
Cherry valleys that we were a little dis¬ 
appointed in the Shenandoah. Its nat¬ 
ural beauty is great, but the land is not 
what it was before the war. The farms 
lack the air of tarift ana comfortable 
incomes that are noticeable in the Sus¬ 
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ties we have passed through. 
The way they ride on horseback when 
drawing a load seems strange to us. 
They put five horses on a load of hay or 
grain and have a big thrashing machine 
and engine. They get 60 cents per 
bushel for wheat and raise a good many 
apples that are shipped to Europe. 
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