(Cover Jackson being an "odd-duck" from the previous chapter)
Jackson dies at Chancellorsville, the army returns to Culpeper. The army protects Culpeper citizens, even Unionists.
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Battle of Brandy Station (Pp - 242 - 254)
What happens to Robert E. Lee's son Rooney? (p.256) What does Lee tell Jefferson Davis?
What is Aunt Sally angry about? (p. 261)
Chapter 10 - Return of the Yankees - July 24 to October 1 1863
Who protects Culpeper Confederates? How about Unionists? (p.246-265)
Jeb Stuart's personality (Pp. 267)
What besides food is Lee's army short of?
morale/desertion - 300 men from where desert? What are their occupations? (p. 268)
What does Union Lieutenant Colonel Rufus B. Dawes do? How do northern Culpeper women feel about it? (p. 270)
What are Union soldiers' two differing opinions about the "children of Ham?" (p. 271)
What happened to 12 of 13 of Sally Armstrong's family's slaves? (p. 271)
Why doesn't Old John Kelly's slave, James, want to be liberated? (p. 272)
How does Charles Francis Adams, Jr. feel about Virginia? What does he do (as Rufus dawes did)?
What does Sally Armstrong do to make the days shorter? (p. 276)
What are Culpeper farmers, including Unionist John Minor Botts, selling to the Confederate army? (p. 276)
Sept 13th - the Yankees are back. U.S. cavalry is 50% larger than Jeb Stuart's. Longstreet has been sent to Tennessee to assist western armies.
Union artillery pushes Confederates back to the Courthouse. Where do Culpeper citizens hide? Who leads the Union ground assault?
How do northern soldiers describe Culpeper? (p. 280)
George Meade's army outnumbers Lee's 90,000 to 50,000, but Meade will not cross the Rapidan to engage Lee. He will winter in Culpeper.
Prices are 50-60 cents for a lb of butter 25 cents. That's $12 in today's money.
What was the Culpeper harvest like?
What do the U.S. volunteers think about conscripts? Why doesn't Meade allow conscripts to do picket duty? What is a "bounty jumper." How are the dealt with? (p. 283)
How is General William French compared to Charles Adams, Jr. What must Culpeper citizens do for him to protect them?
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