Word: blackford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Minor Blackford, 2nd Virginia Cavalry, kissed his wife goodbye, grabbed his double-barreled shotgun, mounted his "very fine roan" and rode out of Lynchburg, Va. one morning in June...
Some four years later, the Confederacy and most of the 2nd Virginia Cavalry were dead. But young Captain Blackford survived. He lived on long enough to edit, with his wife Susan Leigh Blackford, the letters they had exchanged during the war. Privately printed in two volumes in 1894, they are now abridged by Grandson Charles Minor Blackford...
...Yankee Twang. Captain Blackford, meanwhile, had fought at Bull Run, bivouacked along the Rappahannock, marched to the Confederacy's high-water mark at Gettysburg and returned with the ebbing tide. In victory or defeat, he decided, Pennsylvania held no charms for a Virginian. "Never in my life have I seen so many ugly women." Furthermore, the "men, women and children are all afflicted with a yankee twang...
...Recorder. Blackford wrote home as often and as fully as possible, realizing that impressions faded quickly and eager to preserve as much of his experience as he could. "I fear all these stories bore you," Blackford apologized to his wife. But 20th Century readers will be grateful for the sharp little anecdotes and graphic glimpses on almost every page. Samples...
...Another Blackford Civil War volume appeared in 1945: War Years with Jeb Stuart, by Lieut. Colonel W. W. Blackford, brother of Captain Charles...