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Quaker Guns at Manassas

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Autograph Letter incomplete, 4p. octavo, Fairfax Court House, March 23, 1862, on Winfield Scott patriotic stationary, and reads in part: "...We started from Camp California the 10th of this month expecting to have a brush with the rebels....We went to the rebel huts and ransacked them, it was a regular city there were about 500 log houses that they had lived in and had now deserted leaving everything behind one of the boys brought a firkin of butter which had never been opened. We found pails and brought them full of sugar penuts & c...Manassas was about 4 miles from there so some of the boys and myself thought we would go and see the wonderful Fortifications there. We at least got there. There was one large Fort where there had been about 100 guns and all around there was about 50 sham forts where there were logs and stove pipe put on teh forts they had placed a mans suit sutffed with straw and a stick with a baynoet on it for some of our soldiers would be fools enough to shoot at it..." VG.

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